Covid and “the great resignation”
Refuser de parvenir, ce n’est ni refuser d’agir ni refuser de vivre : c’est refuser de vivre et d’agir pour soi et aux fins de soi. Albert Thierry Tant que notre triomphe ne sera pas en même temps celui de tous, …
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Capitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class
Capitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class, by D. Bryan and M. Rafferty, New York: Palgrave-MacMillan 2006. $ 85; pp. viii, 236 The book is a vitally interesting and innovative approach to finance, focusing on …
Capitalism with Derivatives. A Political Economy of Financial Derivatives, Capital and Class
Recentering the Lumpen Question Today
UNDERSTANDING LUMPENIZATION AND BONAPARTISM originally published in Spectre To name a class “lumpenproletariat” is to reveal something that would otherwise prefer to stay hidden. The lumpenproletariat is not merely defined by its non-relation to production, which is the most common definition …
Marx After Growth #3 The History of Accumulation
The History of Accumulation In the previous lecture on what’s been called the ‘esoteric’ Marx, I explored a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. This ‘esoteric’ Marxism, sometimes called value-form theory, finds …
Lukács ’ Idea of Communism and its Blind Spot: Money
The three main concepts of Lukács’ famous book History and Class Consciousness are already contained in the title: History, Class and Consciousness. 1 These three concepts are especially developed in the longest and most important essay of the book, “Reification …
The Return of John Brown: White Race-Traitors in the 2020 Uprising
taken from Ill Will Theses on the White Proletariat White people, like all people, are divided by politics and class. These divisions were revealed through the recent uprisings, which showed us that there are whites who are willing to go …
The Return of John Brown: White Race-Traitors in the 2020 Uprising
Theses on the George Floyd Rebellion
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 …
The Working Class and the Middle Classes in the Greek Economic Crisis: Allies in a Common Anti-Neoliberal Strategy?
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 …
Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality
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 …
Class in the 21st century: Asset inflation and the new logic of inequality
What is to be Done?
What is to be Done? Plenary speech at the 14th annual conference of the world Association for political economy, winnipeg, 19th July 2019 Alan Freeman The conference title is ‘Class, State and Nation’. My title is ‘What is to be …
Human capital or toxic asset
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 …
Wandering Abstraction
… 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 …