Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Michael Lebowitz: What would Marx say today?

Michael Lebowitz addresses the World at a Crossroads conference. Photo by Alex Bainbridge.

Is it time to dust off a copy of Das Kapital and revisit Marx's analysis of capitalism's ills?

Michael Lebowitz has recently been in Australia as a featured guest of the World at a Crossroads conference, held in Sydney April 10-12, organised by the Democratic Socialist Perspective and Green Left Weekly. He was interviewed by the ABC Radio's Late Night Live on April 14, 2009.

Original audio source (lnl_20090414_2218.mp3)

Guests:

Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. He is a program coordinator with the Centro International Miranda, Caracas, Venezuela.

William Coleman
Reader at the school of economics of the Australian National University; editor of Agenda: a Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform.

Further Information:

``The Path to Human Development'' -- Michael A. Lebowitz

Publications

Beyond Capital, Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class
Michael A. Lebowitz
Palgrave Macmillan (Second Edition, 2003)

Story researcher and producer: Sasha Fegan

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