Last month Nestle, the second biggest food and beverage company in the world, announced plans to build a $154 million dollar coffee processing plant in Mexico. Despite earning $7.3 billion in profits last year, they are requesting that the Mexican […]
Say NO to Nestle, No to Monocrops & No to Corporate Coffee
Interview mit Achim Szepanski im Autonomie-Magazin. Von: Raoul Hamlet/ Vidar Lindström. Achim, du hast allein 2018 drei Bücher herausgebracht. Die Ökonomie-Einführung „Kapital und Macht im 21. Jahrhundert“, ein Buch mit drei Essays über „Imperialismus, Staatsfaschisierung und die Kriegsmaschinen des Kapitals“
Last Friday I took part in a panel to launch a new book, World in Crisis: A Global Analysis of Marx’s Law of Profitability, published by Haymarket Books, edited by Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi. The presentation was at this
Finance, Imperialism and Profits
Introduction The following article was written in the early months of 2015. It is the result of a series of discussions and readings by the Surplus Club in Frankfurt am Main in accordance with the topic of the 2007-08 crisis
Trapped at a Party Where No One Likes You
Abstract This paper critically reviews some fundamental theses of the theories of imperialism. It claims that a theory of imperialism, if based on Marx’s theory of capitalism, shall on the one hand reject the traditional monopoly-capitalism approach and on the
Imperialism or (and) Capitalist Expansionism
Political theory in the twenty-first century is at an interesting crossroads where migration has reached such a critical threshold that what seemed to be an exception has now become the rule. The question now is how to understand the rules
The Political Centrality of the Migrant
Haiti is home to the slave rebellion that became arguably the great revolution of the modern world. For its trouble, totally not-racist liberal democratic nations punished it systematically until it was one of the poorest nations on the planet. Except
The main thesis of this book is that contemporary globalization is bringing about a type of imperialism that differs fundamentally from those of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The most significant difference is that the great capitalist firms, by becoming
GLOBAL IMPERIALISM AND THE GREAT CRISIS (pdf)
Der Labelbetreiber, Musiker und Theoretiker Achim Szepanski sieht in die Zukunft der Maschinisierung: Die planetarische Arbeiterklasse habe den Tisch gedeckt, der übermorgen von Robotern abgeräumt werde. Interview Von Peter Nowak Angesichts der vielen Neuerscheinungen zum 200. Geburtstag könnte man sagen:
Globales Festgelage des monetären Kapitals
Nach den umfangreichen Werken Kapitalisierung I und II und Non-Marxismus legt Achim Szepanski im Hamburger Laika Verlag nun sein bislang zugänglichstes Werk vor, Kapital und Macht im 21. Jahrhundert. Das als Einführung in die hier finanzielles Kapital genannte Thematik konzipierte
Zum Buch “Kapital und Macht im 21. Jahrhundert”
… The nomad is the name of themigrant expelled from the territory, the barbarian is the name of the migrant expelled from political status or citizenship, the vagabond is the name of the migrant expelled from the juridical order, and
KINOPOLITICS AND THE FIGURE OF THE MIGRANT
These are notes from, and for, a series of discussions on imperialism organised by Redline. (See here for other details) As such, they are not a fully rounded analysis, just some guidance on points in these debates. ————— A key point
Value of Labour-Power, Wages, Productivity and Imperialism