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JOHN McDONNELL joked yesterday that Karl Marx and Tory Chancellor Philip Hammond, as well as historical Labour figures, are among those who have shaped his economic thinking.
The shadow chancellor was asked on The Andrew Marr Show whether he was a Marxist.
He replied that there is “a lot to learn from reading Das Kapital,” but that he differed from Marx in that he does not believe capitalism will die but that it needs transforming so that prosperity can be “shared by all.”
ROGER McKENZIE draws attention to the much-neglected oral traditions of the global South that define the identity – and therefore the liberation – of its custodians
MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes, with reservations, a scholarly addition to the unfinished business of understanding how capital works on a world scale
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
SETH SANDRONSKY savours a personal account of the life and thought of the great Italian revolutionary