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Behind the Economic Turbulence

Robert Brenner, Suzi Weissman — 2019-05-11T05:38:19Z

Suzi Weissman interviewed Robert Brenner on February 10, 2019, for her “Beneath the Surface” broadcast on KPFK in Los Angeles, released on her Jacobin Radio podcast on February 12. The transcript has been edited for publication here.

- IV532 - May 2019 / United States (USA), Economy

Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016)

Robert Brenner — 2016-04-13T14:20:17Z

A brilliant Marxist historian and theorist, Ellen Meiksins Wood passed away January 14, after a long battle with cancer. As a friend and colleague Vivek Chibber stated, “Wood was a thinker of extraordinary range, writing with authority on Ancient Greece, early modern political thought, contemporary political theory, Marxism, and the structure and evolution of modern capitalism. But even more importantly, she was one of those few from the New Left who never relented in their commitment to socialist politics.” Ellen Wood is survived by her loving husband Ed Broadbent, a former Canadian MP and leader of the New Democratic Party, as well as two brothers, Peter and Robert Meiksins.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Economy

The significance of Occupy

Dan La Botz, Joel Jordan, Robert Brenner — 2012-08-29T07:22:08Z

The Occupy Movement, the first such broad, national, multi-issue, mass movement in forty years, represented a test for the revolutionary socialist left in several senses. First, would the left recognize its important and immediately move to become an active part of it and work within it to help provide leadership? Second, would the left during Occupy be able to both appreciate its strengths and develop a critique of its weaknesses and limitations? Would it as the same time be able to conduct socialist propaganda and recruit to the socialist movement? Third, would the left in retrospect be able to analyze and learn from the Occupy experience in order to prepare itself for future movements?

- Features / United States (USA), Global Justice, Features

The Economy in a World of Trouble

Robert Brenner — 2009-04-30T18:59:39Z

Robert Brenner, a leading Marxist theorist in the US, gave this interview to Hankyoreh, South Korea's leading daily paper.

- IV411 - April 2009 / Economy

Devastating Crisis Unfolds

Robert Brenner — 2008-01-19T11:22:09Z

THE CURRENT CRISIS could well turn out to be the most devastating since the Great Depression. The combination of the weakness of underlying capital accumulation and the meltdown of the banking system has made the downward slide intractable and its potential for disaster serious.

- IV396 - January 2008 / United States (USA), Economy

The economy after the boom: a diagnosis

Robert Brenner — 2002-07-22T00:00:00Z

THE LONG U.S. economic expansion has ended. Whatever the outcome of the current recession, the odds are against a return to the boom conditions of the second half of 1990s. It may indeed be difficult over the medium run to avoid stagnation/slow growth, or even worse.

- IV342 - July/August 2002 / Economy