Capitalism as a mode of transition
By JOHN P. PEREIRA: Brief reflections on “Capital” by Karl Marx
23/06/2025
By JOHN P. PEREIRA: Brief reflections on “Capital” by Karl Marx
By ISAÍAS ALBERTIN DE MORAES: Commentary on the book by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
By FRANCISCO ALANO: Ricardo Faria: Egg billionaire criticizes Bolsa Família and pays salaries 20 times lower in Brazil
By JOSÉ MICAELSON LACERDA MORAIS: Exploring the challenges of sustainability – a detailed analysis of the barriers and opportunities in the quest for a sustainable future
By BRANKO MILANOVIC: The world is entering a new era in which rich countries will adopt an unusual dual policy: abandoning neoliberal globalization internationally and resolutely promoting a neoliberal project domestically
By ARID PERSIO: Article from the recently released collection, organized by Luis Felipe Lebert Cozac
By MONICA LOYOLA STIVAL: Agribusiness accounts for 27,4% of GDP by promoting deforestation and receives 158 billion in tax breaks
By ELEUTÉRIO FS PRADO: Eleutério Prado reveals how Peter Thiel inverts Marxist criticism to argue that “capitalism and competition are opposites,” crystallizing monopoly as virtuous while promising “cities of freedom” policed by robots with artificial intelligence
By RENATO DAGNINO: The false polarization between Edinho and Valter Pomar in the PT elections: while one defends a solidarity economy and the other reindustrialization, both ignore that only 0,02% of GDP goes to solidarity networks against 23% of subsidies to the class
By SANDRO FRANCISCO DETONI: With 45,58% of Petrobras in the hands of foreign “investors”, the exploration of the Equatorial Margin is revealed as a sophisticated fiscal adjustment mechanism disguised as energy sovereignty. Thus, the government acts as a mere facilitator of private profits.
By NATALIA T. RODRIGUES: Commentary on the book by Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
By MANFRED BACK & LUIZ GONZAGA BELLUZZO: As long as the 'macro media' insist on burying financial dynamics under linear equations and obsolete dichotomies, the real economy will remain hostage to a fetishism that ignores endogenous credit and the volatility of speculative flows.
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: When education ceases to be a right and becomes a financial commodity, 80% of Brazilian university students become hostages to decisions made on Wall Street, not in classrooms
By FERNANDO MARTINI: One year after the devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre becomes the stage for urgent reflections on the planet's climate future
By LUIS FELIPE MIGUEL: The world's biggest billionaire and a clumsy talker, Elon Musk is living proof that meritocracy is nonsense
By BENJAMIN BRAUN & CÉDRIC DURAND: Donald Trump's return to office has exposed the fault lines within the coalition that contributed to his victory
By FERNANDO RUGITSKY: Excerpt from the Introduction to the new edition of Karl Marx's book.
By BRUNO BONCOMPAGNO: The commodity fetish of the 21st century – how capitalism hides exploitation, dependence and geopolitical risk behind a simple pen
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: There are contradictions in the “electric revolution”. Battery production is highly polluting and labor-intensive in mining. Charging infrastructure is still uneven, with the risk of deepening territorial inequalities
By JOHN P. PEREIRA: Brief reflections on “Capital” by Karl Marx
By ISAÍAS ALBERTIN DE MORAES: Commentary on the book by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
By FRANCISCO ALANO: Ricardo Faria: Egg billionaire criticizes Bolsa Família and pays salaries 20 times lower in Brazil
By JOSÉ MICAELSON LACERDA MORAIS: Exploring the challenges of sustainability – a detailed analysis of the barriers and opportunities in the quest for a sustainable future
By BRANKO MILANOVIC: The world is entering a new era in which rich countries will adopt an unusual dual policy: abandoning neoliberal globalization internationally and resolutely promoting a neoliberal project domestically
By ARID PERSIO: Article from the recently released collection, organized by Luis Felipe Lebert Cozac
By MONICA LOYOLA STIVAL: Agribusiness accounts for 27,4% of GDP by promoting deforestation and receives 158 billion in tax breaks
By ELEUTÉRIO FS PRADO: Eleutério Prado reveals how Peter Thiel inverts Marxist criticism to argue that “capitalism and competition are opposites,” crystallizing monopoly as virtuous while promising “cities of freedom” policed by robots with artificial intelligence
By RENATO DAGNINO: The false polarization between Edinho and Valter Pomar in the PT elections: while one defends a solidarity economy and the other reindustrialization, both ignore that only 0,02% of GDP goes to solidarity networks against 23% of subsidies to the class
By SANDRO FRANCISCO DETONI: With 45,58% of Petrobras in the hands of foreign “investors”, the exploration of the Equatorial Margin is revealed as a sophisticated fiscal adjustment mechanism disguised as energy sovereignty. Thus, the government acts as a mere facilitator of private profits.
By NATALIA T. RODRIGUES: Commentary on the book by Pedro Rocha de Oliveira
By MANFRED BACK & LUIZ GONZAGA BELLUZZO: As long as the 'macro media' insist on burying financial dynamics under linear equations and obsolete dichotomies, the real economy will remain hostage to a fetishism that ignores endogenous credit and the volatility of speculative flows.
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: When education ceases to be a right and becomes a financial commodity, 80% of Brazilian university students become hostages to decisions made on Wall Street, not in classrooms
By FERNANDO MARTINI: One year after the devastating floods in Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre becomes the stage for urgent reflections on the planet's climate future
By LUIS FELIPE MIGUEL: The world's biggest billionaire and a clumsy talker, Elon Musk is living proof that meritocracy is nonsense
By BENJAMIN BRAUN & CÉDRIC DURAND: Donald Trump's return to office has exposed the fault lines within the coalition that contributed to his victory
By FERNANDO RUGITSKY: Excerpt from the Introduction to the new edition of Karl Marx's book.
By BRUNO BONCOMPAGNO: The commodity fetish of the 21st century – how capitalism hides exploitation, dependence and geopolitical risk behind a simple pen
By FERNANDO NOGUEIRA DA COSTA: There are contradictions in the “electric revolution”. Battery production is highly polluting and labor-intensive in mining. Charging infrastructure is still uneven, with the risk of deepening territorial inequalities
