[...] capitalists, as we earlier saw, have a choice as to what they reinvest in: they can reinvest in the expansion of production or they can use their wealth to buy up assets, such as stocks and shares, property, art objects or shares in some speculative enterprise such as a private equity company…
[...] What is called a crisis of 'under-consumption' results when there is not enough effective demand to absorb the commodities produced.
Workers spending their wages is one source of effective demand. But the total wage bill is always less than the total capital in circulation (otherwise there…
But why this revolutionary impulse in the heart of capitalism and why is capitalism so different from other modes of production? Human beings are clearly fascinated by the perpetual pursuit of novelty, but the social and cultural conditions under which such a fascination can become a central drivin…