When I began writing about class in the mid-1970s, I saw Marxism as a comprehensive paradigm confronting positivist social science. 1 I argued that Marxism had distinctive epistemological premises and distinctive methodological approaches which were fundamentally opposed to the prevalent practices of mainstream social science. While I argued that this battle should be engaged on an empirical as...

Focus on smart specialization is a key element of regional development strategizing in Ukraine, which, for example, reflected the State Regional Development Strategy 2021-2027. But comparative analysis individual indicators economic EU, USA and China shows that itself not competitive advantage global scale. At same time, researchers note there gap between theory practice basis specialization. A...

Although it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to reconsider and problematize Buddhist conceptions of “freedom” and “agency,” the thought traditions of Asian Buddhism have for many centuries struggled with questions related to the issue of “liberation”—along with its fundamental ontological, epistemological and ethical implications. With the development of Marxist thought in the...

Be Careful with Marxism! Notes on the Margins of Tomasz Banach’s Work Catyline and Tabulae Novae. The Problem Universal Indebtedness Utilitas Rei Publicae in Cicero’s Speeches (Warszawa: C.H. Beck, 2022, pp. 87, ISBN 978-83-8291-242-5) In interesting useful monograph promises debt relief (tabulae novae) which Catiline tried to win favour Roman society, reader can find statements author expresse...

The neoliberal period consists of the application a series restructuring policies, including rapid change economy, politics, culture, and social environment. Socialist movements are at forefront opposition to which have been applied in many countries after 1980 almost all over world 2000s. Marxism was marginalized crisis this on counter neoliberalism. Intra-Marxist discussions also led emergenc...

While dealing with the historiography of post-independence African economy, the writer has made attempts to consult sources of different interests. Majority of the sources consulted for this purpose are books written by Marxist scholars. Thence, they reflect the maxims of socialism at continental and state level in Africa. Their explanations rest on the cardinal causes for the underdevelopment ...

This paper suggests that LIS might benefit from critical political economy as a way of theorizing and responding to enclosures of information commons. The autonomist Marxist re-invigoration of ‘primitive accumulation’ offers a register for apprehending contemporary erosions of the commons. Autonomist Marxism also helps conceptualize resistance to enclosures. Résumé:

This article outlines a new approach to the law of political economy as form transformative law, that combines focus on function with concept encapsulating triangular dialectics between form-giving prestation material substance is oriented against, and transcendence legal forms—that is, rendering compatibility forms. Transformative thereby serves an alternative both economics recently emerging ...