The articles collected in this second issue of The Commoner deal with some aspects of the multi faced reality of “enclosures”. The reality of enclosures, in the Marxist tradition also referred to as ...

Sir, Proposed Republican tax cuts are indeed self-defeating as Daniel Mauro suggests (Letters, November 22), to the extent that the resulting slight increase in the marginal net return on investment ...

How is labour to be conceptualised in the present context? On the one hand, there are the claims of the new economy that old forms of labour are being transformed and reformed; on the other, there is ...

The dictatorship of corruption and mediocrity that I discussed at length in the lecture that I delivered at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs on Saturday, July 13, 2013 and that was ...

Karl Marx (Marx, 1867), in Capital Vol. 1, identifies the various sources of primitive accumulation that allowed the European capital to spread globally, specially the colonial plunder, public debt ...

Enrique S. Rivera is a historian, journalist, and documentary film producer. He teaches at UCLA, and his recent book, The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery ...

Things go burst. A man wages a war so he can change the way things are done. During the war, people are killed for what they think is a justified war. He wins the war and assumes political power. And ...