[Marxism-Thaxis] [Historical Materialism]

[c b]

When, at last, it becomes the real representative of the whole of
society, it renders itself unnecessary. As soon as there is no longer
any social class to be held in subjection; as soon as class rule, and
the individual struggle for existence based upon our present anarchy
in production, with the collisions and excesses arising from these,
are removed, nothing more remains to be repressed, and a special
repressive force, a State, is no longer necessary. The first act by
virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative
of the whole of society — the taking possession of the means of
production in the name of society — this is, at the same time, its
last independent act as a State. State interference in social
relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then
dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the
administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of
production. The State is not "abolished". It dies out. This gives the
measure of the value of the phrase: "a free State", both as to its
justifiable use at times by agitators, and as to its ultimate
scientific inefficiency; and also of the demands of the so-called
anarchists for the abolition of the State out of hand.

Since the historical appearance of the capitalist mode of production,
the appropriation by society of all the means of production has often
been dreamed of, more or less vaguely, by individuals, as well as by
sects, as the ideal of the future. But it could become possible, could
become a historical necessity, only when the actual conditions for its
realization were there. Like every other social advance, it becomes
practicable, not by men understanding that the existence of classes is
in contradiction to justice, equality, etc., not by the mere
willingness to abolish these classes, but by virtue of certain new
economic conditions. The separation of society into an exploiting and
an exploited class, a ruling and an oppressed class, was the necessary
consequences of the deficient and restricted development of production
in former times. So long as the total social labor only yields a
produce which but slightly exceeds that barely necessary for the
existence of all; so long, therefore, as labor engages all or almost
all the time of the great majority of the members of society — so
long, of necessity, this society is divided into classes. Side by side
with the great majority, exclusively bond slaves to labor, arises a
class freed from directly productive labor, which looks after the
general affairs of society: the direction of labor, State business,
law, science, art, etc. It is, therefore, the law of division of labor
that lies at the basis of the division into classes. But this does not
prevent this division into classes from being carried out by means of
violence and robbery, trickery and fraud. it does not prevent the
ruling class, once having the upper hand, from consolidating its power
at the expense of the working-class, from turning its social
leadership into an intensified exploitation of the masses.

But if, upon this showing, division into classes has a certain
historical justification, it has this only for a given period, only
under given social conditions. It was based upon the insufficiency of
production. It will be swept away by the complete development of
modern productive forces. And, in fact, the abolition of classes in
society presupposes a degree of historical evolution at which the
existence, not simply of this or that particular ruling class, but of
any ruling class at all, and, therefore, the existence of class
distinction itself, has become a obsolete anachronism. It presupposes,
therefore, the development of production carried out to a degree at
which appropriation of the means of production and of the products,
and, with this, of political domination, of the monopoly of culture,
and of intellectual leadership by a particular class of society, has
become not only superfluous but economically, politically,
intellectually, a hindrance to development.

This point is now reached. Their political and intellectual bankruptcy
is scarcely any longer a secret to the bourgeoisie themselves. Their
economic bankruptcy recurs regularly every 10 years. In every crisis,
society is suffocated beneath the weight of its own productive forces
and products, which it cannot use, and stands helpless, face-to-face
with the absurd contradiction that the producers have nothing to
consume, because consumers are wanting. The expansive force of the
means of production burst the bonds that the capitalist mode of
production had imposed upon them. Their deliverance from these bonds
is the one precondition for an unbroken, constantly-accelerated
development of the productive forces, and therewith for a practically
unlimited increase of production itself. Nor is this all. The
socialized appropriation of the means of production does away, not
only with the present artificial restriction

[Marxism-Thaxis] [Historical materialism]

[c b]

