A Carlo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6089610 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Carlo |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlo |
| SIGNATURE | CARLO A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contradictions of Perestroika
At the beginning of 1986, reflecting a common position at the time, one of the leading authorities on the USSR and Eastern Europe saw Gorbachev as nothing more than an updated version of Brezhnev. This was based in part on the personal history of the new Soviet leader, who for years had been responsible for the Party's agricultural policies. Such a critical position could have been entrusted only to a faithful Party member. Despite lingering skep…
Afghanistan, Poland and Peaceful Coexistence
The recent Afghan crisis has jolted the Western world. Many in the West fear an irreversible Soviet turn away from peaceful coexistence and toward expansionism in which Angola and Ethiopia were the logical prelude to actions of direct annexation. Several observers have emphasized growing Soviet difficulty with oil supplies, which could become serious by 1985. It is difficult to determine the extent of bad faith in this obsession with Soviet aggre…
The Crisis of the State in the Thirties
The 1929 crisis represents a break in the history of contemporary capitalism. The challenge to the State by economic events precipitates a profound transformation. Generally, interpretations of the Great Crisis fall into four types. 1. The Marxist interpretation in terms of the tendential fall of the rate of profit, which, however, finds in the Great Crisis its clearest refutation. According to Marx, this law is a result of the increase of the pr…
The Crisis of Bureaucratic Collectivism
For the communist countries of Eastern Europe, 1976 was a serious turning point that can only be compared to 1956. There was no lack of violent upheaval (Poland) but the real problems stemmed from the economy. More than a decade had passed since 1965, the year of the reforms, and it is now possible to evaluate their impact. Before doing so, however, it is necessary to provide a brief analysis of the situation of Comecon countries in 1976. German …
The Italian Crisis and the Role of the Left
The role of the Italian Left must be analyzed in terms of the causes of the Italian crisis. There are three main accounts of the economic crisis. It can be seen as a result of: (a) labor struggles and subsequent rises in labor cost; (b) the growing instability of the Italian economy caused by inadequate planning; and (c) Italy becoming an underdeveloped country. (a) Strangely enough, both reformists and ouvrieristes share the first interpretation…
Weltwirtschaftsordnung und Entwicklungspolitik: Pladoyer fur Dissoziation
Dieger Senghaas. Weltwirtschaftsordnung und Entwicklungspolitik: Plädoyer für Dissoziation. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977. 358 pages
Unemployment
It is widely accepted that in monopoly capitalism there is a tendency toward growing accumulation and production without an adequate and proportional rise in employment. According to one law, a minimum increase of 4 percent in the GNP is necessary to prevent an increase in unemployment, and a much larger one to reduce it. This has been confirmed by the small recovery of 1976-77. This state of affairs, however, was already evident during the 1960s…
Imperialism, Monopolies and Inflation
The historical problem of inflation has generated a vast body of economic literature concerning its causes and possible cures. The importance of the topic and the abundance of vulgar mystifications of it necessitate its reformulation in a manner reasserting the general thesis to the effect that “modern” inflation is a result of the capitalist system in its monopoly stage (imperialism). Obviously, inflation is almost as old as money and antedates …
The Oil Crisis and the Iron Law of Underdevelopment
The recent oil crisis has produced one of the most lively debates of the postwar era. Several taboos seemed at first sight to have crumbled: the myth of unequal exchange between raw materials and finished products; the myth of the weakness and of perpetual subordination of Third World countries. With time, however, the recognition has come that the issues were not as clear as was originally thought. Thus, the idea that an oil scarcity produced th…
Sozialistische Planwirtschaft
J. Kosta, Sozialistische Planwirtschaft. Oplanden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975. 247 pages
La Transition Socialiste
Serge Christophe Kolm. La Transition Socialiste. Paris: Editions du cerf, 1977. 212 pages
The World in Depression
C.P. Kindelberger. The World in Depression. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973
Toward a Redefinition of Imperialism
When in 1913 Rosa Luxemburg published The Accumulation of Capital, one of her critics was Lenin himself who, in a letter, noted how Rosa had reintroduced the old populists' nonsense with which he had already dealt in 1899. In fact, in 1897, the Russian revolutionary had pointed out that exports do not help to realize surplus-value since they are exchanged with imports which must be subsequently absorbed by the internal market. He had thus rejecte…
Lenin on the Party
Today there is a great interest in reconstructing Lenin's thought concerning the relation between vangard and masses. Lenin's definitive theses on the problem are seen to have been outlined in his famous and much discussed work, What Is to Be Done? which, for some, remains the only scientific answer to the problem (not fully developed by Marx and Engels) of the passage from “class-in-itself” to “class-for-itself.” For others, this work, impregnat…
Unemployment
It is widely accepted that in monopoly capitalism there is a tendency toward growing accumulation and production without an adequate and proportional rise in employment. According to one law, a minimum increase of 4 percent in the GNP is necessary to prevent an increase in unemployment, and a much larger one to reduce it. This has been confirmed by the small recovery of 1976-77. This state of affairs, however, was already evident during the 1960s…
Contradictions of Perestroika
