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On 2018/12/24 16:20, Philip Ferguson via Marxism wrote:
*"Rosa Remix *is downloadable at http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/rosa-remix-3/.
The book was published “with support from the German Federal Foreign
Office” and has been promoted and distributed by the Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA). . ."
full at:
https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/09/05/rosa-remixed-up-100-years-after-the-accumulation-of-capital/
Hi Phil,
As usual, thanks for posting from rdln. But as I vaguely recall arguing
with you before at some point, Walter's way too cranky:
"Another author who deals with imperialism is Patrick Bond from South
Africa, who effectively dissects his country’s sub-imperialist
exploitation of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa (and more generally the
BRICS’ pretensions to anti-imperialism), as he often does. But here he
also seems to be trying to shoehorn the data into Luxemburg’s particular
theory, even though he says (in parentheses) that her “orientation to
[Marx’s] reproduction schemas” was “ultimately mistaken.” He repeatedly
quotes her statements to the effect that “capital cannot accumulate
without the aid of non-capitalist relations.” But the main examples he
provides are those of extractive industries that strip the continent of
minerals, and he vividly describes the infamous massacre of platinum
miners at Marikana in 2012. How is this an example of
“super-exploitative relations between capitalist and non-capitalist
spheres” being confirmed in Africa today?"
Look, for so many marxist scholars working in this sphere of capitalist
'accumulation by dispossession,' we have much more acute consciousness
of the 'free gifts of nature' as well as the free gifts of social
reproduction (women's unpaid labour), than did earlier generations.
In the current edition of Paul Zarembka's journal Research in Political
Economy, I have a very long explanation of how in Africa, consistent
with Luxemburg's 1913 book The Accumulation of Capital, the
commodity-based capitalist/non-capitalist relations can be understood -
and measured at around $150 billion annual net loss, which is far
greater than profit repatriation and illicit financial outflows from
Africa.
Here's a link -
https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/S0161-723020180000033004
- but I'm not sure if there's a non-paywalled copy so if you want my
galley-stage version, do let me know...
Cheers,
Patrick
Ecological-Economic Narratives for Resisting Extractive Industries in
Africa, in Paul Cooney , William Sacher Freslon (ed.) Environmental
Impacts of Transnational Corporations in the Global South (Research in
Political Economy, Volume 33) Emerald Publishing Limited, pp.73 - 110
Abstract
The World Bank report Changing Wealth of Nations 2018 is only the
most recent reminder of how much poorer Africa is becoming, losing more
than US$100 billion annually from minerals, oil, and gas extraction,
according to (quite conservatively framed) environmentally sensitive
adjustments of wealth. With popular opposition to socioeconomic,
political, and ecological abuses rising rapidly in Africa, a robust
debate may be useful: between those practicing anti-extractivist
resistance, and those technocrats in states and international agencies
who promote “ecological modernization” strategies. The latter typically
aim to generate full-cost environmental accounting, and to do so they
typically utilize market-related techniques to value, measure, and price
nature. Between the grassroots and technocratic standpoints, a layer of
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) do not yet appear capable of
grappling with anti-extractivist politics with either sufficient
intellectual tools or political courage. They instead revert to easier
terrains within ecological modernization: revenue transparency, project
damage mitigation, Free Prior and Informed Consent (community
consultation and permission), and other assimilationist reforms. More
attention to political-economic and political-ecological trends –
including the end of the commodity super-cycle, worsening climate
change, financial turbulence and the potential end of a 40-year long
globalization process – might assist anti-extractivist activists and NGO
reformers alike. Both could then gravitate to broader, more effective
ways of conceptualizing extraction and unequal ecological exchange,
especially in Africa’s hardest hit and most extreme sites of devastation.
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