The fact that the socialized organization of production within the
factory has developed so far that it has become incompatible with the
anarchy of production in society, which exists side by side with and
dominates it, is brought home to the capitalist themselves by the
violent concentration of capital that occurs during crises, through
the ruin of many large, and a still greater number of small,
capitalists. The whole mechanism of the capitalist mode of production
breaks down under the pressure of the productive forces, its own
creations. It is no longer able to turn all this mass of means of
production into capital. They lie fallow, and for that very reason the
industrial reserve army must also lie fallow. Means of production,
means of subsistence, available laborers, all the elements of
production and of general wealth, are present in abundance. But
"abundance becomes the source of distress and want" (Fourier), because
it is the very thing that prevents the transformation of the means of
production and subsistence into capital. For in capitalistic society,
the means of production can only function when they have undergone a
preliminary transformation into capital, into the means of exploiting
human labor-power. The necessity of this transformation into capital
of the means of production and subsistence stands like a ghost between
these and the workers. It alone prevents the coming together of the
material and personal levers of production; it alone forbids the means
of production to function, the workers to work and live. On the one
hand, therefore, the capitalistic mode of production stands convicted
of its own incapacity to further direct these productive forces. On
the other, these productive forces themselves, with increasing energy,
press forward to the removal of the existing contradiction, to the
abolition of their quality as capital, to the practical recognition of
their character as social production forces.

This rebellion of the productive forces, as they grow more and more
powerful, against their quality as capital, this stronger and stronger
command that their social character shall be recognized, forces the
capital class itself to treat them more and more as social productive
forces, so far as this is possible under capitalist conditions. The
period of industrial high pressure, with its unbounded inflation of
credit, not less than the crash itself, by the collapse of great
capitalist establishments, tends to bring about that form of the
socialization of great masses of the means of production which we meet
with in the different kinds of joint-stock companies. Many of these
means of production and of distribution are, from the outset, so
colossal that, like the railways, they exclude all other forms of
capitalistic expansion. At a further stage of evolution, this form
also becomes insufficient. The producers on a large scale in a
particular branch of an industry in a particular country unite in a
"Trust", a union for the purpose of regulating production. They
determine the total amount to be produced, parcel it out among
themselves, and thus enforce the selling price fixed beforehand. But
trusts of this kind, as soon as business becomes bad, are generally
liable to break up, and on this very account compel a yet greater
concentration of association. The whole of a particular industry is
turned into one gigantic joint-stock company; internal competition
gives place to the internal monopoly of this one company. This has
happened in 1890 with the English alkali production, which is now,
after the fusion of 48 large works, in the hands of one company,
conducted upon a single plan, and with a capital of 6,000,000 pounds.

In the trusts, freedom of competition changes into its very opposite —
into monopoly; and the production without any definite plan of
capitalistic society capitulates to the production upon a definite
plan of the invading socialistic society. Certainly, this is so far
still to the benefit and advantage of the capitalists. But, in this
case, the exploitation is so palpable, that it must break down. No
nation will put up with production conducted by trusts, with so
barefaced an exploitation of the community by a small band of
dividend-mongers.

In any case, with trusts or without, the official representative of
capitalist society — the state — will ultimately have to undertake the
direction of production. [4] This necessity for conversion into State
property is felt first in the great institutions for intercourse and
communication — the post office, the telegraphs, the railways.

If the crises demonstrate the incapacity of the bourgeoisie for
managing any longer modern productive forces, the transformation of
the great establishments for production and distribution into
joint-stock companies, trusts, and State property, show how
unnecessary the bourgeoisie are for that purpose. All the social
functions of the capitalist has no further social function than that
of pocketing divid

[Marxism-Thaxis] [Historical Materialism]

[c b]

Frederick Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific




III
[Historical Materialism]





The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that
the production of the means to support human life and, next to
production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all
social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history,
the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into
classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is
produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view,
the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are
to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's better insights into
eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production
and exchange.

^

CB: Notice it is the _changes and revolutions_ that caused by
_changes_ in infrastructure.  Marxism doesn't hold that
infra-structure continuously determines super-structure, but only that
changes in infra-structure determine changes in super-structure.

^^^

They are to be sought, not in the philosophy, but in the economics of
each particular epoch. The growing perception that existing social
institutions are unreasonable and unjust, that reason has become
unreason, and right wrong [1], is only proof that in the modes of
production and exchange changes have silently taken place with which
the social order, adapted to earlier economic conditions, is no longer
in keeping. From this it also follows that the means of getting rid of
the incongruities that have been brought to light must also be
present, in a more or less developed condition, within the changed
modes of production themselves. These means are not to be invented by
deduction from fundamental principles, but are to be discovered in the
stubborn facts of the existing system of production.

