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RadioRaheem84
4th February 2010, 19:28
I've noticed that the one thing we lack is practical discourse that shows that our ideas are superior and truly critical of capitalism. For instance, is there any leftist publication out there (that isn't liberal/progressive) that tackles some of the weightier practical issues of globalization; finance, business strategies, etc. The Monthly Review crowd is really good at this as they offer the people a chance to really understand some of the more complicated nuanced aspects of finance capitalism. With their help I've been able to engage some of my more finance minded friends and defenders of the free market in the real sense.

I feel as though we're sort of wasting our time debating Libertarians and philosophical proponents of the free market. We know and the real capitalist out there engaging the market know that what Friedman and other free market enthusiasts consider the free market does not and will never exist.
Not that its a total waste, as our efforts break down the foundation for which the real capitalists cower to when their practices are met with criticism, but the capitalists also toss us graphs, stats, quantitative analysis, and whatever else that's wonkish in order to show us that that our ideals are not only outdated but dogmatic.

Apparently, in Venezuela there is a whole ministry set up to teach workers the issues of self management, how to effectively run a cooperative. They have the info. so how can I get a hold of that? Has anyone done a study on the recovered factories in Argentina and how the workers have manged to run the factories better than the previous owners?

I just finished Section C of the Anarchist Faq titled the Myth of Capitalist Economies and the majority of the people quoted were anti-free market neo-Keynesians (oh and Noam Chomsky). Most of the practical critques of free market capitalism are coming from liberals, progressives and neo-keynesians like Joseph Stiglitz.

I hope that I am wrong and I am just not looking in the right places. Any thoughts?

bailey_187
4th February 2010, 21:02
The British newpaper Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! usualy has some good articles althouhg not that frequent

There is also the journal called Capital and Class by the Conference of Socialist Economists

Im not quite sure what it is your looking for though?

RadioRaheem84
4th February 2010, 21:40
ABC of the Financial Crisis by Fred Magdoff

The Great Financial Collapse by John Bellamy Foster

...is what I am talking about.

I think there was a study cyu posted in an another forum that showed that collective enterprises were more stable and profitable than private ones.

The Douche
6th February 2010, 02:03
You speak spanish right? Have you thought about trying to get in touch/get the materials from venezuela?