On Capital Accumulation, the Tendential Fall in the Rate of Profit, and Crisis Theory

Abstract

When we are facing nowadays the process of living of mankind in capitalist societies all over the world, we can discern two sides. On the one side we see as a result of the law of motion of these capitalist societies phenomena as growing inequality between rich and poor people, the environmental destruction of life conditions for human beings, animals, and vegetation, an increase of wars, growing xenophobia against migrants and the existence of racism. On the other side, however, we see that the laboring classes and gender, antiracist, ecological, and indigenous movements are making a stand against these dehumanizing phenomena. The essay at issue brings to the fore that Raya Dunayevskaya, basing herself on the dialectic in Production and the Human Subject in capitalist society, emphasizes in her notion of Philosophy of Revolution just this aspect of resistance, of revolt, against capitalism by showing that it is at the basis of Marx’s Humanism and also is ground for our era.