What is, then, the position of modern Socialism in this connection?

The present situation of society — this is now pretty generally
conceded — is the creation of the ruling class of today, of the
bourgeoisie. The mode of production peculiar to the bourgeoisie,
known, since Marx, as the capitalist mode of production, was
incompatible with the feudal system, with the privileges it conferred
upon individuals, entire social ranks and local corporations, as well
as with the hereditary ties of subordination which constituted the
framework of its social organization. The bourgeoisie broke up the
feudal system and built upon its ruins the capitalist order of
society, the kingdom of free competition, of personal liberty, of the
equality, before the law, of all commodity owners, of all the rest of
the capitalist blessings. Thenceforward, the capitalist mode of
production could develop in freedom. Since steam, machinery, and the
making of machines by machinery transformed the older manufacture into
modern industry, the productive forces, evolved under the guidance of
the bourgeoisie, developed with a rapidity and in a degree unheard of
before. But just as the older manufacture, in its time, and
handicraft, becoming more developed under its influence, had come into
collision with the feudal trammels of the guilds, so now modern
industry, in its complete development, comes into collision with the
bounds within which the capitalist mode of production holds it
confined. The new productive forces have already outgrown the
capitalistic mode of using them. And this conflict between productive
forces and modes of production is not a conflict engendered in the
mind of man, like that between original sin and divine justice. It
exists, in fact, objectively, outside us, independently of the will
and actions even of the men that have brought it on. Modern Socialism
is nothing but the reflex, in thought, of this conflict in fact; its
ideal reflection in the minds, first, of the class directly suffering
under it, the working class.

Now, in what does this conflict consist?

Before capitalist production — i.e., in the Middle Ages — the system
of petty industry obtained generally, based upon the private property
of the laborers in their means of production; in the country, the
agriculture of the small peasant, freeman, or serf; in the towns, the
handicrafts organized in guilds. The instruments of labor — land,
agricultural implements, the workshop, the tool — were the instruments
of labor of single individuals, adapted for the use of one worker,
and, therefore, of necessity, small, dwarfish, circumscribed. But, for
this very reason, they belonged as a rule to the producer himself. To
concentrate these scattered, limited means of production, to enlarge
them, to turn them into the powerful levers of production of the
present day — this was precisely the historic role of capitalist
production and of its upholder, the bourgeoisie. In the fourth section
of Capital

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ther conference? Thanks for an answer. Stephen Steiger


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HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE:
NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARXIST THEORY

in collaboration with THE ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE
COMMITTEE and SOCIALIST REGISTER

8-10 DECEMBER 2006
CENTRAL LONDON
Further details will be sent to registered participants.

PLEASE NOTE: PREREGISTRATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] GIVING YOUR FULL NAME IS ESSENTIAL 
AS PLACES ARE LIMITED. UNREGISTERED PEOPLE MAY BE REFUSED ENTRANCE 
DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS


Subjects discussed will include: the transformation problem; variable
capital; Marx's journalism, Otto Bauer´s analysis of the world crisis
of the 1930s; non-equilibrium economics; the labour theory of value;
financial and industrial capital; the euro and labour integration;
finance and the law of value; the domestic labour debate; the 
political economy of contemporary capitalism; the legacy of Karl 
Polanyi; the

political economy of Turkey and Latin America; Marxism, Islam and the
Middle East; Islamism, imperialism and global feminism; the work of
Maxime Rodinson; Islam and capitalism; the labour process and
resistance in the neo-liberal welfare state; the labour movement;
migration; land reform in East Asia and capitalist transitions;
commodity chains; waste and capitalism; global capitalism and urban
violence; globalisation; theories of imperialism; capital 
accumulation and the state system; oil and rise of Asia; the 
governance of global
capitalism; China and Cultural Revolution; Nepal and Maoism; China 
and future of the global economy; accumumation by dispossession; 
economic
theory and economics imperialism; Althusser and philosophy; Marxism 
and critical realism; Italian Marxism; Lukacs; Carl Schmitt; Deleuze;

