Review of Kliman book
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The Marxist Humanist Initiative have republished our review of Kliman's book in the January Socialist Standard on their site here (together with one by the "Socialist Studies" group):
Reviews of MHI pamphlet: “Can Income Redistribution Rescue Capitalism?”
So to try and summariseUnderconsumptionists or overproductionists consist ofMonthly Review, Magdoff and Bellamy-Foster following Baran and SweezyThe leftDisequilibrium theorists of crisis consist ofAndrew Kliman, Marxist-HumanistsSPGBSocialist Studies
I'm not sure Kliman or the MHI would describe themselves as "disequilibium theorists" (except insofar as every crisis is a reflection of a disequilibium; we ourselves have preferred "disproportionality"). They are more into the falling rate of profit. But all will be revealed when our long-discussed interview with Kliman appears in the March Socialist Standard, though there will be a taster in the February issue out on Friday on this debate in New York.
jondwhite wrote:Socialist StudiesWho are they?
ALB wrote:I'm not sure Kliman or the MHI would describe themselves as "disequilibium theorists" (except insofar as every crisis is a reflection of a disequilibium; we ourselves have preferred "disproportionality"). They are more into the falling rate of profit. But all will be revealed when our long-discussed interview with Kliman appears in the March Socialist Standard, though there will be a taster in the February issue out on Friday on this debate in New York.What happened to the interview Kliman?
DJP wrote:It was quite long so I'm guessing it will be in next months…I'm not on about the book review but the promised interview with Kliman.
That's what I'm talking about. I interviewed Andrew Kliman but the resulting article is probably about 4 pages long. I'm guessing they're waiting till there's enough room to put it in..
We get a mention in SPEW's review of his book: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/17458
Brian wrote:We get a mention in SPEW's review of his book: http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/17458This was already picked up at the time:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/general-discussion/millie-and-underconsumptionismThe Kliman interview was due to appear in this month's Socialist Standard but was held over by articles on current events (anniversary of Miners Strike, Ukraine, Davos). It's due to appear now in the April issue.
Kliman mentions the April Socialist Standard and our interview with him on his facebook page.https://www.facebook.com/andrew.kliman.9?fref=ts
There are three Marxist humanists tendencies at the present time. All of them are based on the same mistakes made by Raya Dunayeskaya. They did like CLR James who rejected the vanguard party, and was never able to break away from Leninism and Bolshevism, but, he was able to break away from Hegelianism, but, the Marxist humanists did not. I think Paul Mattick did hit the nail on the head, this is what he said:https://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1958/dunayevskaya.htmNews and Letter created a cult around Raya Dunayeskaya and her writtings This is what Dunayeskaya wrote about the decline of the rate of profits:https://www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1947/decline-profit.htm
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