taken from ill will editions
“The working class in every country lives its own life, makes its own experiences, seeking always to create forms and realize values which originate directly from its organic opposition to official society.”
—CLR James, Grace Lee Boggs, and Cornelius Castoriadis, “Facing Reality”
1. The George ...
blacklivesmatter, blackness, capitalism, class, georg floyd, racism, rebellion, Riot, struggle
George Economakis and John Milios
ABSTRACT
On the basis of a Marxist analysis of capitalist relations of classpower and the class configuration in contemporary advanced capitalist societies, the paper investigates the consequences of the recent economic crisis and of the neoliberal capitalist strategies in Greece (austerity, market liberalization and privatizations), ...
althusser, class, crisis, greece, marxism, modes of production, Poulantzas, structuralism
Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, Martijn Konings
What becomes of class when residential property prices in major cities around the world accrue more income in a year than the average wage worker? This paper investigates the dynamic of combined wage disinflation and asset price inflation as a key to understanding the growth of inequality in recent decades. ...
asset inflation, capital, class, derivatives, inequality, marxism
Alan Freeman
The conference title is ‘Class, State and Nation’. My title is ‘What is to be done?’, a steal from Lenin, but at historical moments like ...
This is a sequence of reflections on affirmation and negation, on identification and severance: determinate negation as strategic affirmation, the identification of concrete universals and severance from a defunct relation. These lines will be explored with reference to the current situation of the waged and unwaged working class, most proximately ...
class, class politics, derivatives, financialisation, human capital, Negation
… Since the ‘we’ is constituted by the class relation, the self-overcoming of the ‘we’ is the overcoming of the relation that constitutes it. This is certainly theoretically uncompromising (and admirable because of it). But it is also paradoxical, and its paradoxical character exacerbates its status as a claim that ...
abstraction, class, communism, Endnotes, marxism, real subsumption, technology
The difference between the two points of view will thus be all the
more pronounced. The Marxist notion of the proletariat entails a
triple consideration: its position within the structure of production,
determined at minimum by its dispossession of the means of production
and its insertion into the process of ...
class, Deleuze, deleuze/guattari, marxism, Minority, state-form
Originally published by Théorie Communiste as ‘Classe / segmentation / racisation. Notes’. Translated from the French by LNFC.
There has always been segmentation within labor power. We must take it, then, as an objective determination of labor power under capital that naturally leads to a division of labor. Here we ...
class, class struggle, Communisation, racialization, segmentation
(The following text is the slightly reworked version of an article which appeared on 21 September 2005 in “Jungle World”, a leftist German weekly newspaper. In a previous issue, Karl Heinz Roth, one of the main German representatives of Operaismo, had argued that some important Marxian categories are not ...
capital, category, class, marx, marxism, money, world system
Guattari was dreaming of building a federation of regional protest movements, which could open up secondary fronts and weaken the Nation-State. Despite his extensive network of contacts, he never managed to realize this perilous project, which was located on the cusp between democratic combat and terrorist action […] Guattari became ...
class, Conspirational Communism, deleuze/guattari, determination-in-der-letzten-instanz, guattari, marxism, Minority, Molecular Revolution
FASTER/SLOWER/FUTURE
The Road to Post-Capitalism
Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium
22-23 October, 2016
Introduction
The Terminator is, after all, by now probably the most clichéd image for accelerationism and the debate over accelerationism. So, partly due to nostalgia, partly to perversity, I am going to return to it one more time. In ...
1. Facets of Euro-Crisis, Austerity Policies and Global Imbalances
After the outbreak of the 2008 global economic crisis, the European project has entered its second, less optimistic phase. Cross-country differentials in growth and inflation, persistent current account (or financial account) imbalances, real effective rate appreciation (mostly for countries with current ...