Foucault and governmentality studies;  Marxism and political
subjectivity; Spinoza; early Soviet history; Russia in the 1920s;
theories of the Soviet Union; Lenin rediscovered; bourgeois
revolutions; passive revolutions; Chris Wickham and the Middle Ages;
Marxism and international law; Marxism and theology; the US National
Security Strategy, Hurricane Katrina, and contemporary warfare
technologies; the historical uncanny; Marxism and scifi; US leftist
theatre; 'political' filmmakers in the United States; Victor Serge´s
approach to literature; Zizek, nationalism and Kusturica; the future
for committed cultural criticism; Marxism and music; the life and
legacy of Ernest Mandel; Marx, Gramsci and anti-oppression politics;
Engels's late letters; Karl Kautsky; class and morality; 
republicanism; Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas today; Marxian 
political theory;

the Communist Manifesto; Marxist philosophy of language; Marxism and
social movements;...
and much more!

On Friday evening, the winner of the 2005 Deutscher Memorial Prize,
Kevin Murphy, will deliver his Prize Lecture.

The conference will include two Socialist Register plenary sessions 
to launch the 2007 issue on the ecological crisis: can capitalism 
prevail? and on eco-socialism, democratic planning and political 
strategy




Gilbert Achcar eg Albo mar Altvater niel Ankarloo r> >Christopher 
Arthur m Ashman rlos Astarita tila Aytekin r> >Jennifer Bair igail 
Bakan irus Banaji mmani Bannerji r> >Richard Barrett lin Barkeryde 
Barrow an Batou tthew
Beaumont nar Bedirhanoglu ccardo Bellofiore niel Bensaid r> >Halil 
Berktay nry Bernstein kesh Bhandari ul Blackledge r> >Roland Boer 
nuela Bojadzijev rner Bonefeld ll Bowring r> >Craig Brandist rs 
Bretthauer mon Bromley rolyn A. Brown r> >Ian Buchanan niel Buck ter 
Burnham ex Callinicos vid

Camfield ul Cammack am Campling glielmo Carchedi ria
Elisa Cevasco ncent Charbonnier arad Chari vek Chibber r> >Simon 
Clarke ex Colas reth Dale il Davidson ssimo de

Angelis thryn Dean ex Demirovic nali Desai dhika Desai
an Ducange chael Dutton ward Engelskirchen rbara
Epstein at Ercan cmi Erdogan n Fine berto Fineschi r> >Milton Fisk rl 
Freedman an Freeman bio Frosini mes
Furner exander Gallas il Gasper drew Glyn ter Gowan r> >Richard 
Greeman ldun Gulalp exei Gusev rek Hall ter

Hallward ris Harman vid Harvey nry Heller hini Hensman
ke Hill an Homer sula Huws bert Jessop nathan
Joseph gela Joya hn Kannankulam hn Kelly off Kennedy r> >Jim Kincaid 
drew Kliman m Knafo athis Kouvelakis chael
Krätke ck Kuhn ierry Labica kko Lahtinen vid Laibman r> >Ines 
Langemeyer stas Lapavitsas ex Law ul LeBlanc r> >Jean-Jacques 
Lecercle ther Leslie lin Leys rs Lih rcel
van der Lin

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[steiger2001]

Would you please tell me if there will be any printed "outcome" of ther 
conference? Thanks for an answer. Stephen Steiger

