Here are some facts about Vladimiro Giacche (or Lenino Caca as I call him myself) for the few here who may not already know His Eminence or have yet to kiss his ring:
* Fourteen books (author or editor) and numerous papers on All that Is plus economics, including a brief study of Hegel's dialectic, writing on Hitler's Anschluss with Austria, and many other things. * Currently Head of Communication, Research and Strategic Marketing of Banca del Fucino S.p.A. * Präsident des Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituts Centro Europa , whatever that is. Probably sits next door to the Schuffhausen Institute or convenes in some sketchy bar-cafe off a superhighway but hey. There are a ton of these things. The Wikipedia article lists well over a dozen of the best-known ones. Their list does not include "centro Europa," which doesn't really prove anything. * Has lengthy Wikipedia bio. These things are sometimes written by their subjects or by indebted sycophants, but this one AFAIK does not appear to be. Per German Wikipedia FYI: *Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute können staatlich oder privat finanziert sein; in der Realität finden sich häufig Mischfinanzierungen. Die Institute sind oft an Universitäten angegliedert, um ein gegenseitiges Profitieren und einen Know-how-Transfer zu ermöglichen.* Gotta love that Know-how-Transfer and mutual benefit! So revolutionary! The books are all in Italian or German--in neither of which am I nearly adept enough to actually read long theoretical content, even with a pony. Maybe they're wonderful. Strategic marketing? Lenin in a Lamborghini waving an iPhone if you ask me--but sparing the highly offensive narcissistic ego and probable hypocrisy, there must be something in this substantial oeuvre worth engaging if only for the actual economists or economic historians on the list. I note that Giacche was an auditor before becoming King Log. Bank auditors, IMO, if not corrupt, are among the bourgeois professionals whose tedious but IMO not altogether uninteresting work--so easily dismissed as "bullshit" by autonomists and vulgar Graeberites--is essential to maintaining the technical infrastructure necessary to advanced industrial societies. I know about this from personal experience, so am inclined to respect this expertise rather more than all the terribly European pompous chest-pounding around the other things, especially "the dialectic," which has a particularly slippery history in Italy (see Giovanni Gentile ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Gentile ) ). Auditors, like the members of international standards bodies, know a thing or two that the rest of us ought to respect more than most of us do--especially many American radicals who are too busy listening to popular music to do any boring research. But "Lenino's" position that US imperialism is so monstrous that nothing else in history even comes close is not justified by the publication of a decent list of scholarly works on other subjects, if decent is what they actually are. Even the Praesident of an Institut must present this usually stupid argument for the outlier it is by Marxist standards-- pace the vernacular Left in the US, which continually asserts a version of this nonsense as proof of what what Louis Proyect has called their Manichean outlook. That said, I would be interested in knowing from the list whether anybody has anything good to say about the evidently well-known Giacche or can refer me to sources in English or French that show him in a better light than the one in which he has shown himself here. His bullying reflex moralistic anti-Americanism--coming from the country that invented fascism and has inflicted the Red Brigades and Silvio Berlusconi on the world--is IMO laughable as well as deeply offensive, but it is also dogma among European leftists. It could be set aside if there were something wonderful on the other side of its puny barrier. Maybe this guy is an Italian Michael Roberts--or David Harvey--or much more! A world of delight if one but had the senses to relish it!!!! References: See Italian Wikipedia piece ( https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimiro_Giacch%C3%A9 ) , and/or bio in English incl. bibliography ( https://independent.academia.edu/VladimiroGiacch%C3%A9 ) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#3759): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/3759 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/78398844/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
