What is an American City?

By Michael Katz
“The April 25, 2006, death of Jane Jacobs was one of the events that prompted me to rethink my narrative of recent urban history. If any one person can be anointed patron saint of urban studies, Jacobs deserves the crown. Her 1961 Death and Life of Great American Cities must be the most [...]

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Le Brésil, ce géant entravé

Un modèle menacé para la dépendance finacière
English version here
Par Renaud Lambert
En Equateur, grâce à une politique qu’il qualifie de « sociale et solidaire », et qui renforce le rôle de l’Etat, M. Rafael Correa a été réélu dès le premier tour de l’élection présidentielle du 26 avril. Au Panamá, le 3 mai, après le mandat décevant en matière de réduction [...]

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Capital and History

By Robert Kurz
“The confidence in capitalism is apparently unshakeable; also on the Left. Out of all crises it will rise like a phoenix from ashes and will start a new recovery. (…)
This understanding does not take the internal dynamics of capitalism seriously. There is also another conception. Accordingly, exploitation exists actually only in the historical [...]

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Whose Fault Is It?

By Anselm Jappe
“But what if this financialization , far from ruining the real economy, had on the contrary, helped it to survive beyond its expiry date? If it had breathed life into a dying corpse? Why is one sure that capitalism itself could be exempt from the cycle of birth, growth and death? Could it [...]

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Le dernier stade du capitalisme d’Etat

Rober Kurz
November 28, 2008
Read it at EXIT

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The Unfolding Crisis and the Relevance of Marx

By István Mészáros
“I insisted that, compared to the crisis we were actually heading for, the Great World Economic Crisis of 1929-1933 would look like the Vicar’s Tea Party.”
Read it here: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/meszaros041108.html

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