Einleitung Wirtschaftskrisen des Kapitalismus bilden eine direkt erfaßbare Wirklichkeit, mit typischen Eigenschaften. Diese Tatsache erklärt, warum Marx und Engels wiederholt Wirtschaftskrisen ansprachen, viele Jahre bevor Marx sein theoretisches System der Kritik der politischen Φkonomie entwickelte. Bis zu der Herausgabe vom […]
Zur Darstellung von Marx’ Krisentheorie im 3. Band des Kapital
As we have already indicated in Capitalization vol. 2 (Szepanski 2014b), the Greek economist John Milios has offered an important approach to a precise conceptual determination of the contemporary capital relation with his monetary theory of value, based on the
Money and Capital – Basic ideas of an updated Marxism
Money robots are actually nothing more than complex algorithms that analyze and process data and are also able to learn from feedback and results. Martin Ehrenhauser, a former member of the European Parliament, has published an informative book on this
Environmentalists often argue that if we accounted for the ‘true’ costs of the fossil-fuel business, the industry would go bankrupt. While I understand this sentiment, I think the idea of ‘true’ costs is dubious. Costs exist not because they are
How to Make the Oil Industry Go Bust
1 Paper presented at the Conference “Rileggere IlCapitale: La lezione di Louis Althusser”, organized by the Department of Historical Studies of the University Ca’ Foscari, November 9-11, 2006, Venice, Italy. 1. Althusser’s legacy: Capital as change of “object, theory and
Capital after Louis Althusser. Focusing on Value-Form Analysis1
Weiterhin geistert unentwegt durch westliche Medien und Talkshows, dass der Westen, insbesondere Europa, ohne wirklich dem Angriffsopfer Ukraine beizustehen, durch die Importe fossiler Energie (Kohle, Öl und Gas) aus Russland Putins Krieg finanziere, während die aus dem Krieg resultierenden Verknappungen
Social policy is like politics itself. It is administered to the masses in homeopathic doses, diluted to such an extent that it becomes vanishingly small in relation to the total solution, until it finally disappears, leaving only a trace, so
Simulation of social policy as a test for the regulation of economic neglect
Concluding my whole analysis, and leaving aside possible isolated cases or exceptions, I may say that while a class alliance between the working class and the majority of the new petty bourgeoisie seems likely in many cases, an alliance withthe
The working class and the middle classes: Allies or foes?
Warum heute noch Baudrillard? Sicherlich sind heute viele der poststrukturalistischen Science-Fiction-Texte „dated“, und da machen manche von Baudrillard, abgesehen von der Zweifelhaftigkeit seiner Simulationstheorie, keine Ausnahme. Aber es ist gerade die Normalität der vielen von Baudrillard beschriebenen Phänomene, die einen
Das Einkaufszentrum als Sarkophag der ware
Above, I argued that until the 1970s, social mediation through labor was characterized by an interdependence of capital and labor. This was based on the fact that capital, in its urge to exploit, was dependent on living labor, while the
1) Economic quantities are changeable in time precisely because money, as a so-called transcendental signifier for capital, possesses the quality of a pure quantity, with which money is released from actual acts of exchange and thus, as a monetary sign,
25 Theses on TIME (of Capital)
No civilization has been more Promethean than capitalism in its aspirations. Named after the Greek Titan who gave fire to humankind, Prometheanism is understood as a kind of environmental—but not (necessarily) environmentalist—strategy for the domination and management of something usually
Power, Profit & Prometheanism, Part I