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Karl Marx, radical environmentalist
International Socialist Review columnist Phil Gasper in Socialist Worker US challenges the myth that Marxism has nothing useful to say about the environment – with help from the old man himself. Karl...
View ArticleThe Communist Manifesto: we have a world to win!
“A SPECTER is haunting Europe–the specter of Communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter.” So warned Karl Marx and Frederick Engels’ The...
View ArticleAcademics mystifying Marx
I USED to wonder why Fred Engels devoted so much effort to writing his 400 page book Anti-Dühring wrote Chris Harman in Socialist Worker Review in 1989 and reprinted in Marxist Internet Archive. Who,...
View ArticleSome random thoughts on Marx, absolute rent and the mining industry
Marx struggled with the idea of absolute rent. Put simply it is the component of the rent payment the owner receives for just being the owner of the land. We need to remember we are dealing here with...
View ArticleErnest Mandel on Marx and rent
In writing about Marx, Ernest Mandel says this about Marx’s thinking on rent. The labour theory of value defines value as the socially necessary quantity of labour determined by the average...
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Some Basic Marxist Concepts to Help Understand Income Tax
Mark Konza, Deputy Commissioner of Taxation, told the Australian Financial Review Tax Reform Summit that ‘in 40 years of tax work he had not heard references to Marx…’ (Neil Chenoweth, ‘Equity sore...
View ArticleMarx and taxing economic rent
This is very much a draft paper. I argue that taxing resource rents in Australia involves a battle between the state in its Commonwealth and State and Territory variations as landlord and mining...
View ArticleMarx and rent – taxing resource rents in Australia
In this paper I use Marx’s analysis of rent to try to understand the complexities associated with the attempts to tax resource rents in Australia. My aim is to dissect ground rent (what the landlord...
View ArticleCleaning the Muck of Ages from the Windows Into the Soul of Tax
This academic article of mine was published on Monday. It is about Marx’s methods and tax. ABSTRACT The aim of this paper is to provide readers with an insight into Marx’s methods as a first step to...
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