Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism: Review of William I. Robinson’s latest book.

In his latest book Epochal Crisis: The Exhaustion of Global Capitalism (CUP, 2025), William I. Robinson provides a masterful analysis of the current crisis engulfing global capitalism. Robinson is clearly one of the best contemporary Marxist thinkers when it comes to investigating the current dynamics tearing capitalism apart. In this blog post, I will highlight some of his major contributions while also point to some of the blind spots in his analysis.

 

Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century through the Prism of Value: a review of the book by Carchedi and Roberts.

Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts are seasoned commentators on the changing fortunes of capitalism. In their latest, joint book Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century through the Prism of Value (Pluto Press, 2023), they bring these insights together and assess them through Marx’s theory of value and here especially the tendency of the falling rate of profit. In this blog post, I will discuss their main contributions as well as provide some critical reflections.