What is Money? Part Five: The Future of Money

How do we break the spell of the so-called “root of all evil” and free ourselves from these “chains of gold”?

What is Money? Part Four: Inflation and the Gold Standard

Adam Booth examines the factors lying behind inflation and explores the role of gold as the basis for an international monetary system.

What is Money? Part Three: The Rise of the Bankers

Adam Booth looks at the growth of finance, the development of banking, and the role of credit within capitalism.

What is Money? Part Two: Value and Social Relations

In the second part of his series looking at the role of money within capitalist society, Adam Booth explores the questions of value, alienation, and profit.

What is Money? Part One: The Origins of Money

In the first of a five-part series analyzing the role of money within capitalist society, Adam Booth looks at the origins of money.

Why You Should be a Socialist

Rob Sewell, editor of Socialist Appeal (Britain), looks at the ongoing crisis of capitalism, the growing inequality in the world today, and the potential for transforming our lives on the basis of modern technology.

The Puzzle of Productive and Unproductive Labor

In their desperate search for profitable fields of investment, the capitalist class, especially the financial oligarchy, has presided over an explosive growth of unproductive expenditure that today threatens to undermine the very edifice of capitalism. […]