The Stuttgart conference and the debate on immigration
Position agreed by the 1907 Second International:
Any exclusions or measures against migrant workers would be, “a policy that is in conflict with the principle of proletarian solidarity.”
Theory
Marxism, Black Liberation and the Global Class Struggle – Part 2: Settler colonialism
Colonial rule often destroyed pre-existing social and economic systems, replacing them with production oriented toward the European market.
The exploitation of enslaved Africans in the Americas and of colonised populations across Asia and Africa underpinned the industrial growth of Europe.
China’s emergence as a technological leader: Implications for Global South development
China has accomplished something no other Global South country has ever previously achieved—that is, to become the technological leader across a wide range of industries, Such achievements, and the independent national development it sustains, are a strategic goal every Global South country would aspire to as a culmination of its own development process.
Marxism, Black Liberation and the Global Class Struggle
• The history of global capitalism is inseparable from the histories of slavery, colonialism, and settler colonialism.
• The Black liberation struggle — that is the struggle against the oppression of the people of non-European origin by the people of European origin — plus the struggle for liberation and Self-Determination, and the class struggle are clearly linked.
250 years of the rising organic composition of capital: The factual correctness of Marx, Smith and Keynes
The rising proportion of the economy used for investment is one of the most central predictions of Marx’s Capital—or, as he terms it, the “rising organic composition of capital.” Such a rising proportion of investment in the economy was, less systematically, also predicted by Adam Smith, and by, for somewhat different reasons, by John Maynard Keynes.
Damaging economic confusion in the West on consumption in China
An increase in the percentage of consumption in GDP will lead to a lower rate of growth of consumption, and therefore of living standards, and slower rate of GDP growth.