Critique started in May 1973. It was announced at the first national conference at Imperial College, a conference addressed among others by Ernest Mandel, Ralph Miliband and Hillel Ticktin. Some 500 people attended. The first issue had a print run of 2500 which quickly sold out. The issues of the 70s used to sell around 4-5000 copies very largely in bookshops in the UK, the Continent of Europe and the USA. As the USSR began to mutate the focus of the journal changed to a critique of capitalism. Throughout its focus remained on political economy and the need to reinvigorate Marxism given its Stalinist degradation.
As the first Virtual Special Issue of Critique, we have selected articles which have either formed the basis of the work of the journal or which complement it. In the first instance Critique sought to develop a more credible modern Marxist theory of the USSR and of the Cold War. With that it needed to update the theory of a socialist/Communist society. In turn, the journal turned to a critique of existing Marxist theory of capitalism and so to the question of decline and to finance capitalism.
We hope that readers will take the opportunity to read or re-read these articles and write articles which develop, criticise or even seek rebut the work. The journal is certainly open to debate.
Towards a political economy of the USSR
Hillel Ticktin
The transitional epoch, finance capital and Britain Part 1 the political economy of declining capitalism
Hillel Ticktin
Towards a theory of finance capital Part 2: the origins and nature of finance capital
Hillel Ticktin
What will a socialist society be like?
Hillel Ticktin
The cold war and stalinism in the age of capitalist decline
Michael Cox
Has marxism a future?
Scott Meikle
Ten thesis on the social and economic laws governing the society transitional between capitalism and socialism
Ernest Mandel
The communitarian system and the law of value in Marx and lukács
István Mészáros
Marx's Vision of communism a reconstruction
Bertell Ollman
The workers' movement in Russia 1987–1992
Simon Clarke, Peter Fairbrother & Vadim Borisov
The US War On Iraq & The World Economy
Hillel Ticktin
From Marx to Goldman Sachs: The Fictions of Fictitious Capital, and the Financialization of Industry
Michael Hudson
Influential Political Leaders
Arab Spring Revisited
Perspectives on North Korea
All articles at: http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/pgas/rcso-virtua...issue
Published on 15 July 2013.
Critique Editorial Board website: http://www.critiquejournal.net/