The three main concepts of Lukács’ famous book History and Class Consciousness are already contained in the title: History, Class and Consciousness. 1 These three concepts are especially developed in the longest and most important essay of the book, “Reification […]
Lukács ’ Idea of Communism and its Blind Spot: Money
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
This paper establishes, and illustrates for the case of the UK, a temporal method for calculating the labour values of outputs from any process or sector of a market economy. It exhibits the temporal calculation of the Monetary Equivalent of
TIME, THE VALUE OF MONEY AND THE QUANTIFICATION OF VALUE
taken from destituencies A Note For the Reader A proper genealogy of the destitution thesis has yet to be written. The names, dates, and texts that follow are necessarily incomplete. This is because the very nature of destitution is something
Destituent Power: An Incomplete Timeline
Strength of hatred in Marx.Fighting spirit of the working class.Interlay revolutionary destruction and the idea of redemption.— Walter Benjamin, ‘Notes on the Concept of History,’ (1939) 1. To have repudiated with the utmost vehemence the political significance of Millenarianism is
From Theological to Historical Apocatastasis: Notes on Benjamin’s ‘Theologico-Political Fragment’
Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation Climate change has disproportionately negative effects on poorer countries and people of color, and disproportionally positive effects on receiving countries that benefit from hyper-exploitable and precious labor – what I call a
Climate change is a weapon of primitive accumulation
Rendering Marxism Real and Intelligible Marxism may have “lacked” the Real and tied its fate to the history-world. It may have consequently lacked the theory according-to-the-Real of this history-world. These are not just some “observations,” but a new style of
Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy
John Milios/ Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos A crucial aspect of nearly all contemporary approaches to imperialism is the idea that the domination of neoliberalism and of the globalized financial sector of the economy produces a predatory version of capitalism, a capitalism
Financialization:Market Discipline or Capital Discipline?
Elections Democracy and its instrument of choice are based on citizens handing over their powers to representatives or delegating them to a professional group that decides on their behalf. This implies a misjudgment, because only because the representatives exist does
Elections, State: Instruments of expropriation.
Under the aspect of the juxtaposition of commodity and money, Marx speaks in the first three chapters of Kapital Bd.1 of the commodity as a commodity form. If the development of value itself is addressed here at the same time,
taken from Ill Will Theses on the White Proletariat White people, like all people, are divided by politics and class. These divisions were revealed through the recent uprisings, which showed us that there are whites who are willing to go
The Return of John Brown: White Race-Traitors in the 2020 Uprising
Spyros Lapatsioras, John Milios and Dimitris Sotiropoulos Contemporary capitalism seems too far away from the implementation of any version of a good society. read here
Beyond Capitalism. Strategies for a Good Society in the “Era of Financialization”