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Join us for a discussion of Henryk Grossman’s 'The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crisis'
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Henryk Grossman was the most important Marxist economist of the twentieth century.
The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crisis was Grossman’s most important, influential, and also most denounced work. As official Communist economic thought was petrifying, to comply with the needs of the Stalinist state in Russia, his book challenged the developing dogma. Combining Marx's method and insights with a comprehensive assessment of the very substantial literature on crisis theory, Grossman demonstrated how the capitalist system, even under supposedly ideal conditions, will break down economically. Grossman’s recovery of Marx’s explanations for capitalism’s crises and tendency to break down is as timely as ever, and thanks to Jairus Banaji and Rick Kuhn, this wonderful, first full English translation is now available as an affordable paperback.
haymarketbooks.org/books/1961-henryk-grossman-works-volume-3
The 'Law of Accumulation' is the third of four volumes of Grossman’s works, published in the Historical Materialism Book Series.
Speakers:
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Eleanor Morley is a socialist activist in Sydney, Australia. She is on the editorial committee of socialist newspaper Red Flag https://redflag.org.au/.
Rick Kuhn is the editor of Henryk Grossman Works, for each volume of which he has written an introduction. He has also published on other aspects of Marxist theory and Australian political economy and labour history. A union and movement activist for decades, he is a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia. In 2007 Rick’s Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism (https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p073526) won the Deutscher Prize.
Michael Roberts is a British Marxist economist and author of several books on Marxist economics and trends in the world economy, in particular, The Long Depression (2016), World in Crisis (2018) and Marx 200 (2018). His latest book with G Carchedi just published is Capitalism in the 21st Century (Pluto 2022). He blogs regularly on economics at: thenextrecession.wordpress.com - and see 'Books of the Year ' thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/books-of-the-year-2
PLEASE NOTE: All HM Online events are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help us enormously in covering the costs of putting of this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM has had a very tough period since the beginning of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and bank balance is sinking all the time, with very little revenue coming in. If you can make a contribution to keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
Join us for a discussion of Henryk Grossman’s 'The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crisis'
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Henryk Grossman was the most important Marxist economist of the twentieth century.
The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown of the Capitalist System, Being also a Theory of Crisis was Grossman’s most important, influential, and also most denounced work. As official Communist economic thought was petrifying, to comply with the needs of the Stalinist state in Russia, his book challenged the developing dogma. Combining Marx's method and insights with a comprehensive assessment of the very substantial literature on crisis theory, Grossman demonstrated how the capitalist system, even under supposedly ideal conditions, will break down economically. Grossman’s recovery of Marx’s explanations for capitalism’s crises and tendency to break down is as timely as ever, and thanks to Jairus Banaji and Rick Kuhn, this wonderful, first full English translation is now available as an affordable paperback.
haymarketbooks.org/books/1961-henryk-grossman-works-volume-3
The 'Law of Accumulation' is the third of four volumes of Grossman’s works, published in the Historical Materialism Book Series.
Speakers:
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Eleanor Morley is a socialist activist in Sydney, Australia. She is on the editorial committee of socialist newspaper Red Flag https://redflag.org.au/.
Rick Kuhn is the editor of Henryk Grossman Works, for each volume of which he has written an introduction. He has also published on other aspects of Marxist theory and Australian political economy and labour history. A union and movement activist for decades, he is a member of Socialist Alternative in Australia. In 2007 Rick’s Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism (https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p073526) won the Deutscher Prize.
Michael Roberts is a British Marxist economist and author of several books on Marxist economics and trends in the world economy, in particular, The Long Depression (2016), World in Crisis (2018) and Marx 200 (2018). His latest book with G Carchedi just published is Capitalism in the 21st Century (Pluto 2022). He blogs regularly on economics at: thenextrecession.wordpress.com - and see 'Books of the Year ' thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2022/12/22/books-of-the-year-2
PLEASE NOTE: All HM Online events are free to register, however we would ask comrades who are able to please consider making a donation, which would help us enormously in covering the costs of putting of this programme of events. Like all left organisations, HM has had a very tough period since the beginning of 2020 and our budgets are very stretched and bank balance is sinking all the time, with very little revenue coming in. If you can make a contribution to keep us afloat, please don’t hesitate!
