Archive for April 22nd, 2015
Lest we forget – Aboriginal resistance to genocide
Posted by John, April 22nd, 2015 - under Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Genocide, Resistance.
Comments: 2
Let’s unite and fight to stop the brutal war against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders now. Let’s start by stopping the genocidal closure of 150 Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. Let’s resist.
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Ernest Mandel on Marx and rent
Posted by John, April 22nd, 2015 - under Ernest Mandel, Marx, Rent.
Comments: 1
I wonder first if Mandel’s analysis of Marx’s views on rent is correct and second whether it is useful for example in understanding super profits in the mining industry in Australia and their collapse in the last year or so, presumably because with increased mechanisation mining companies have broken down the barriers that are the ‘eternal’ monopoly of for example land, state ownership of minerals and their non-renewable nature, and ensured surplus value in the mining industry ‘enters the general process of (re)distribution of profit throughout the economy as a whole thrown their profits into the surplus value production.’