Fredric Jameson, for some time one of this country’s foremost Marxist intellectuals, has recently published three studies related in some way to dialectics: Valences of the Dialectic (2009), The Hegel Variations (2010), and Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One (2011). The following is a preview of this last, along with some thoughts on the [...]
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Capitalism: Some disassembly required
Nicole Pepperill has been at work for some on a close reading of Marx, and especially of Capital, showing the ways in which Marx’s style and complex but precisely-thought organization must be taken into account in ways they have not been in readings which have historically been wooden and overly literal. What follows is an [...]
Some contributions to thinking in the present moment
There’s a new wind blowing across this globalized world, from Tunisia to Egypt to Greece to Spain to Occupy Wall Street. How do the theoretical investigations of this site relate to this, to what’s new and emerging? This question of the emergence of novelty, of understanding this very changing world so as to help to [...]
Financialization and hegemony
How does (or can) theoretical investigations relate to the rapidly developing “Occupy….” movement? This is a question I was asked recently, and to which I don’t have a ready answer. But the following essay covers a lot of important ground whose relationship to the present moment should be clear — the need for a revolutionary subject, [...]
Can capitalism exit from this crisis?
Perhaps it’s time to resume some discussion of the economic crisis. The author of the following, Anselm Jappe, teaches philosophy in Italy and is a member of the Krisis-Gruppe. Translated from the Spanish translation posted at Comunización: Materiales para una concepción integral del movimiento comunista, and republished here from libcom. Who Is To Blame? Anselm Jappe [...]
To what extent is revolutionary theory detachable?
John Steele We’ve had a continuing discussion on this site of the status, relevance, and use of Marxism (and other ‘-isms’ – Lenin, Mao, and anarch) today, in relation to revolutionary work or the possibilities of an emancipatory politics in today’s world. Most recently, we’ve had some debate and a series of contributions, beginning with [...]
Should Marxism have a privileged status?
Following is a response to Steele’s August 1 piece below. Vern Gray has written several essays appearing on khukuri. I think it is confusing, and leads in a wrong direction, to conclude that there were or are “many Marxisms.”… I would argue that some ideologies and politics should be assigned a “privileged position”—not that our conclusions should be limited [...]
Marxism or anarchism or —?
We need a politics we haven’t got John Steele In another context in which I’m involved the subject has come up, sometimes rather heatedly, of the critique of Marxism from an anarchist perspective. Now this is a debate I’ve heard for 40+ years, from both sides, and usually posed in the same rather abstract terms. [...]
What is communization?
Communization (to give it anon-British spelling) is the name for a theory or approach developed by Gilles Dauvé and others. Perhaps its central thesis is that a communist revolution begins its work of “communization” from the very first day. But, although the approach stems from this basic anti-stagist thesis, it does not represent a revolutionary [...]
What is the function of ‘fetishism’ in Marx?
Marx’ final section, in the first chapter of Capital I, on the fetishism of commodities, is of obvious importance, but its difficulties have often defeated the first-time reader of this central text. Even among those who believe they have a comprehension of these 20-odd paragraphs, however, the understanding is often a relatively crude one, lacking [...]
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