Costas Lapavitsas on Cost of Living Crisis and the State of Capitalism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- One of the worlds leading Marxist economists talks to us about the recent problems of inflation, class politics, and the global economy.
Check out Lapavitsas's latest collaborative efforts here:
"The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony", with with the EReNSEP Writing Collective (2023) (www.versobooks...)
"The Cost of Living Crisis: (and how to get out of it)", with James Meadway and Doug Nicholls (2023) (www.versobooks...)
Working class today? Not identity, try this: If your income is from wages, benefits, pension - not from what you own, know or are - and you *can not convert that income into capital ownership* - you are “working class”.
Capital is _not_ money. It’s money converted into _ownership_ of something (also intangibles) that “makes money” as an asset created & protected by law.
A negative pile of money (dept owed to you) is _way more powerful_ for influencing politics, than a pile of it from the proverbial lottery ticket. It makes you a millionaire a short while, but NOT a capitalist… 😅