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Марксизм и критическая теория (Marxism and critical theory)

2018 May 28
Марксизм и критическая теория (Marxism and critical theory)
Mario Tronti - On Marxism and Sociology (1959)

I would say that precisely this interpretation of Marxism, this split, this rift that operates in the very core of Marxism, is the base of two possible approaches: either an approach of absolute powerlessness in the field of consciousness and therefore of practical research, precisely because at a certain point this general framework becomes an empty method and therefore does not produce a practical grasp on reality; or the other approach that one can obtain from this starting point [impostazione], which amounts to a concession to positions foreign to Marxism, because this general framework, precisely in its generality and abstractness, does not succeed in concretely seizing on a particular type of reality, and it immediately needs something in its place that achieves this practical grasp on reality.

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2016/10/03/on-marxism-and-sociology-1959/
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2018 May 29
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Heike Becker - “Power to the People”: the 1968 Revolt in Africa

Fifty years after student protests shook much of the Cold War world, in the ‘West’ and in the ‘East, ‘Global 1968’ has become the catchphrase to describe these profound generational revolts. West Berlin, Paris, and Berkeley spring to mind prominently, and most memorable behind what was then the Iron Curtain were the events of the Prague Spring. For most commentators and scholars, these events in the Global North appear to have constituted ‘Global 1968.’

http://roape.net/2018/05/29/power-to-the-people-the-1968-revolt-in-africa/
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Riccardo Bellofiore - May ’68, from the Critique of Society to the Critique of Political Economy

The ghost of May ’68 continues to haunt us. Herein resides the paradox: we have not finished with May ’68, despite the by now ritualistic and complacent commemorations, which in this fiftieth anniversary have integrated the global academy. In 1984, Deleuze and Guattari provocatively claimed that “May 68 did not take place” because the subjective crisis it opened had not yet been resolved and therefore the potentialities of the event were still open-ended.

https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/05/29/critique-of-society-and-critique-of-economy-questions-and-notes-on-an-absence-in-the-writings-on-68-twenty-years-later/
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2018 May 30
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Capitalism’s Crisis of Care

In an interview, Nancy Fraser contends with liberal feminism’s troubling convergence with contemporary capitalism, and offers a radically different vision of gender justice.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nancy-fraser-interview-capitalism-crisis-of-care
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2018 May 31
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Nicolas Hausdorf - Narcocapitalism

Nicolas Hausdorf discusses the capitalism of narcosis and the role of anaesthesia in the world of politics.
What is Narcocapitalism then? De Sutter defines it as: «the capitalism of narcosis, that enforced sleep into which anaesthetists plunge their patients so as to unburden them from everything that prevents them from being efficient in the current arrangement- which means work, work, and more work»
Powerful? Yes and no. Yes, because substances are indeed used to anaesthesize unpleasant symptoms arising from the domain of the social as a result of collateral effects of the socio-economic system. No, because it is increasingly unclear whether today this exists in any more than nominal relationship with the efficiency of the worker.

https://hkrbooks.com/2017/12/14/narcocapitalism/
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Dario Azzellini - Workers’ Control in the Crisis of Capitalism

In February 2016, a dozen former workers of a small woodworks plant in the small Greek town of Patrida, some 60 kilometers from Thessaloniki, had had enough. Since 2008 they had been tricked by the owners. With a promise to pay back everything soon, the bosses did not pay the workers their full salary anymore, reduced working hours and announced bankruptcy without making it official. But the situation never improved and the workers never saw their money. Finally, in December 2015, the plant closed. The debt accumulated by the company in terms of unpaid salaries currently stands at around 700,000 euros.

https://roarmag.org/magazine/workers-control-in-the-crisis-of-capitalism/
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2018 June 01
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Nivedita Majumdar - Silencing the Subaltern

One of the central claims of postcolonial theory is that it upholds the social agency of dominated groups. This paper focuses on some of the foundational texts in the field by Ranajit Guha, Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha to examine how they analyze the place of resistance in gender relations. It shows that there is a considerable gap between what the theorists claim to show and what they actually argue in these texts. Instead of upholding women’s resistance to patriarchy, they redefine agency so that acquiescence to patriarchy is presented as a struggle against it. This calls into question the contribution that postcolonial theory can make to subaltern politics.

https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no1/silencing-the-subaltern
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Antonio Negri - Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse

A key figure in the Italian “Autonomia” Movement reads Marx’s Gründrisse, developing the critical and controversial theoretical apparatus that informs the “zero-work” strategy and other elements so crucial to this new and “heretical” tendency in Marxist theory. A challenge to both capitalist and socialist apologists for waged slavery.
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2018 June 02
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William Camacaro and Frederick B. Mills - Maduro is re-elected in a show of popular resistance

The May 20, 2018 elections in Venezuela were a victory for the popular sectors and a defeat for the U.S. backed opposition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD). The MUD strategy of supporting U.S. sanctions, inviting foreign intervention, and calling for voter abstention, fractured the right wing coalition and motivated a significant number of progressive forces to close ranks around the incumbent, President Nicolás Maduro.

https://mronline.org/2018/05/30/maduro-is-re-elected-in-a-show-of-popular-resistance/
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2018 June 03
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Populism or people’s movements? Interview with Mary Taylor

