Articles by Marcello Musto
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Political Crisis in Italy and Greece: Marx on ‘Technical Government’
Prof. Marcello Musto – The Bullet,
21 Nov 2011
In recent years Karl Marx has again been featured in the world’s press because of his prescient insights into the cyclical and structural character of capitalist crises. In the last thirty years, the powers of decision-making have passed inexorably from the political to the economic sphere. The events of recent days in Greece and Italy are a striking illustration of these tendencies. Behind the facade of the term ‘technical government’ – or ‘government of all the talents,’ as it was known in Marx’s day – we can make out a suspension of politics (no referendum, no elections) that supposedly hands over the whole field to economics.
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