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> Od: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Předmět: [Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE - 
> PLEASECIRCULATE WIDELY
>
>HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE:
>NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARXIST THEORY
>
>in collaboration with THE ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE 
>COMMITTEE and SOCIALIST REGISTER
>
>8-10 DECEMBER 2006
>CENTRAL LONDON
>Further details will be sent to registered participants.
>
>PLEASE NOTE: PREREGISTRATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] GIVING YOUR FULL NAME IS ESSENTIAL AS PLACES ARE LIMITED. 
>UNREGISTERED PEOPLE MAY BE REFUSED ENTRANCE DUE TO SPACE LIMITATIONS
>
>Subjects discussed will include: the transformation problem; variable 
>capital; Marx's journalism, Otto Bauer´s analysis of the world crisis 
>of the 1930s; non-equilibrium economics; the labour theory of value; 
>financial and industrial capital; the euro and labour integration; 
>finance and the law of value; the domestic labour debate; the political 
>economy of contemporary capitalism; the legacy of Karl Polanyi; the 
>political economy of Turkey and Latin America; Marxism, Islam and the 
>Middle East; Islamism, imperialism and global feminism; the work of 
>Maxime Rodinson; Islam and capitalism; the labour process and 
>resistance in the neo-liberal welfare state; the labour movement; 
>migration; land reform in East Asia and capitalist transitions; 
>commodity chains; waste and capitalism; global capitalism and urban 
>violence; globalisation; theories of imperialism; capital accumulation and the 
>state system; oil and rise of Asia; the governance of global 
>capitalism; China and Cultural Revolution; Nepal and Maoism; China and future 
>of the global economy; accumumation by dispossession; economic 
>theory and economics imperialism; Althusser and philosophy; Marxism and 
>critical realism; Italian Marxism; Lukacs; Carl Schmitt; Deleuze; 
>Foucault and governmentality studies;  Marxism and political 
>subjectivity; Spinoza; early Soviet history; Russia in the 1920s; 
>theories of the Soviet Union; Lenin rediscovered; bourgeois 
>revolutions; passive revolutions; Chris Wickham and the Middle Ages; 
>Marxism and international law; Marxism and theology; the US National 
>Security Strategy, Hurricane Katrina, and contemporary warfare 
>technologies; the historical uncanny; Marxism and scifi; US leftist 
>theatre; 'political' filmmakers in the United States; Victor Serge´s 
>approach to literature; Zizek, nationalism and Kusturica; the future 
>for committed cultural criticism; Marxism and music; the life and 
>legacy of Ernest Mandel; Marx, Gramsci and anti-oppression politics; 
>Engels's late letters; Karl Kautsky; class and morality; republicanism; Ralph 
>Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas today; Marxian political theory; 
>the Communist Manifesto; Marxist philosophy of language; Marxism and 
>social movements;...
>and much more!
>
>On Friday evening, the winner of the 2005 Deutscher Memorial Prize, 
>Kevin Murphy, will deliver his Prize Lecture.
>
>The conference will include two Socialist Register plenary sessions to launch 
>the 2007 issue on the ecological crisis: can capitalism prevail? and on 
>eco-socialism, democratic planning and political strategy
>
>
>
>Gilbert Achcar eg Albo mar Altvater niel Ankarloo r> >Christopher Arthur m 
>Ashman rlos Astarita tila Aytekin r> >Jennifer Bair igail Bakan irus Banaji 
>mmani Bannerji r> >Richard Barrett lin Barkeryde Barrow an Batou tthew 
>Beaumont nar Bedirhanoglu ccardo Bellofiore niel Bensaid r> >Halil Berktay nry 
>Bernstein kesh Bhandari ul Blackledge r> >Roland Boer nuela Bojadzijev rner 
>Bonefeld ll Bowring r> >Craig Brandist rs Bretthauer mon Bromley rolyn A. 
>Brown r> >Ian Buchanan niel Buck ter Burnham ex Callinicos vid 
>Camfield ul Cammack am Campling glielmo Carchedi ria 
>Elisa Cevasco ncent Charbonnier arad Chari vek Chibber r> >Simon Clarke ex 
>Colas reth Dale il Davidson ssimo de 
>Angelis thryn Dean ex Demirovic nali Desai dhika Desai 
>an Ducange chael Dutton ward Engelskirchen rbara 
>Epstein at Ercan cmi Erdogan n Fine berto Fineschi r> >Milton Fisk rl Freedman 
>an Freeman bio Frosini mes 
>Furner exander Gallas il Gasper drew Glyn ter Gowan r> >Richard Greeman ldun 
>Gulalp exei Gusev rek Hall ter 
>Hallward ris Harman vid Harvey nry Heller hini Hensman 
>ke Hill an Homer sula Huws bert Jessop nathan 
>Joseph gela Joya hn Kannankulam hn Kelly off Kennedy r> 

[Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE - PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY

[Sebastian Budgen]

HISTORICAL MATERIALISM 2006 CONFERENCE:
NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARXIST THEORY

in collaboration with THE ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE 
COMMITTEE and SOCIALIST REGISTER


8-10 DECEMBER 2006
CENTRAL LONDON
Further details will be sent to registered participants.