At the beginning of 1986, reflecting a common position at the time, one of the leading authorities on the USSR and Eastern Europe saw Gorbachev as nothing more than an updated version of Brezhnev. This was based in part on the personal history of the new Soviet leader, who for years had been responsible for the Party's agricultural policies. Such a critical position could have been entrusted only to a faithful Party member. Despite lingering skep…
The Crisis of Bureaucratic Collectivism
For the communist countries of Eastern Europe, 1976 was a serious turning point that can only be compared to 1956. There was no lack of violent upheaval (Poland) but the real problems stemmed from the economy. More than a decade had passed since 1965, the year of the reforms, and it is now possible to evaluate their impact. Before doing so, however, it is necessary to provide a brief analysis of the situation of Comecon countries in 1976. German …
Lenin on the Party
Today there is a great interest in reconstructing Lenin's thought concerning the relation between vangard and masses. Lenin's definitive theses on the problem are seen to have been outlined in his famous and much discussed work, What Is to Be Done? which, for some, remains the only scientific answer to the problem (not fully developed by Marx and Engels) of the passage from “class-in-itself” to “class-for-itself.” For others, this work, impregnat…
Toward a Redefinition of Imperialism
When in 1913 Rosa Luxemburg published The Accumulation of Capital, one of her critics was Lenin himself who, in a letter, noted how Rosa had reintroduced the old populists' nonsense with which he had already dealt in 1899. In fact, in 1897, the Russian revolutionary had pointed out that exports do not help to realize surplus-value since they are exchanged with imports which must be subsequently absorbed by the internal market. He had thus rejecte…
The World in Depression
C.P. Kindelberger. The World in Depression. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1973
Imperialism, Monopolies and Inflation
The historical problem of inflation has generated a vast body of economic literature concerning its causes and possible cures. The importance of the topic and the abundance of vulgar mystifications of it necessitate its reformulation in a manner reasserting the general thesis to the effect that “modern” inflation is a result of the capitalist system in its monopoly stage (imperialism). Obviously, inflation is almost as old as money and antedates …
The Oil Crisis and the Iron Law of Underdevelopment
The recent oil crisis has produced one of the most lively debates of the postwar era. Several taboos seemed at first sight to have crumbled: the myth of unequal exchange between raw materials and finished products; the myth of the weakness and of perpetual subordination of Third World countries. With time, however, the recognition has come that the issues were not as clear as was originally thought. Thus, the idea that an oil scarcity produced th…
Sozialistische Planwirtschaft
J. Kosta, Sozialistische Planwirtschaft. Oplanden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1975. 247 pages
La Transition Socialiste
Serge Christophe Kolm. La Transition Socialiste. Paris: Editions du cerf, 1977. 212 pages
Weltwirtschaftsordnung und Entwicklungspolitik: Pladoyer fur Dissoziation
Dieger Senghaas. Weltwirtschaftsordnung und Entwicklungspolitik: Plädoyer für Dissoziation. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977. 358 pages
Unemployment
It is widely accepted that in monopoly capitalism there is a tendency toward growing accumulation and production without an adequate and proportional rise in employment. According to one law, a minimum increase of 4 percent in the GNP is necessary to prevent an increase in unemployment, and a much larger one to reduce it. This has been confirmed by the small recovery of 1976-77. This state of affairs, however, was already evident during the 1960s…
The Italian Crisis and the Role of the Left
The role of the Italian Left must be analyzed in terms of the causes of the Italian crisis. There are three main accounts of the economic crisis. It can be seen as a result of: (a) labor struggles and subsequent rises in labor cost; (b) the growing instability of the Italian economy caused by inadequate planning; and (c) Italy becoming an underdeveloped country. (a) Strangely enough, both reformists and ouvrieristes share the first interpretation…
The Crisis of the State in the Thirties
The 1929 crisis represents a break in the history of contemporary capitalism. The challenge to the State by economic events precipitates a profound transformation. Generally, interpretations of the Great Crisis fall into four types. 1. The Marxist interpretation in terms of the tendential fall of the rate of profit, which, however, finds in the Great Crisis its clearest refutation. According to Marx, this law is a result of the increase of the pr…
The Crisis of Bureaucratic Collectivism
For the communist countries of Eastern Europe, 1976 was a serious turning point that can only be compared to 1956. There was no lack of violent upheaval (Poland) but the real problems stemmed from the economy. More than a decade had passed since 1965, the year of the reforms, and it is now possible to evaluate their impact. Before doing so, however, it is necessary to provide a brief analysis of the situation of Comecon countries in 1976. German …
Afghanistan, Poland and Peaceful Coexistence
The recent Afghan crisis has jolted the Western world. Many in the West fear an irreversible Soviet turn away from peaceful coexistence and toward expansionism in which Angola and Ethiopia were the logical prelude to actions of direct annexation. Several observers have emphasized growing Soviet difficulty with oil supplies, which could become serious by 1985. It is difficult to determine the extent of bad faith in this obsession with Soviet aggre…
Contradictions of Perestroika
At the beginning of 1986, reflecting a common position at the time, one of the leading authorities on the USSR and Eastern Europe saw Gorbachev as nothing more than an updated version of Brezhnev. This was based in part on the personal history of the new Soviet leader, who for years had been responsible for the Party's agricultural policies. Such a critical position could have been entrusted only to a faithful Party member. Despite lingering skep…
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