Marxist Economics

Monetary Tightening, Inflation and Bank Failures
Michael Roberts takes on bank failures, inflation and the Fed.
Michael Roberts
March 14, 2023The Global Economy on a Roller Coaster
As persistent inflation drives economic decisions in the wealthiest economies, we are seeing more-pronounced threats of a global economic slowdown and new crises related to debt and balance of payments.
Esteban Mercatante
July 13, 2022Food, Famine, and War
If anything proves that famine and food insecurity are man-made, it is the current food crisis that is putting millions globally close to starvation.
Michael Roberts
June 7, 2022Inflation: Wages versus Profits
Here, we publish Marxist economist Michael Roberts' analysis of the relationship between wages and profit in the inflationary environment of today.
Michael Roberts
May 25, 2022Ukraine-Russia: Like an Economic Earthquake
The war in Ukraine will have damaging economic consequences across the world, and it's happening as the global economy is supposedly recovering from the pandemic slump.
Michael Roberts
March 25, 2022On the Anniversary of Its Publication, The Communist Manifesto’s Relevance Continues to Grow
As a revolutionary wave swept across Europe in 1848, led by reformers who wanted to overturn monarchies and secure their bourgeois property rights, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published The Communist Manifesto as a call to arms for a different kind of uprising: proletarian revolution, aimed at freeing humanity from wage slavery. Today is the anniversary of that publication.
Scott Cooper
February 21, 2022A World to Win: Sign Up for Left Voice’s Intro to Marxism Reading Group
Join us this spring in an Intro to Marxism Reading Group. Meetings will be held every Sunday at 6 pm ET.
Left Voice
February 10, 2022The Fed, Interest Rates, and Stagflation
Accelerating inflation may be an issue right now in the US and other recovering capitalist economies, but for capitalism, profitability is the real benchmark, and that can be hit by wage rises on the one hand and interest rises on the other.
Michael Roberts
October 8, 2021Competition, Monopoly, and Exploitation under Capitalism
While signing an executive order to expand competition and crack down on monopolistic practices, Joe Biden said that “capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation.” His statement reflects a long-standing assumption among both classical and more left-leaning economists alike that increasing monopolization is the source of increasing exploitation under capitalism. What do they get wrong? Economist Michael Roberts explains.
Michael Roberts
July 17, 2021Inflation, Interest Rates, and Debt
Accelerating inflation may be an issue right now in the U.S. and other recovering capitalist economies. But for capitalism, profitability is the real benchmark and that can be hit by wage rises on the one hand and interest rises on the other.
Michael Roberts
July 9, 2021