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Michael Kidron

Kidron on Pearson on private foreign investment: debunking the myths

Posted on 10th July 2023 by International Socialism

Editor’s introduction I was going to open by writing that Michael Kidron (1930-2003) is best known as a Marxist economist, a leading theoretician of the International Socialist (IS) tradition and the foremost developer of the theory of the permanent arms… Continue Reading →

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The monetary and the military: revisiting Kidron’s permanent arms economy

Posted on 26th July 2021 by International Socialism

Marxist political economy has a two-fold interest in the economics of defence.1 On the one hand, Marxism has proposed explanations for the extent and scope of defence spending in contemporary capitalism, drawing on theories of imperialism.2 On the other hand,… Continue Reading →

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Michael Kidron’s Marxism

Posted on 10th January 2020 by International Socialism

A new edition of Capitalism and Theory (Haymarket, 2018) has made a ­selection of writings by Michael Kidron available to a new audience in print for the first time in decades. Kidron was a founder and important early theorist of… Continue Reading →

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Modern capitalism

Posted on 18th April 2019 by Camilla

Introduction, by Alex Callinicos This is the transcript of a talk given by Michael Kidron and of the discussion that followed on Tuesday 5 July 1977, the first of two sessions (the second was called “The Crisis”) that he gave… Continue Reading →

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Modern capitalism full transcript

Posted on 5th March 2019 by Camilla

Introduction, by John Rudge Mike Kidron (1930-2003) was a towering figure in the history of the International Socialist tradition.1 When Mike died in 2003, Alex Callinicos wrote that he “made an enormous contribution to the Socialist Workers Party’s development during… Continue Reading →

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