International Communist Review - Issue 1 - 2009
System crisis, Jo Cottenier and Henri Houben (“Etudes Marxistes”, Workers’ Party of Belgium)
The international economic crisis and the position of Greece. The theses of KKE, Eleni Mpellou (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
The Crisis of Capitalism and The Revolutionary Perspective In Hungary, Gyula Thürmer (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Communist Workers’ Party)
On Remnants of National Liberalism. Latvia in world system crisis circumstances, Victor Matjushenok (“Latvijas Socialists”, Socialist Party of Latvia)
The costs of the crisis will be aggravated by the imperialist treaties in Mexico, Marco Vinicio Dávila Juárez (“El Comunista”, Party of Communists, Mexico)
Theses of the Russian Communist Workers’ Party: Modern traits of the capitalist crisis and their particularities in Russia, V. A. Tiulkin and M. V. Popov (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)
The Communist Party face to face with the Capitalist Crisis, Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (“Propuesta Comunista”, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain)
Political Transformation of Turkey and Global Economic Crisis, Alper Birdal (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
Table of Contents
“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions”.
(K. Marx – F. Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party)
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the current crash is only comparable to that of 1929. At the time, the crash was followed by several years of great depression: many businesses closed, unemployment was incredibly high, salaries were cut, poverty rose. ...
The international capitalist economy is going through a profound crisis characterized mainly by its extensive synchronization. It initially manifested itself in 2007 in the USA, in the construction sector, with the depreciation of capital in financial companies, due to the extensive circulation ...
The forces of capitalism both in Europe and Hungary make enormous efforts to hidden the fact that the contemporary capitalism is in a deep crisis. ...
Even though Eastern Europe and Baltic’s countries usually are mentioned together as countries of certain “new Europe”s considering their membership in NATO and the European Union, the political and social economic situation is different in each one. ...
The present crisis of the capitalist mode of production demonstrates the actuality of Marxism-Leninism and the revolutionary tasks in class struggle of the proletariat and its vanguard organization, communist parties. ...
1. The causes of crises are rooted deeply in the very nature of capitalism, in its basic contradiction - between the strengthening social character of production and the private-property form of appropriation that, in pursue for profit, - leading to anarchy in production. ...
The tendency of the profit rate to fall, as Marx explained, is the weak point of capitalism, to the extent that profit is the aim, the motive and the finality of capital. ...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of looking at the current crisis of capitalist system from a long-term historical perspective?
The unambiguous disadvantage of such perspective is that, while defining long historical terms, in other words different periods of the capitalist system, ...
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