Class Struggle Heightens in Kenya

Genecialist manifesto: overcoming the “class struggle” in medicine

Generalists and specialists are often considered two completely distinct species, which culminates in the establishment of a concept of dichotomy. However, these dichotomy can at times fuel tension and even erupt into open conflict. In order to resolve this issue, the author herein proposes the concept of a "genecialist." The genecialist refers to a hybrid comprising elements inherent to both g...

Class Struggle and Class Compromise in the Era of Stagnation and Crisis

Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle

Following a survey of Marx and Engels’ major writings on crisis from the early 1840s to the 1860s (Section II) we set out a systematic exposition and interpretation of their theory of capitalist accumulation and its crises (Sections III VIII). Our principal objective is to show, first, how their theoretical work grew out of, and was integral to, their political struggles; second, how they came ...

From Race to Class Struggle: Re-Problematizing Critical Race Theory

Multiple cycles and the Bautin bifurcation in the Goodwin model of a class struggle

In the field of economic growth, a huge interest has been devoted to explain the mechanisms through which a nonlinear system looses its stability and starts to oscillate around the steady state. Since the seminal Kalekian analysis, limit cycles represent the theoretical way of characterizing the emergence of persistent oscillations of macro-economic variables, namely the rise of indeterminacy p...