Barbarism of Labour
And labor is everywhere, at all times. When oppression is absolute, there is no more leisure, no more “free time. Sleep is supervised. The meaning of work is then the destruction of work at and through work. But if, as …
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The distinction between financial and real capital
With money, one can potentially trade all objects, products and relations of an economy as commodities, as purchasable objects, while conversely commodities are produced exclusively in order to turn them into money. Because of this ubiquitous function of money alone, …
From the commodity to the spectacle: Debord’s Marx
Published a century after Marx’s Capital, Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle was described upon its release as ‘the Capital of the new generation’ (Le Nouvel Observateur). However, the book’s content has almost never been seriously examined alongside the …
Formalism of materialist reason
Marx’s study of the species being of humanity institutes itself as a science thatdeals with value production and the relation of value to material reality. Thisis obviously a metaphysical question, but the suggested approach is scientific.Therefore, the science to be …
Value Form and Abstract Labour in Marx. A critical review of Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s notion of “real abstraction”
University of Chicago, May 14, 2021. Marx defines the social homogenisation of individual production processes by introducing the term abstract labour. Labour has a dual nature – on the one hand it is concrete labour (labour which produces a concrete …
Autonomist Marxism and World-Ecology: For a Political Theory of the Ecological Crisis
This paper aims to articulate an “encounter” between operaismo (Wright, 2017 – in English literally “workerism”, but often referred to as “Autonomist Marxism”, from now on AM, highlighting a horizon of worker autonomy from capital) and World-Ecology (Moore, 2015a – …
Autonomist Marxism and World-Ecology: For a Political Theory of the Ecological Crisis
Critique of the concept of abstract labor
The attempt of Marxist economists to finally get hold of the concept of abstract labor (in relation to that of concrete labor) was, of course, preceded by Marx’s critique of classical national economics, whose adepts got caught in an extraordinary …
Kritik des Konzepts der abstrakten Arbeit
Abstrakte Arbeit Dem Versuch der marxistischen Ökonomen, dem Begriff der abstrakten Arbeit (in Relation zu dem der konkreten Arbeit) endgültig habhaft zu werden, ist natürlich die Marx’sche Kritik an der klassischen Nationalökonomie vorausgegangen, wobei deren Adepten sich in einen Zirkel …
Asiatic Mode of Production
The AMP refers to the structural elements of a special type of pre-capitalist societies: a) absence of private property of the means of production, b) collective organization (economic, political and ideological) of the ruling class in a despotic state, c) …
The Paris Commune: Franco “Bifo” Berardi
An interview with Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the Paris Commune of 1871 and its present resonances. Originally published by the Planetary Commune. Niccolò Cuppini (Planetary Commune ): We would like to take advantage of the 150the anniversary of the Paris Commune to open a reflection on the …
Undercomets: On the Structure of Antagonism and the Cosmo-Geological Field
“After the ‘fuori e contro’ (‘outside and against’) of the operaïst years, the ‘dentro e contro’ (‘inside and against’) of the struggle inside the Italian Communist Party, Mario Tronti’s compass, since Politics at Dusk, indicates a new fighting position: ‘aldilà e …
Undercomets: On the Structure of Antagonism and the Cosmo-Geological Field
„ES LEBE DIE COMMUNE UND MÖGE SIE UNS GLÜCK BRINGEN!”
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Die Commune als historisches Ereignis Niccolò Cuppini: Beginnen wir mit der Pariser Commune als historischem Ereignis. Was ist für Sie die Bedeutung der Commune in diesem historischen Moment, als ein Ereignis dieser Zeit, wie hat Marx …