PLEASE NOTE: PREREGISTRATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] GIVING YOUR FULL NAME IS ESSENTIAL AS 
PLACES ARE LIMITED. UNREGISTERED PEOPLE MAY BE REFUSED ENTRANCE DUE TO 
SPACE LIMITATIONS


Subjects discussed will include: the transformation problem; variable 
capital; Marx's journalism, Otto Bauer’s analysis of the world crisis 
of the 1930s; non-equilibrium economics; the labour theory of value; 
financial and industrial capital; the euro and labour integration; 
finance and the law of value; the domestic labour debate; the political 
economy of contemporary capitalism; the legacy of Karl Polanyi; the 
political economy of Turkey and Latin America; Marxism, Islam and the 
Middle East; Islamism, imperialism and global feminism; the work of 
Maxime Rodinson; Islam and capitalism; the labour process and 
resistance in the neo-liberal welfare state; the labour movement; 
migration; land reform in East Asia and capitalist transitions; 
commodity chains; waste and capitalism; global capitalism and urban 
violence; globalisation; theories of imperialism; capital accumulation 
and the state system; oil and rise of Asia; the governance of global 
capitalism; China and Cultural Revolution; Nepal and Maoism; China and 
future of the global economy; accumumation by dispossession; economic 
theory and economics imperialism; Althusser and philosophy; Marxism and 
critical realism; Italian Marxism; Lukacs; Carl Schmitt; Deleuze; 
Foucault and governmentality studies;  Marxism and political 
subjectivity; Spinoza; early Soviet history; Russia in the 1920s; 
theories of the Soviet Union; Lenin rediscovered; bourgeois 
revolutions; passive revolutions; Chris Wickham and the Middle Ages; 
Marxism and international law; Marxism and theology; the US National 
Security Strategy, Hurricane Katrina, and contemporary warfare 
technologies; the historical uncanny; Marxism and scifi; US leftist 
theatre; 'political' filmmakers in the United States; Victor Serge’s 
approach to literature; Zizek, nationalism and Kusturica; the future 
for committed cultural criticism; Marxism and music; the life and 
legacy of Ernest Mandel; Marx, Gramsci and anti-oppression politics; 
Engels's late letters; Karl Kautsky; class and morality; republicanism; 
Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas today; Marxian political theory; 
the Communist Manifesto; Marxist philosophy of language; Marxism and 
social movements;...

and much more!

On Friday evening, the winner of the 2005 Deutscher Memorial Prize, 
Kevin Murphy, will deliver his Prize Lecture.


The conference will include two Socialist Register plenary sessions to 
launch the 2007 issue on the ecological crisis: can capitalism prevail? 
and on eco-socialism, democratic planning and political strategy




