Forth issue of medusa Magazine

 

forth issue of Medusa

1- Inauguration of a new era in Iran's capitalism: Formation of a new model of capital accumulation

by Farid Saberi

Abstract:

I have argued that Iran's capitalism has a monopolistic structure and one should analyze its function accordingly. In this context, I have argued that the historical realities like "chronic stagflation", "falling rate of profit", "economic and political dismantling of the middle class" and "new emerging way of worker's struggle" are all signs of the beginning of a new era in the development of Iran's capitalism and formation of a new model of capital accumulation. The concept of the "model of capital accumulation"  inspired by Karl Marx's methodology in Capital is introduced here to grasp the net of political and ideological relation among different classes, which reproduce and maintain the distribution of agential and institutional power among social classes. In the second part of the article, I have tried to re-articulate the theory of "monopoly capitalism" in classical Marxian tradition drawing upon Chris Herman's ideas in political economy. On this basis, I have introduced and defended a conception of "monopoly super-profits" as a combination between wage and non-wage exploitation. Non-wage exploitation has been explained on the basis of exploitation by financial capital and by inflation in prices. Finally, super-profits is explained both in domains of the national and global economy. In the last part of the article, the aforementioned signs of emerging model of capital accumulation are probed on the basis of a critical realist methodology taken from Roy Bhaskar's dialectical ontology and methodology.

 

key words:

the new model of capital accumulation. development of capital in the 2010s. political actuality. super-profit. Karl Marx. Chris Harman. Roy Bhaskar

2- workers' strike in Haft Tapehe

by Kamran Allahmoradi

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