Another development in the US seems important to mention here: “Populism” also became a target of Chicago school economists in the second half of the last century, who were particularly focused on transforming Latin American economies (and thus governments and governance) in a neoliberal fashion. To them, the issue was “
hands of the people off of the levers of the economy,” as my colleague Carwil Bjork-James recently summed it up. So here we see that the term populist is pointing to the left (or at the very least forms of developmentalism that sought to decrease peripheral dependence on core capitalist countries, which of course would be a barrier to certain kinds of accumulation).

http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/populism-or-peoples-movements-interview-with-mary-taylor/
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Антонио Негри - Размышления о Манифесте акселерационистской политики

Статья посвящена реконструкции и критическому анализу тезисов «Манифеста акселерационистской политики» с позиций постопераизма. Оптика автора задается темами трансформации труда в позднем капитализме и марксистской концепции тенденции. Автор резюмирует предлагаемую в «Манифесте» программу операистской формулой «внутри и против капитала». В качестве отправного факта констатируется необратимое наступление гегемонии нематериального труда. Поэтому двигателем революции и источником собственного освобождения может выступить только класс, занимающийся умственным трудом, — это ключевая предпосылка всего «Манифеста». Для этого необходимо освободить технологии и производительные силы от гнета капитала. Требуется перераспределение информатизированного основного капитала и освоение субъектами труда самых продвинутых технологий, используемых капитализмом. Это освоение ведет к преобразованию субъектов, что помещает в центр внимания необходимость противостояния биополитике.
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2018 June 04
Марксизм и критическая теория (Marxism and critical theory)
Mike Parker - Management-By-Stress

In a generation, new industrial management methods, often called lean production or Japanese management, swept away the management system that had dominated the US auto industry in the early postwar decades. The traditional “Big Three” auto companies lost control of their industry in the US as well as worldwide. Many of the tenets of lean production soon spread from manufacturing to services, including hospitals and schools. Some left intellectuals have been drawn to this system by its apparent efficiencies combined with claims of workplace equality and worker participation. This article challenges that perspective, identifies the fundamental mechanism of the Toyota-Japanese management system, and argues that it creates greater levels of exploitation, worse working conditions, and more difficulties for union organizing and worker resistance.

https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no2/management-by-stress-parker
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Ashley J. Bohrer - Intersectionality and Marxism. A Critical Historiography

In recent years, intersectionality has been discussed more than ever before. These discussions have been so frequent that some have even called it ‘hegemonic’. Since the 2008 financial crisis, there has also been a renewed interest in Marxism – ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism’ were the two most-googled words in 2009. As these two frameworks have been increasingly analysed and considered over the past decade, they have also come into contact with one another. Marxists have criticised intersectionality scholars and vice versa.

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/intersectionality-and-marxism
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Slavoj Zizek - To understand what just happened in Slovenia, you have to go back to Donald Trump and Roseanne Barr

Nothing unexpected happened in the Slovene elections: although the anti-immigrant nationalist-populist Slovene Democratic Party (SDS) of Janez Jansa emerged as the strongest single party, the ruling centre-left coalition got many more votes. After a protracted bargaining, this coalition will probably continue to rule and, through its lack of vision, corruption scandals, and so on, make it sure that SDS will remain a convenient “fascist” threat, a scare ready to be evoked every four years in order to blackmail the majority of voters to elect the same “anti-fascist” pseudo-left.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/slovenia-elections-trump-roseanne-bar-brexit-italy-slavoj-zizek-janez-jansa-a8382751.html
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2018 June 05
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Статья Антонеллы Корсани - Капитализм, биотехнонаука и неолиберализм

Не образуя законченной теории, подход с позиций когнитивного капитализма, объединяющий теперь целый ряд исследователей, является гипотезой для понимания мутаций современного капитализма, соответствующих переходу к новому этапу капитализма, для характеристики которого как раз и используется термин «когнитивный капитализм». Наряду с различиями и разногласиями, имеющимися между исследователями, всем им общи две концепции: все они видят в когнитивном капитализме мутацию не менее важную, чем переход от торгового к промышленному капитализму, и все они считают знание основой этой новой формы капитализма. В данной статье мы ставим целью раскрыть новое отношение между капиталом, знанием и жизнью как одну из главных метаморфоз и вместе с тем одну из основных напряженнностей, свойственных
когнитивному капитализму.
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2018 June 06
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Mat Callahan - Why Ours Is a Key Moment in Time: Socialism & Democracy on Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

In his latest book, Egyptian economist and revolutionary theorist Samir Amin confronts an enigma. Twenty-six years after it occurred, the collapse of the Soviet Union continues to produce destabilizing consequences, not only for Russia but for the world as a whole. Yet the question “what collapsed?” is often only superficially considered.

https://monthlyreview.org/press/why-ours-is-a-key-moment-in-time-socialism-democracy-on-samir-amins-russia-and-the-long-transition-from-capitalism-to-socialism/
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The Lesser Evil

An interview with
Antonio Maestre

After years of corruption scandals and austerity, Spain finally ousted its conservative president Mariano Rajoy. But will the center-left PSOE do much better?

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/spain-psoe-sanchez-rajoy-podemos-iglesias
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