세계공황인가 국가독점자본주의의 위기인가?

Abstract

This essay is a collection of controversies raised in the discussion on their articles published in Marxism 21, No. 23 between Soo-Haeng Kim and Seong-Gu Kim which was held at the Institute for Social Sciences of Gyeongsang National University in South Korea on September 1, 2011. Two Kim’s agreed to divide the controversies into four parts. The first part deals with the theoretical and practical importance of S. G. Kim’s stages theory of capitalism such as monopoly capitalism and state-monopoly capitalism. The second part is concerned with the special feature of the present economic crisis,i.e. whether it is a normal periodical crisis or a world economic crisis in need of structural adjustments. The third part clarifies the theoretical position of Marx’s tendency of the rate of profit to fall, and the distinction between periodical and structural crisis. The final part debates S. H. Kim’s argument that Marx’s phase of Krise should be divided into crisis and crash. The whole controversies cover the usefulness of Capital in the age of dominance of monopoly capital, the theoretical relations among the unfinished six books of Marx, the role of economic crisis in the transition to a new society and others.