First, according to Marx’s argument, isolated individual capitals within a social formation, are transformed through competition (and not through the political influence of the state exercised from outside, as, e.g. Hardt and Negri [2000: 304-5] mistakenly maintain), into elements of …
Nation, Imperialism, War. A critique of mainstream theories of imperialism
Marxist economist Anwar Shaikh has written a monumental book. His thousand-plus page work Capitalism. Competition, Conflict, Crises is anything but a textbook and presupposes a basic knowledge of neoclassicism, Keynesianism and Marxist theory. It is also enriched with a sophisticated …
Notes on Anwar Shaikh`s „Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises“
The power of particularity, of minority, has its model or universal consciousness in the proletarian.“ Deleuze/Guattari When Marxist positions address the question of heteronomy and the autonomy of struggles, they do so in the context of a process sustained by …
For my commentary there are two issues to highlight. The first can be anticipated and raises a problem with Fraser’s dual-systems theorising and her emphasis on the institutionalised social order of capitalism as a series of separations between the structures …
Let’s cut straight to the heart of the matter: following the large demonstrations against pension “reforms,” President Macron decided to “force his way” by bypassing parliament and imposing a sovereign decision to adopt a law raising the retirement age from …
In 2023, following the economic upheavals of the Corona pandemic, the question of a coming financial crisis is once again becoming more urgent. There is now even talk of „polycrises“ that go far beyond the financial sphere. In a polycrisis, …
For a further explanation of the concept of capital, we refer to French philosopher François Laruelle, who, in his conception of non-philosophy, speaks of “unilateral duality”. He generally first assumes that two or more terms and their relations are always …
The term “quantitative easing” (QE) describes measures taken by central banks, such as the permanent purchase of mostly long-term securities and government bonds, which are held by commercial banks, when interest rates are already at zero and an expansive monetary …
The fat years: CentralBanks and The Politics of Quantitative Easing
I think Felix Guattari and I have remained Marxists, in our two different ways, perhaps, but both of us.CONTROL AND BECOMINGGILLES DELEUZE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANTONIO NEGRI The final book Deleuze was working on before his untimely death, ‘Grandeur de …
It is evident, when the system is viewed against the backdrop of the logic of financial capital in the context of the U.S. boom-bust-bailout economy alone, that it requires the ad hoc intervention of states and central banks for its …
Nick Dyer-Witheford, Bue Rübner Hansen and Emanuele Leonardi Read Part II and Part III QUESTION 1: How do you define degrowth? Nick: Over the last few years the intensifying climate emergency and other ecological crises has stirred a surge of …
Endnotes interview with Pavlos Roufos … To undertand this I also think a wider framework is necessary, and I find Daniela Gabor’s work indispensable: rather than pointing towards a return to state-led “fiscal dominance”, Gabor shows that QE should be …