One reason why transnational corporations increasingly prefer to externalize their business activities to independent firms is that this forces them into intense competition with each other, which is then an effective way to depress wages and intensify labor. Another incentive […]
Anthropogenic phraseology serves double duty for much of the Green Left. It works descriptively, advancing a naïve empiricism. To the degree that a philosophical an-thropology is offered, we are served up a philosophy of history that turns on a self-referential,
Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies: Climate, Class & Ideology in the Capitalocene
In the next chapter, Smith examines in more detail the globalization of production in terms of outsourcing by transnational corporations since the 1960s. It was not only the large distribution companies that resorted to textile production and other goods in
Joshua Clovers Buch ‘Riot. Strike. Riot. Eine neue Ära der Aufstände’, erschienen bei Meltemi (2023), ist ein sehr anregender Versuch, die sozialen Kämpfe, die die letzten Jahrzehnte geprägt haben, anhand der Koordinaten der Kritik der politischen Ökonomie zu interpretieren. Ein
Robert Meister’s book Justice is an Option is an extremely important attempt to relate the theory of current finance to leftist political options aimed, among other things, at a theory of justice involving finance. Meister seeks to transform the concept
Robert Meister’s new book “Justice is an Option” (1) – A Revaluation of the Financial Markets
Not unjustly, Michael Roberts in his blog has read John Smith’s book “Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century” as a complement to Tony Norfield’s book “The City” (we would add to John Milios et al. book “Rethinking Imperialism”). While Milios’ and
First, according to Marx’s argument, isolated individual capitals within a social formation, are transformed through competition (and not through the political influence of the state exercised from outside, as, e.g. Hardt and Negri [2000: 304-5] mistakenly maintain), into elements of
Nation, Imperialism, War. A critique of mainstream theories of imperialism
Marxist economist Anwar Shaikh has written a monumental book. His thousand-plus page work Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises is anything but a textbook and presupposes a basic knowledge of neoclassicism, Keynesianism and Marxist theory. It is also enriched with a sophisticated
Notes on Anwar Shaikh`s „Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises“
The power of particularity, of minority, has its model or universal consciousness in the proletarian.” Deleuze/Guattari When Marxist positions address the question of heteronomy and the autonomy of struggles, they do so in the context of a process sustained by
Minority and Proletariat in Deleuze/Guattari.
For my commentary there are two issues to highlight. The first can be anticipated and raises a problem with Fraser’s dual-systems theorising and her emphasis on the institutionalised social order of capitalism as a series of separations between the structures
Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism
Let’s cut straight to the heart of the matter: following the large demonstrations against pension “reforms,” President Macron decided to “force his way” by bypassing parliament and imposing a sovereign decision to adopt a law raising the retirement age from
In 2023, following the economic upheavals of the Corona pandemic, the question of a coming financial crisis is once again becoming more urgent. There is now even talk of “polycrises” that go far beyond the financial sphere. In a polycrisis,
Polycrisis, Banking Crisis and Catastrophe Capitalism