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 …
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
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 …
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 …
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) …
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 …
“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
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 …
The Test of Communism Jasper Bernes Communism is an old idea in the world. Let’s call it ancient, for it may as well be our antiquity. We need not track down its origins in the alleyways of insurrection, only know …
Gert Reuten liefert mit seinem Buch The Unity of the Capitalist Economy and State eine umfassende Analyse der Kapitalökonomie und des kapitalistischen Staates, die mit mathematischen Darstellungen, Daten, Graphiken und weiterem empirischen Material gespickt ist. In drei Abschnitten werden die …
ZU Geert reutens “The Unity of the Capitalist Economy and State”
To Luka Stojanovic What is this new ecological science present in Laruelle’s The Last Humanity, and what exactly makes it ‘new’? As another introduction, another invention, The Last Humanity carves out the space of verticality that dominant and majoritarian practices of ecology, as …
Humanity on the Threshold? – Some Notes On Eco-Fiction or Ordinary Ecology
In the early part of this century a debate erupted among Russian and German economists. It was started by Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital , which asked the question: how can capitalism reproduce itself? It was continued by many, including …