This article explores the history of the renowned world economic and political reformist, Karl Marx with a special focus on the social class concept. It also discusses to what extent that the Marx’s concept of social class struggle is capable to provide a way out to the proletariats, to free...

This paper examines Marx's views on globalization and its supposed inevitability, and contends that they underwent a substantial evolution and revision after the publication of the Communist Manifesto. In the case of China, a prime example of the Asiatic mode of production, Marx even doubted...

Le libéralisme est né comme une utopie au sens de Ricœur. De ce fait, utopie de la monarchie absolue, il est devenu l'idéologie du capitalisme. La pensée de Marx est avant tout une critique du capitalisme dont l'essentiel du propos porte sur les rapports sociaux au sein du capitalisme. Son...

We introduce the ‘Idea of Marx' to put into question events and discourses that emerged during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and examine how these coalesced into a particular economic imaginary of ‘recovery'. The ‘engine' which will allow us to move in the ‘idea of Marx' goes by the...

This work is a critical introduction to Volume I of Karl Marx's "Capital," based on my lecture notes for undergraduate economics students at the Universidade de Brasília (UnB). It is a non-Marxist economist's perspective on the key points of this important, yet difficult-to-read work. My goal...

This paper examines the validity of economic thoughts of Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes for the present time. The paper compares Marx and Keynes, and aims to show that the difference in treatment of the major economic issues between them is not as significant as one may expect. Marx and...

Marx's and Keynes's analyses of capitalism complement each other well. In a rather general model including the public sector and international trade it is shown that the labour theory of value provides a sound foundation to reveal the factors influencing employment. Workers buy "necessaries" out...

The paper deals with some theoretical and analytical issues raised by a recent book by Trigg on Marx's schemes of reproduction. The paper presents a generalized model of expanded reproduction and concentrates on the attempt to develop Marx's schemes along Keynesian lines. Trigg tries to develop...

A formalisation of Elster's interpretation of Marx's theory of revolution is presented in terms of a one sector model with continuous substitution, land as a factor of production and a particular population theory. A justification for calling such a model Marxian is given. Then, it is shown that...