The subject of this paper is this rather peculiar ideological use of the phenomenon of automation asserting the imminent end of labour. In sections 2and 3 we will approach the history and the content of these conceptions. In the following …
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
How does capitalism work through the web of life? How can we begin to understand capitalism not simply as an economic system of markets and production and a social system of class and culture, but as a way of organising …
John Milios & George Economakis Austerity constitutes the cornerstone of neoliberal policies. On the surface, itworks as a strategy of reducing entrepreneurial cost. Austerity reduces labour costs ofthe private sector, increases profit per (labour) unit cost and thereon boosts the …
The working class and the middle classes: Allies in a common anti-neoliberal strategy?
In Marx’s time, the proletarian potential for resistance did not arise primarily, as some Marxists still like to wish, from the struggle against the commodity form, but rather it was the techno-economic conditions of the transition from wood to coal …
It was a Thursday in August when all hell broke loose. The place was Logan County, West Virginia. The year was 1921. Over the next week, one million rounds of ammunition would be fired. Up to a hundred people were …
How the History of Class Struggle is Written on the Stock Market
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) …
Jonathan Beller’s new book, The World Computer, is on the intimate relation between information and power. Characterized by the author as “political in intention, speculative in execution, and concrete in its engagement” (70), the book touches on computers, photography, film, …
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 …
“Die Riots kommen; sie sind bereits da. Weitere sind unterwegs, daran besteht kein Zweifel. Und sie verdienen eine angemessene Theorie.” – Joshua Clover (2016) “You will notice the weather only when it starts to die.” – Sean Bonney (2016) Riots …
Die unerhörte Sprache des Riot. Joshua Clovers Riot.Strike.Riot.
Among other things, we try to establish a connection between the credit creation of private banks (and the central bank), general indebtedness and economic growth under capitalism, and all this with the inclusion of a critique of Modern Money Theory. …