ஐரோப்பிய ஒன்றிய நாடுகளில் உழைக்கும் மக்களின் ஊதியம் அதிகமாகக் குறைக்கப்பட்ட நாடு பிரித்தானியா

Karl Marx predicted the crisis one and a half centuries ago:

As a definition, it is the percentage and the relation between variable and constant capital, between the fixed cost a
nd the material and goods’
value, demonstrated in the production of commodities to the labour power used inmanufacturing (Cockshott and Cottrell, 2003).Moreover, the percentage of profit would be regenerated and re-established only after a substantial deflation or destruction of capital alongside with large-scale unemployment andlow level of salaries. Therefore, Marx was aware with generalised crisis, and within thesecrises, he tried to explain monetary and financial disorder and confusion. According toHensman (2008) Marx was aware that crises were expected-
“inevitable”
– in capitalism. This
indicates that he believed in “crisis in the accumulation of capital”
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, which leads to thecurre
nt economy or our real economy as “which has a system of production
not for the
human need but only for profit”.
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This shows that in the contemporary issues, we have a realeconomic crisis, referred to the whole current economic system, not only financial crisis.Marx draws up schemas for the social reproduction of capital, and they include onlytwo departments of capital: 1) one department is producing means of production; 2) onedepartment is producing means of consumption. This leads to
3) “Social useful production”,
which is the goods and services from the first and the second departments re-enter
production again, which is the capitalists’ consumption, some part of the surplus values goes
to the capitalist themselves (Volume 2 ), (Hensman, 2008). An example for this, that thestates provide cheap services like: railways, health insurance, education, and there is no profit
or investment have been made, Capitalism still benefits from them, “the reason is
governments provide these services with cheap prices and h
igh quality inputs”
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. Another example is of regulation in the interest of capitalist profits is, medicine and pharmaceutical
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See Hensman (2008), Marxism And the Economic Crisis.
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See Hensman (2008), Marxism And the Economic Crisis.
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See Hensman (2008), Marxism And the Economic Crisis.
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See Hensman (2008), Marxism And the Economic Crisis.
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See Hensman (2008), Marxism And the Economic Crisis.

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companies can make obscene profits by selling life-saving drugs at prices that condemn most patients who desperately need these products (Hensman, 2008).In addition, this shows that Neoliberal policies have resulted in this market diversion(or I might call it disruption). This type of disruption has been addressed by many scholars,
one of them Jan Berman, who states that “It is mis
take to think that neoliberalismconstitutions deregulation of the market; it is, rather, a regulation of the market in the
interests of the owners of capital”
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. For example, in the UK banking industry, many of CEOs and senior workers were under investigation by the authorities; in this case theauthority is the Financial Services Authority in the UK. The reason was, some of the senior workers set a series of electronic exchanges linked some of the British banks withinternational banks and corporations in order to make more profit from the currencyexchange trade process. They have been found guilty for manipulating the fixed or the keyrate. By doing this, they were illegally able to make vast quantities of money. The reasonwas, they were frequently providing either false high rates or false low rates to more than teninternational banks and businesses (Treanor, 2013). Therefore, regarding to this, some bankshave been fined large bills for
violating the exchange trade regulation, example, “Royal Bank
of Scotland RBS fined £390m for manipulating [the]
rate”
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, however, some of the senior workers still walked away with high salaries. This shows another example of regulation in theinterest of capital profits. Furthermore,
many individual inventor’s right
s have been abusedthrough a lack of protection in copyright and patent laws which have allowed largecompanies and businesses to take others innovations and discoveries as their own; againreflecting the interests of capitalist profits over labour rights (Hensman, 2008: p 3).This shows that Marx
’s
ideas are great examples for class struggle. In this sense, itmight be obvious that there are high class, wealthy class; on the other hand, there is a lowclass, poor class living in poverty
’s line or maybe
lower. For Marx, inequality and poverty donot make the employees and workers to take stance against capitalist system. According tohim, this has always been
a major part, debatably, of “healthy” capitalist economy, whereas,
security and stability are required to avoid any economic crisis, which might be in this sense
“political
–
economic hegemony”.
As a reflection
, according to Easterling (2003) “greater
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See Hensman (2008), Marxism And the Economic Crisis.
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social and ideological impact is the insurity, instability and ruin that economic crisis periodically inflict on the lives of working-
class”.
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In addition,
Militarism
is another element that might have a strong connection to anyeconomic crisis. Militarism seems to be an industry that produces and provides militaryequipment for military needs and usage only. This means, militarism is a major production, but it is neither profitable nor directly supports public needs. As mentioned before, the previous military operations and military deploy by the US-international coalition may haveheavily contributed to the 2008 global economic crisis. For example, a similar situationhappened before in terms of militarism. In regards to the Cold War between the West andEast, (US and the former USSR), a report has been released by the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) “seeks to alter not the US’ President military strategy itself, but its excessive proportions”. (Socialist Voice, 1983: 1). However, Marx did not recognise the impact of
militarism as a negative impact on capital. He acknowledged it to be destructive and harmfulonly on the working class, which is again evidence that capitalism works only in the interestsof the capitalist themselve