oh wow, this is very cool! thank you for sharing comrade in solidarity, will
On Sat, Jul 11, 2026 at 7:10 PM steven colatrella via groups.io <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 (#42415): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42415 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
