The literature on postcapitalism has now become almost unmanageable, broadly divided between the commons debate and the debate on socialist planning (central planning and/or market socialist models). We will outline here once again the debate between the socialist Oskar Lange […]
The Lange-Hayek Debate: Market Socialism or Capitalist Competition?
The Roots of the Uprising in France … The Unrest Regarding the current wave of unrest, I can only speak from my position, describing what I have seen in the city where I live in the suburbs close to Paris.
In this paper I argue that much of Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the capitalist state as set out in his final work, State, Power, Socialism (SPS), may be fruitfully combined with the ideas of Fred Block as put forward in
Towards a Better Theory of the Capitalist State: Combining Block’s and Poulantzas’ Approaches
War for peace”, “the cause of the weak against the strong”, “crimes against humanity perpetrated in the heart of Europe… a battle for civilisation”, “a genocide in progress in Ukraine”… The first quote is from Droit du Peuple, a socialist
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
Introduction: Outside the Room On July 29 2020, in a sweltering Washington heatwave, a roomful of US congresspeople, most, but not all, masked against the rampant coronavirus, interrogated the virtually-present CEOs of four of the most highly market-valued companies on
Big Tech in Capital’s Time of Troubles: Theoretical Notes
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Bue Rübner Hansen and Emanuele Leonardi Read Part II and Part III QUESTION 1: How do you define degrowth? Nick: Over the last few years the intensifying climate emergency and other ecological crises has stirred a surge of
Argumente für einen konstituierenden Frieden Raúl Sánchez Cedillo transversal texts, Februar 2023ISBN 978-3-903046-36-8397 Seiten, broschiert, € 20,00 Mit Vorworten von Pablo Iglesias Turrión und Katja Maurer, medico internationalAus dem Spanischen von Michael GriederHerausgegeben von Kelly MulvaneyLektor: Tobias Lambert Seit dem
Dieser Krieg endet nicht in der Ukraine
… The experimental technological utopia currently underway, that of a humanity confined to their homes, can be understood in this light: it proposes that we simply inhabit our own worldlessness [acosmie].It aims to spare us the experience of the loss
Sketch of a Communist Political Doctrine
a recent essay published with Lundi Matin (#369, 06/02/2023). On the desire to smash time Why is life confined to its biological temporality (work time, the cycle of expenditure and recuperation, exhaustion and consumption) unliveable in the strict sense? Why
taken from bonustracks Into the Black Box Das Buch ‘Riot.Strike.Riot’ von Joshua Clover, eine lange und präzise historisch-politische Analyse der Entwicklung der Formen des sozialen Konflikts in der Moderne. Wir hatten das Vergnügen, das Nachwort für die italienische Ausgabe des
LOGISTIK 4.0, STREIKS UND ZIRKULIERENDE SUBJEKTE. UNSERE POSITIONEN IN ‘RIOT.STRIKE.RIOT’
Dreams about the end of the world are not, perhaps, anymore the fruits of despair and fear alone. They are also the frolics of boredom. It is not only when the world is evil or ugly, but when it does
Semiotics of the End: Boredom at the End of the World