1. The ABC of Communism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1920
   Written as a commentary on the Bolshevik Party program, combining a vision of communist society with a program for practical action.
2. Accumulation by Dispossession
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
3. The Accumulation of Capital 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1913
   Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
4. The Age of Finance Capital -- and the Irrelevance of Mainstream Economics
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Despite the fact that the manufacturers of ideas have elevated economics to the (contradictory) levels of both a science and a religion, a market theodicy, mainstream economics does not explain much when it comes to an understanding of real world developments. Indeed, as a neatly stylized discipline, economics has evolved into a corrupt, obfuscating and useless -- nay, harmful -- field of study.
5. Bubbles Always Burst: the Education of an Economist 
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Spouting ostensible free market ideology, the pro-creditor mainstream rejects what the classical economic reformers actually wrote. One is left to choose between central planning by a public bureaucracy, or even more centralized planning by Wall Street’s financial bureaucracy. The middle ground of a mixed public/private economy has been all but forgotten, denounced as "socialism." Yet every successful economy in history has been a mixed economy.
6. Capitalism and Theory
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   About the permanent arms economy, the latest phase of capitalism.
7. Chicken Game: Eurocrisis, Again.
   Washington vs. Berlin
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   How does one take an autonomous position against the European policies of social butchery without falling into nationalist, anti-German nostalgia or into rhetoric against “Anglo-Saxon speculation”? How do we put together struggles about rights, work and life with a constitutive struggle on the issue of debt, while avoiding any recourse to solutions “from above” to the risk of default?
8. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I 
   Economic Writings 1
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2013
   This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
9. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II 
   Economic Writings 2
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2015
   This volume contains a new English translation of Luxemburg’s most important book, The Accumulation of Capital (1913) as well as her response to its critics. Taken together, they constitute one of the most important Marxist studies of the globalization of capital.
10. Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Carroll looks at the accumulation of capital in Canada since the Second World War. Most of the book is devoted to tracing actual patterns of corporate ownership and intercorporate relationships.
11. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
12. Don't socialize the losses - take the whole thing! 
    Socialize all of finance under democratic control!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    A demand that a few weeks ago would have seemed leftist utopianism is now entirely reasonable and indeed the only practical solution. If ALL the financial institutions- banks, insurance companies, saving and loans, pension funds - become state property, their worthless loans to each other can be wiped off the books as the mere paper that they are.
13. Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011 
    Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    A revolutionary organization can no longer allow any separation between theory and practice, philosophy and revolution, workers and intellectuals, "inside" and "outside."
14. Europe's Moment of Truth
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras' acceptance of an "austerity package" on July 13, which contained measures rejected by the Greek people in a referendum barely a week before, represents not just an abject surrender by the Syriza government, or a sign of contempt on the part of German finance capital for the Greek electorate; it marks a decisive turning point for Europe (and indeed for the rest of the world), and the end of the road for a whole way of thinking on the Left, especially the European Left.
15. For a Workers Recovery Plan - The Causes and Cures of a New Great Depression 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Economics is now not just for the experts. If anything is clear from the panic that started in mid- September, 2008, it is that workers must understand the economy. For clearly the 'experts' have no idea what they are doing.
16. Global Leveraged Buyout or the "Longest Boom in Capitalist History"?
    A Reply to Robert Fitch
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Fitch's recent article, while making some good points about the unraveling of the world financial system, is seriously flawed.
17. International Forum on Globalization
    Resource Type: Website
    An alliance of activists, scholars, economists, researchers and writers formed to stimulate new thinking, joint activity, and public education in response to economic globalization.
18. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
19. Killing the Host 
    How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    In Killing the Host, economist Michael Hudson exposes how finance, insurance, and real estate (the FIRE sector) have seized control of the global economy at the expense of industrial capitalism and governments.
20. A Marxist History of the World part 102: What is neoliberalism?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The ‘free-market’ theory provides a pseudo-scientific justification for the greed and poverty endemic to the system, and the main beneficiaries are the global mega-corporations of neoliberal capitalism.
21. The Money Crisis: How bankers grabbed our money -- and how we can get it back
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2015
    A historical analysis exposing the flaws in the system that led to financial crisis.
22. The new colonialism: Greece and Ukraine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    According to Jack Rasmus, aA new form of colonialism is emerging in Europe. Not colonialism imposed by military conquest and occupation, as in the 19th century. Not even the more efficient form of economic colonialism pioneered by the U.S. in the post-1945 period, where the costs of direct administration and military occupation were replaced with compliant local elites allowed to share in the wealth extracted in exchange for being allowed to rule on behalf of the colonizers. In the 21st century, it is 'colonialism by means of financial asset transfer.' It is colony wealth extraction by colonizing country managers, assigned to directly administer the processes in the colony by which financial assets are to be transferred. This new form of colonialism by direct management plus financial wealth transfer is now emerging in Greece and Ukraine.
23. Parasites in the Body Economic: the Disasters of Neoliberalism 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Michael Hudson discusses his new book, "Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy."
24. The Trouble With Billionaires 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    The glittering lives of billionaires may seem to be a harmless source of entertainment, but authors Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks argue that such financial power not only threatens everyone's economic and social well-being but also upsets the very functioning of democracy. Our society tends to regard great wealth as evidence of exceptional talent or accomplishment. Yet spectacular fortunes are often attributable to luck, ruthlessness, cheating, or advantageous positioning that allow some to build on the work and insights of others who have paved the way.
25. A World at Financial War
    Will Greece Let EU Central Bankers Destroy Democracy?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The crisis for Greece – as for Iceland, Ireland and debt-plagued economies capped by the United States – is occurring as bank lobbyists demand that “taxpayers” pay for the bailouts of bad speculations and government debts stemming largely from tax cuts for the rich and for real estate, shifting the fiscal burden as well as the debt burden onto labor and industry. The financial sector’s growing power to achieve this tax favoritism is crippling economies, driving them further into reliance on yet more debt financing to remain solvent.

Experts on Finanzkapital in the Sources Directory

1. World Bank