The Marxist concept of value is radically different from the Ricardian con-cept of value as ‘labor expended’. Unlike the Ricardian theory of value, the Marxist theory of value is a monetary theory. In the Marxist system, the value of a […]
While the terms ‘socialism’ and ‘communism’ have often been used interchangeably, Marx offers multiple formulations that clarify their relation. His schematic account sets them as distinct but linked moments on a historical trajectory, with the lower stage of socialism retaining
At the beginning of May 2020, hunger riots erupted in Santiago, Chile. Lockdowns had deprived men and women of their incomes to the point of near starvation. A large movement of self-organized community kitchens soon spread across the country. Later
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Covid, Kapitalismus, Streiks und Solidarität: Ein Interview mit Asia Art Tours
Social subjection, however, is only one form, strategy and method of constituting the modern subject. Let us therefore turn to the second important form of subjectivation, the individual. Deleuze/Guattari call this process, which is different from social subjection, and which
Deleuze: The Machinic Enslavement and the Dividual in Control Societies
First published in Coils of The Serpent: ISSUE 6 (2020): CONTROL SOCIETIES II: PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, ECONOMY In his discussion of the transition from the cinema of the movement-image to the cinema of the time-image, Deleuze famously makes way for the
Zones on Trauma: On Deleuze and Control
The interconnection or linking of government and financial capital is written now in academic literature today as the operational-organisational state-financial nexus. (Cf. Malik 2014) This state-financial nexus (the state’s management of the economy by ministries of finance, central banks, informal
The Financial Capital – State Nexus
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
The Esoteric Marx This second lecture picks up on some key points from the first lecture to explore the ‘esoteric’ Marx, a subterranean current of Marxian thought distinct from the ‘exoteric’ Marx of the workers’ movement. I therefore want to
Marx After Growth #2 The Esoteric Marx
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
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