Militarism and Business Cycles

For those who may not realize that the lengthy title of this book means more than what it says, Critical Economic Theory is a Marxist addition to the critique of political economy. Today, of course not all adherents to the theory are Marxist. So the author comes to this book from a long association with nuclear disarmament in Holland, where he worked with an NGO advocating unilateralist western disarmament at the height of the Cold War. En route he wrote a work entitled Militarism and Critical Economic Theory. That book, the contents of which are not available, looked at militarism through the eyes of ‘left economic thinkers’ such as Rosa Luxembourg, Sweeney, Mandel and Samir Amin, the last of whom has written this book’s foreword. Despite such strong leftist credentials, the author points out that he is currently aware that people will not accept that Marx could explain everything that goes on in the world. Hence his realization that the relationship