Im nächsten Abschnitt behandelt Smith die Jobs im Servicesektor eingehender und konstatiert, dass in den USA vor allem in der Foodindustrie, im Pflegebereich und im privaten Servicebereich seit der Rezession 6,5 Millionen niedrig bezahlter Jobs geschaffen wurden. Vor einem starken […]
Automation. Zu Jason E. Smiths “Smart Machines and Service Work” (5)
In light of recent events surrounding Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, I’ve decided to provide my own critique of Non-Philosophy. In large part, I’m responding to my friend Jeremy R. Smith’s recent post which he asked me to do. For anyone interested in learning more
… In this context, financial risk is calculated on the basis of particular fetishistic representations of the events and outcomes of class struggle. Risk is the way capitalist agents perceive the future from an ideological point of view. Risk is
Commodity Fetishism vs. Capital Fetishism. Marx’s Reflections and Marxist Interpretations
Wie wir schon in Kapitalisierung Bd. 2 (Szepanski 2014b) angedeutet haben, hat der griechische Ökonom John Milios mit seiner, auf der Kapitallektüre von Louis Althusser aufbauenden, monetären Werttheorie, einen wichtigen Ansatz für eine exakte begriffliche Bestimmung des gegenwärtigen Kapitalverhältnisses angeboten.
The Class Relation Welcome back for the fourth and final lecture of ‘Marx After Growth’. I’m Sean O’Brien and this lecture series is brought to you buy the good people at the 87 press. You can find the lectures, including
Marx After Growth #4 The Class Relation
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
Marx After Growth #3 The History of Accumulation
This four-part lecture series asks what the Marxian critique of political economy can tell us about the twenty-first century, an historical moment marked by deindustrialization, economic stagnation, growing labour superfluity, and a political landscape in which the figure of the
Marx After Growth #1 An Introduction to Marx’s Critique
Das Maß als blinder Fleck der Kapitalismuskritik Frank Engster und Andreas Schröder Sohn-Rethel hat sich zur Mächtigkeit seiner erkenntniskritischen und an Kant orientierten Fragen nach der „Bedingung der Möglichkeit“ von empirisch reiner Geltung und mithin von neuzeitlicher Naturwissenschaft in kein
Alfred Sohn-Rethels große Idee und ihr Problem
An Essay on Value, Crises and the Capitalist Mode of Production John Milios, Dimitri Dimoulis, George Economakis Marx’s Critique of Political Economy constitutes not a “correction” of Classical Political Economy’s “mistakes” or “misunderstandings”, but the formation of a new theoretical
Presentation at the Panel Wither Real Abstraction?, Historical Materialism London Conference – Online 2020 Abstract: Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s epistemology enables a materialist account of the abstractions embodied by the species being of humanity, i.e., the “social relations” that include the questions
The Radical Dyad of the Non-Human: Thinking Inequality Beyond Identity as Reification
The need to increase the productivity of individual capital, which goes hand in hand with competition, leads to a decline in the value of goods, which may increase the rate of added value (m/v) due to the reduction in the
The notion of capital overaccumulation, as constructed by Marx in Volume 3 of Capital on the basis of his “preliminary definition” of “absolute overproduction”, is considered in this paper as the key element of Marx’s crisis theory. Following what the
ON MARX’S CRISIS THEORY IN THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF THE 3RD VOLUME OF CAPITAL