Gilbert Achcar ✪ Greg Albo ✪ Elmar Altvater ✪ Daniel Ankarloo ✪ 
Christopher Arthur ✪ Sam Ashman ✪ Carlos Astarita ✪ Attila Aytekin ✪ 
Jennifer Bair ✪ Abigail Bakan ✪ Jairus Banaji ✪ Himmani Bannerji ✪ 
Richard Barrett ✪ Colin Barker✪ Clyde Barrow ✪ Jean Batou ✪ Matthew 
Beaumont ✪ Pinar Bedirhanoglu ✪ Riccardo Bellofiore ✪ Daniel Bensaid ✪ 
Halil Berktay ✪ Henry Bernstein ✪ Rakesh Bhandari ✪ Paul Blackledge ✪ 
Roland Boer ✪ Manuela Bojadzijev ✪ Werner Bonefeld ✪ Bill Bowring ✪ 
Craig Brandist ✪ Lars Bretthauer ✪ Simon Bromley ✪ Carolyn A. Brown ✪ 
Ian Buchanan ✪ Daniel Buck ✪ Peter Burnham ✪ Alex Callinicos ✪ David 
Camfield ✪ Paul Cammack ✪ Liam Campling ✪ Guglielmo Carchedi ✪ Maria 
Elisa Cevasco ✪ Vincent Charbonnier ✪ Sharad Chari ✪ Vivek Chibber ✪ 
Simon Clarke ✪ Alex Colas ✪ Gareth Dale ✪ Neil Davidson ✪ Massimo de 
Angelis ✪ Kathryn Dean ✪ Alex Demirovic ✪ Manali Desai ✪ Radhika Desai 
✪ Jean Ducange ✪ Michael Dutton ✪ Howard Engelskirchen ✪ Barbara 
Epstein ✪ Fuat Ercan ✪ Necmi Erdogan ✪ Ben Fine ✪ Roberto Fineschi ✪ 
Milton Fisk ✪ Carl Freedman ✪ Alan Freeman ✪ Fabio Frosini ✪ James 
Furner ✪ Alexander Gallas ✪ Phil Gasper ✪ Andrew Glyn ✪ Peter Gowan ✪ 
Richard Greeman ✪ Haldun Gulalp ✪ Alexei Gusev ✪ Derek Hall ✪ Peter 
Hallward ✪ Chris Harman ✪ David Harvey ✪ Henry Heller ✪ Rohini Hensman 
✪ Mike Hill ✪ Sean Homer ✪ Ursula Huws ✪ Robert Jessop ✪ Jonathan 
Joseph ✪ Angela Joya ✪ John Kannankulam ✪ John Kelly ✪ Geoff Kennedy ✪ 
Jim Kincaid ✪ Andrew Kliman ✪ Sam Knafo ✪ Stathis Kouvelakis ✪ Michael 
Krätke ✪ Rick Kuhn ✪ Thierry Labica ✪ Mikko Lahtinen ✪ David Laibman ✪ 
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The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture

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Pablo Ghigliani
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Colin Barker
Capital and Revolutionary Practice

Werner Bonefeld
Marx's Critique of Economics. On Lebowitz

Al Campbell and Tutan
Beyond Capital: A Necessary Corrective and Four Issues for Further 
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Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
Bringing the Working Class In: Mike Lebowitz’s Beyond Capital

Interventions

John Milios and Dimitri Dimoulis
Louis Althusser and the Forms of Concealment of Capitalist 
Exploitation. A Rejoinder to Mike Wayne


Patrick Murray
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‘Marx’s Critique of Samuel Bailey’



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John Haldon
on Igor M. Diakonoff’s The Paths of History

Jeff Noonan
on Kojin Karatani’s Transcritique: On Kant and Marx

Lee Salter
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Mark O’Brien
on Global Unions? Theory and Strategies of Organised Labour in the 
Global Political Economy, edited by Jeffrey Harrod and Robert O’Brien


Chris Wright
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The Sundered Totality of System and Lifeworld
Fotini Vaki
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Daniel BensaÏd
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Holloway’s Scream: Full of Sound and Fury
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>>>This rebellion of the productive forces, as they grow more and more
powerful, against their quality as capital, this stronger and stronger
command that their social character shall be recognized, forces the capital
class itself to treat them more and more as social productive forces, so far
as this is possible under capitalist conditions. The period of industrial
high pressure, with its unbounded inflation of credit, not less than the
crash itself, by the collapse of great capitalist establishments, tends to
bring about that form of the socialization of great masses of the means of
production which we meet with in the different kinds of joint-stock
companies. Many of these means of production and of distribution are, from
the outset, so colossal that, like the railways, they exclude all other
forms of capitalistic expansion.<<

WL: "This rebellion of the productive forces, as they grow more and more 
powerful, against their quality as capital," does not describe an important 
aspect 
of what is taking place today. The productive forces are in rebellion against 
themselves as industrial implements in a similar manner that the productive 
forces as industrial implements existed in rebellion against themselves as the 
manufacturing process from which they came. 

