In the opinion of Georgios Stamatis, Marx, when presenting the law of the tendency of the general rate of profit, equates value and price, among other things in order to disregard the effect of the so-called Wicksell effects (including the […]
The law of the tendential fall of the general rate of profit in capital Bd.3
Taken from Ill Will Editions * * * * * The less you are, the less you express your own life, the more you have, the more pronounced is your alienated life, the greater is the aggregate of your alienated
The ‘Gemeinwesen’ Has Always Been Here: An Engagement with the Ideas of Jacques Camatte
Can China do much to fight back against the power wielded by the US in the world economy? At first sight, that looks unlikely. China is big, but world trade is conducted in dollars, and the US has economic, political
We sat down with Richard Gilman-Opalsky, author of Specters of Revolt, to talk about a “politics against politics”, the continuity of revolt, and the George Floyd rebellion. * * * * * Ill Will Editions: In your work, you have expressed
The Eternal Return of Revolt – A conversation with Richard Gilman-Opalsky
In the course of the industrial use of electricity, the emergence of new communication and transport technologies and routes (including their partial nationalization), the creeping process of dissolving the classical machinery of the industrial age or at least its integration
About the NON-Technological Use of Machines
“The other who is nobody…the a priori Other is defined in each system by its expressive value – in other words, its implicit and enveloping value […] The I and the Self, by contrast, are immediately characterised by functions of
A Baroque Heresy: Notes on Deleuze and Leibniz on the Concept
by François Laruelletranslated from the French by Jeremy R. Smith this piece first appeared in Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation A materialist politics of meaning1 [sens]1. There are at least two means of making a politics of meaning.
“Rebellious postulations”: from Beyond the Power Principle
I. Everything seems to force the opposition between non-philosophy and the philosophy that takes the equation mathematics=ontology as its ontological base. This opposition can be identified on four levels: 1. The central and guiding theme: on the one
Laruelle’s “Badiou and Non-Philosophy: a Parallel”
Karl Marx is the most historically foundational and systematic critic of capitalism to date, and the years since the 2008 financial crisis have witnessed a rebirth of his popular appeal. In a world of rising income inequality, right-wing nationalisms, and
Dieter Schnass writes in the context of the EU’s current aid measures in an article in Wirtschaftswoche that infinite debt is the business basis of the capitalist system: “… Without stimulus from governments and central banks the world economy would
Capitalisation is debt production sui generis
taken from Ill Will Jacques Camatte was a central figure in the theoretical debates of the Italian communist left in the sixties and seventies, in the wake of the exhaustion of the revolutionary horizon. Camatte has written dozens of essays
‘Inversion is not a strategy’ A Conversation with Jacques Camatte
