Anthony, This is an extraordinary accomplishment. I don't think that anyone has provided a succinct and comprehensive survey of Marxist schools since Harry Cleaver's preface to "Reading Capital Politically" over 45 years ago.
I would not that the work we did in Midnight Notes, a group and publication I participated in for over 40 years, is not mentioned. While we were usually lumped in with Autonomist Marxism, in fact our work was always very critical, sometimes ferociously so, of work like Toni Negri's that abandoned the labor theory of value. We held to both the LTV and the original autonomist insights that working class struggle is the motor force of capital, and the centrality of class composition. Like World Systems Theorists, we emphasized the planetary scale of capitalist production and of the class struggles that forced it to continually develop in response. One of the people closest to us, though not technically in Midnight Notes was Silvia Federici, and indeed we saw unwaged reproductive labor and the struggles around such labor as crucial to any class project. I still think these things today, though I also provided a critique of some of the limits of our work in my book "Looking Over the Abyss." I would also mention, though I don't agree with it, Yanis Varoufakis' "Techno-Feudalism" thesis as either another Marxism of some type or perhaps akin to at least the analysis of Jodi Dean and Nick Weatherford. But yours is a contribution of great value (no pun intended) and represents an enormous amount of time and effort on all our behalf. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42411): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42411 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120214562/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
