> On 8 Jan 2018, at 11:55, Keith Hart <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I don't get what is new about this or how the book places itself in the
> history of the idea. I wonder if they consider, even within Marxist texts,
> Charles Bettelheim Economic Calculation and the Forms of Property. Monthly
> Review Press, 1975 (1963 in French) which argued that the Soviet Union was
> state capitalist, not socialist and indusrial management there hardly
> different at all from the US. This argument was put forward the other way
> round in Clark Kerr, John T. Dunlop, Frederick H. Harbison, and Charles A.
> Myers, Industrialism and Industrial Man: The Problem of Labor and Management
> in Economic Growth. Harvard University Press, 1960. Kerr was UC Berkeley’s
> first Chancellor, so I suppose that disqualifies him. And what about Peter
> Drucker who wrote over 40 books on and around this topic from 1932 to 2008
> (posthumous). See Peter Drucker, The Essential Drucker, Harper Busness, 2001.
> Drucker was vilified for claiming that GM was a badly run company while it is
> was still apparently successful and long before it collapsed.
The book is not out yet, but arguments the authors make in their recent
articles sound very important to me, when rethinking different versions of
corporatism as managerial class mediated consensus projects; since the
progressive era, new medievalism, guildism, institutionalism, Fabianism, social
democracy, state-capitalism (socialism), Keynesianism, fascism, as well as
third-way, or today's tech-technocracy, new-networked fascism and nazism
(http://www.cepremap.fr/membres/dlevy/biblioa.htm).
In the long 20th cc managerial class fractions played a mediator role, between
the ruling and ruled classes; capitalist and workers. They mediated their
ideologies; liberalism, conservatism, socialism, and communism. By making
alliances and formulating consensus based on compromise between them. Since the
90s with the emergence of ICTs neo-liberal managerialism and authoritarianism
it erect as a dominant class candidate, for itself, able to promote its own
agenda, as a new mode of production. Managerial capitalism (or platform
capitalism) refers this so-called and so-promoted post-capitalism of managerial
class.
The below recent piece, by Kees Van der Pijl, is complementary to their
argument I think:
https://www.academia.edu/35601607/Surveillance_Capitalism_and_Crisis
Best,
Orsan
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