THE U.S. RATE OF PROFIT IN 2020 with and without COVID subsidies.

The pandemic has greatly influenced the rate of profit with surprising results once subsidies are accounted for.

The fixed capital data for 2020 is an estimate using capital consumption data which is available.

ONCE AGAIN, WHY THE PROFIT MOTIVE COULD NOT WORK IN THE USSR.

In 1999 when my pamphlet was first published there appeared for the first time an explanation consistent with Marx’s methodology, why the profit motive is tied to market economies. It depends on the presence of “many capitals”. There for the first time appeared an explanation why the profit motive in the USSR had the opposite effect to that intended after it was made prominent in the Kosygin post-1967 reforms. In 2015 I wrote a major article on this question which is referenced in the article. Because much of this analysis has been buried by the large number of articles that appear on this site, I thought it useful to produce a follow up article as part of the series looking back at the USSR from the 1930s onwards.

BREXIT or WREXIT? As the pandemic subsides so the damage caused by Brexit becomes clearer.

LABOUR TIME IS THE VISIBLE HAND GUIDING PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. A tribute to the International Communists 1930s Theses.