What is value? This question has perplexed the human mind for more than 2,000 years. The classical bourgeois economists grappled with the question, as did Marx.
Joe Russell, Executive Committee member of the RCP, discusses Marx’s completion of the Labour Theory of Value, and provide a defence of his economic ideas against attacks from modern day critics.
‘A Nation of Shopkeepers’, by academic Dan Evans, argues that the working class has shrunk, giving way to a ‘new petty bourgeoisie’. He does this by changing the definition of class to a set of cultural values, abandoning the Marxist standpoint altogether.
In this session from the Revolution Festival 2024, Shaun Morris, Central Committee member of the RCP, discusses the cruel legacy of British imperialism in Ireland.
With the recent rise of artificial intelligence, the capitalist press has gone into overdrive, peddling wild fantasies about the future of work. But are the bots coming for white-collar jobs? And what does this all mean for the class struggle?