In this paper I use Marx's analysis of rent to try to understand the complexities associated with the attempts to tax resource rents in Australia. My aim is to dissect ground rent (what the landlord expropriates in capitalist society by virtue of being the owner of land) into its constituent...

Tax reform in Australia is a battle between a band of hostile brothers. This band of hostile brothers includes productive capital, finance capital, commercial capital, landlords and the state, fighting among each other for their share of surplus value in the form of profits, interest, commercial...

This paper argues that even a free market is only free in a particular country because that state allows it to be so. Of course it goes without saying that the pressures of the market, together with the institutions of neoliberalism like the austerity wavering IMF and the World Bank, plus the...