William Briggs, "Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis: The Past is Prologue"
English | ISBN: 1138344281 | 2019 | 208 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Will capitalism survive forever?

Costas Panayotakis, "The capitalist mode of destruction: Austerity, ecological crisis and the hollowing out of democracy "
English | ISBN: 1526144506 | 2021 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book interprets contemporary capitalism's economic, ecological and democratic crises as manifestations of a previously unrecognized contradiction: over time the benefits from capitalism's technological dynamism tend to decline even as its threats for humanity and the planet escalate. To explain this contradiction, Panayotakis rethinks the production and distribution of surplus in capitalist societies. Identifying the public sector and households as sites of surplus production as important as the capitalist workplace, this book attributes capitalism's increasing destructiveness to working people's lack of control over the surplus they produce. Only a classless society, in which working people democratically control the surplus, can reverse our current trajectory. Identifying such a democratic classless society as the essence of the communist ideal, The capitalist mode of destruction shows this ideal to be as relevant as ever.

The Critique of Commodification - Contours of a Post-Capitalist Society
pdf | 7.65 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0197576761 | Author: Hermann, Christoph; | Year: 2021

Christoph Hermann, "The Critique of Commodification: Contours of a Post-Capitalist Society"
English | ISBN: 0197576761 | 2021 | 240 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In recent years activists around the globe have challenged the commodification of water, education, health care, and other essential goods, while academics have warned from unintended effects when everything can be bought and sold. But what is commodification? And what is the problem with

Matt Spivey, "Re-Reading Economics in Literature: A Capitalist Critical Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1793634475 | 2020 | 140 pages | PDF | 1381 KB
In Austrian economic thought, "human action" guides all social and cultural experience. For both the real world and for fictional texts, this starting point can illuminate literature in new ways and offer valuable insight for literary critics who have previously been beholden to Marxism and other anti-capitalist perspectives. In Re-Reading Economics in Literature: A Capitalist Critical Perspective, Matt Spivey posits that in its relationship to literature, Austrian economic criticism entails a methodology that embraces the following: 1) an analytical reading that promotes both the individual artist as the creator of literature and the individual reader as the consumer of literature; 2) an understanding of the entrepreneurial quality of literature, that capitalism is a system that embraces creativity and evolution in the marketplace; and 3) a recognition of subjective value as fundamental to human choice and action, both in art and in the real world. In addition to the study of the individual, Spivey also incorporates the concepts of business cycles, government intervention, social dynamics, and technological evolution in his analysis. Scholars of literary studies and economics will find this book particularly useful.