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Conference: The Capitalist Economic Crisis
In 1858, in an article for the New York Tribune, Karl Marx wrote:
…'the recent commercial crisis in this country as well as in America and in the North of Europe, was mainly owing to excessive speculation and abuse of credit.'…What are the social circumstances reproducing, almost regularly, these seasons of general self-delusion, of over-speculation and fictitious credit? If they were once traced out, we should arrive at a very plain alternative. Either they may be controlled by society, or they are inherent in the present system of production. In the first case, society may avert crises; in the second, so long as the system lasts, they must be borne with, like the natural changes of the season.
Conference programme:
10am Registration
10.30am The Capitalist Economic Crisis: Dr Paul Sutton
12.00 noon War and Peace: Noah Tucker
2pm Venezuela: the new road: Nestor Lopez, First Secretary, Venezuelan Embassy
3.30pm What, and where, is the working class?: Barry Johnson
followed by discussion of the British political situation
5.30pm Close
The conference will seek to uncover the inherent problems, contradictions, bankruptcy and war dangers of the capitalist system of production and also to explore the possibilities for successful action against the system and its replacement by socialism.
Conference fee: £20 / £10 (unwaged)
Reserve a place by e-mail: editor@thesocialistcorrespondent.org.uk or send registration fee to The Socialist Correspondent, 10 Midlothian Drive, Glasgow, G41 3RA.