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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Many Fragments on the Centrality of Wage Labour

14 Comments Posted by on October 22, 2008

Too long – and too sketchy – therefore below the fold with everything but the first paragraph (with the warning for readers tempted to click through that the hidden content does not do justice to the apparent theme)… Why does Marx maintain that wage labour is central to capitalism? Praxis points out in a recent [...]

Capital v.1, Conversations, Critical Theory, Current Events, Materialism, Metatheory, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

Historical Materialism Conference

14 Comments Posted by on October 15, 2008

I suppose I should mention that I’ll be presenting to the Historical Materialism Conference at SOAS in London, 7-9 November. I’ll post more details on the paper closer to the event – suffice to say that the paper I proposed way back when is… somewhat more esoteric than what I would propose to present now… [...]

Events

Fragment on Crisis, Contradiction and Critique (Updated)

2 Comments Posted by on October 14, 2008

Once again, very very tangentially related to discussions of the current crisis. And deeply underdeveloped. My contention is that Marx understands the “standpoint” of his critique to be potentials that could be released by a reconfiguration of the “materials” that we have made available to ourselves in constituting a particular aspect of our present form [...]

Contradiction, Critical Theory, Critique, Current Events, Metatheory, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity, Social Movements, Transformation

Fragment on State “Intervention”

Leave a Comment Posted by on October 14, 2008

This post will pick up in a very indirect way on some of the issues running through the discussion below on what kind of “state intervention” or what kind of “regulation” will emerge in relation to the current economic crisis. Two points. Very very tangential. First: it is somewhat common for commentators to write as [...]

Critical Theory, Political Economy

The Doing of Dialectics

1 Comment Posted by on October 14, 2008

Okay. I’m realising that I’m in a situation a bit like what happened a year ago, when I started thinking I really should write a quick post on Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism – and then realised I needed to outline a bit of background first – and then ended up with that background blowing [...]

Abstraction, Critical Theory, Materialism, Metatheory, Philosophy of History, Political Economy, Self-Reflexivity

Crisis Archive

6 Comments Posted by on October 13, 2008

Apologies again for the lack of posting recently – I’ll try to join the fray again very soon, and am particularly keen to pick up on elements of the discussion currently unfolding in relation to my last post: soon. In the meantime, I just wanted to archive a few introductory reference links on the crisis. [...]

Current Events, Links, Political Economy

Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists

13 Comments Posted by on October 1, 2008

The final paragraph from Luigi Zingales critique of the Paulson plan reads: The decisions that will be made this weekend matter not just to the prospects of the U.S. economy in the year to come; they will shape the type of capitalism we will live in for the next fifty years. Do we want to [...]

Critical Theory, Current Events, Philosophy of History, Political Economy

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