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Transition: End of the Debate
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...
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Epidemische Politik
Französisches Original: Couvre-fous Am 17. September 2020 wurde in Frankreich der Gesundheitsnotstand aufs Neue erklärt, verbunden mit einer weiteren Ausgangssperre. Wer gegen die Regelung verstößt,...
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Value Form and Abstract Labor in Marx: A Critical Review of Alfred...
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...
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Trauriger Eros
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Dieser Text erschien am 28. November 2020 auf commune info „Diejenigen, die das Verlangen zurückhalten, tun dies, weil ihres schwach genug ist, um zurückgehalten zu werden“...
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Money and Capital
As we have already indicated in Capitalization Vol. 2 (Szepanski 2014b), the Greek economist John Milios, with his monetary value theory based on Louis Althusser's reading of capital, has offered an...
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Finance under state capitalism: Re-conceptualising capital markets through...
... As I argue in an article that was recently published in Economy & Society, states can potentially exercise a considerable degree of control over financialization, thereby shaping its very...
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Communist Capitalism
The form of capitalism that is being consolidated on a planetary scale is not that which it had assumed in the West: it is, rather, capitalism in its communist variation, which unites an extremely...
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Geld und Kapital
Wie wir schon in Kapitalisierung Bd. 2 (Szepanski 2014b) angedeutet haben, hat der griechische Ökonom John Milios mit seiner, auf der Kapitallektüre von Louis Althusser aufbauenden, monetären...
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(Spanien) Eine Welt, die nicht mehr
Von der Grupo Barbaria, die Übersetzung ist von Soligruppe für Gefangene Eine Welt, die nicht mehr Es gibt Zeiten, in denen man innehält, um sich dieses System anzuschauen, und man bekommt ein...
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Studies in Superlative Discorrelation
Shane Denson's new book Discorrelated Images has captured my attention in recent weeks. It's a fascinating investigation into the contemporary image, with an emphasis on cinema but spilling over into...
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COVID – Ovid 19* (20,21) Das Kalte kämpft mit dem Heissen, das Nasse mit dem...
Was ist Corona ? Na, wenn wir wissen wollen was Corona ist, dann lassen wir es doch zunächst einmal rein.°* Corona Virus Disease 2019 / oder was man dem so anhaftet, was einem anhaftet. Covid 19 - so...
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On the Current Conjuncture
A rational political evaluation of the present conjuncture has become a genuine rarity. Between the catastrophist homilies emanating from the most unwittingly religious sectors of environmentalism (we...
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The Limits of Capitalized Power: A 2020 U.S. Update
Until the late 2000s, our work focused primarily on why capitalism should be understood as a mode of power. We argued that capital itself is a form of organized power and researched how capitalists...
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The Transclassic Machine (G. Anders, H.D. Bahr, F. Neyrat, G. Simondon)
If one follows the theory of technical objects as developed by the French theorist Gilbert Simondon (Simondon 2012), and subsequently Frédéric Neyrat's statements in the anthology The Technological...
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Samstag ist Regenschirm Tag
taken from Sūnzǐ Bīngfǎ Wenn es den Schwarzen Block nicht gäbe, müssten wir ihn erfinden. Olivier Lang (Eine Hommage an Marius Jacob) Für diejenigen unter Ihnen, die es noch nicht wissen: Sie haben...
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Order reigns but doesn`t govern
“…what can be said of a political sequence wherein a disparate set of events such as these come to serve as its inflection points? They are, if anything, the serial expression of a collective desire...
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Science and Philosophy: A Global Re-Evaluation
... Let us take the following axioms which guide us in the description of non-philosophy: 1) Philosophy is the capital within thought, the capital-form of our general relations to the World; it is an...
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Translation of two excerpts by Jacques Fradin
Today, I (Jeremy R. Smith) present two subsections from two untranslated texts by the heretical Marxist economist, Jacques Fradin. His texts are, first, La science des pauvres: traité de la richesse...
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GEMEINSAME ERKLÄRUNG EINES TEILS DES EUROPAS VON UNTEN UND DER EZLN.
AN DIE PUEBLOS, DIE VÖLKER DER WELT.AN DIE MENSCHEN, DIE IN EUROPA KÄMPFEN. read here: EZLN_Einladung_Erklaerung_Gemeinsames_Kommunique_1._Januar_2021_neuerHerunterladen
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Corporate Power and the Future of U.S. Capitalism
Corporate power in the United States has risen to unprecedented levels, but the rate at which this power has grown is decelerating. Both facts have important implications for the future of U.S....
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