On Friday, May 7th, THIS IS FOREVER Event and Discussion Series will be hosting Conrad Herold for a presentation on the role of finance in class struggle today. The event will be at Bluestockings Bookstore at 7PM.
Can the Marxian framework comprehend the new, financialized, character of class struggle today? Despite important differences between Marx’s time and ours, there are also significant similarities. His was also an era of financial innovation, financial integration, and international financial crisis. Specifying what is new and what is not is a first step toward clarifying how Marx might analyze finance today. Likewise, examining how capital responded to financial crisis in the past can clarify where we may want to put our energies today.
Discussion to follow.
Conrad Herold is Professor of Economics and History at Hofstra University, New York. His research interest is contemporary Latin American Political Economy and Macroeconomics. He was born and raised in South America.
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