That is to say no one disputes that the productive forces described in Engels 
"Historical Materialism" section of "Socialism: Utopia and Scientific" are in 
fact industrial implements. Our society today - at this moment and juncture 
of history, is passing from an INDUSTRIAL "mode of production peculiar to the 
bourgeoisie, KNOWN SINCE MARX, as the capitalist mode of production, was 
incompatible with the feudal system, with the privileges it conferred upon 
individuals, entire social ranks and local corporations, as well as with the 
hereditary 
ties of subordination which constituted the framework of its social 
organization." (Engels) 

Because our society and the world is passing to or in transition to the 
development of a new mode of production, this gives the revolutionaries a 
window of 
opportunity we have not had before. Industrial society is giving way to a new 
kind of society whose infrastructure basis is founded on advanced robotics, 
computers and digitalized production process. As the involuntary promoter of 
industry and its development, the bourgeoisie fetters the universal application 
of this new qualitative development of the productive forces and only applies 
this technology piece meal under the pressure of capitalist competition. 

The dialectic of this process had become obvious. The quantitative addition 
of a new qualitative state of development of the productive forces, brings to 
an end the quantitative expansion of the productive forces on the same basis or 
as an industrial configuration. This slow but growing qualitative addition 
and integration of advanced robotics, computerized production and digitalized 
processes, takes place as an antagonistic element to the industrial process as 
a 
distinct combination of labor + electromechanical motion + petroleum derived 
energy source and foundation. 

An era of communist revolution has opened bring to an end various ideologies 
and theories of industrial socialism. What faces communist today - world wide, 
is not simply the overthrown of bourgeois property, but the radical 
reorganization of society on a post industrial basis. That is to say, the 
doctrine - 
not theory, defining socialism as the first stage of communism is historically 
obsolete. The first stage of communism is communism. That is to say the first 
stage of development of a new quality is the new quality. 

Society could have never passed to economic communism on the basis of the 
industrial system. The first stage of communism in America means the 
distribution 
of all socially necessary living requirement outside exchange or labor 
accounting or labor exchange as an index measuring or monitoring the labor 
contribution of the individual. 

Waistline 

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[Charles Brown]

Frederick Engels 
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific 




III
[Historical Materialism] 




 

The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the
production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the
exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in
every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is
distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon
what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged.
>From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and
political revolutions are to be sought, not in men's brains, not in men's
better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes
of production and exchange. They are to be sought, not in the philosophy,
but in the economics of each particular epoch. The growing perception that
existing social institutions are unreasonable and unjust, that reason has
become unreason, and right wrong 1)
 , is
only proof that in the modes of production and exchange changes have
silently taken place with which the social order, adapted to earlier
economic conditions, is no longer in keeping. From this it also follows that
the means of getting rid of the incongruities that have been brought to
light must also be present, in a more or less developed condition, within
the changed modes of production themselves. These means are not to be
invented by deduction from fundamental principles, but are to be discovered
in the stubborn facts of the existing system of production. 

What is, then, the position of modern Socialism in this connection? 

The present situation of society - this is now pretty generally conceded -
is the creation of the ruling class of today, of the bourgeoisie. The mode
of production peculiar to the bourgeoisie, known, since Marx, as the
capitalist mode of production, was incompatible with the feudal system, with
the privileges it conferred upon individuals, entire social ranks and local
corporations, as well as with the hereditary ties of subordination which
constituted the framework of its social organization. The bourgeoisie broke
up the feudal system and built upon its ruins the capitalist order of
society, the kingdom of free competition, of personal liberty, of the
equality, before the law, of all commodity owners, of all the rest of the
capitalist blessings. Thenceforward, the capitalist mode of production could
develop in freedom. Since steam, machinery, and the making of machines by
machinery transformed the older manufacture into modern industry, the
productive forces, evolved under the guidance of the bourgeoisie, developed
with a rapidity and in a degree unheard of before. But just as the older
manufacture, in its time, and handicraft, becoming more developed under its
influence, had come into collision with the feudal trammels of the guilds,
so now modern industry, in its complete development, comes into collision
with the bounds within which the capitalist mode of production holds it
confined. The new productive forces have already outgrown the capitalistic
mode of using them. And this conflict between productive forces and modes of
production is not a conflict engendered in the mind of man, like that
between original sin and divine justice. It exists, in fact, objectively,
outside us, independently of the will and actions even of the men that have
brought it on. Modern Socialism is nothing but the reflex, in thought, of
this conflict in fact; its ideal reflection in the minds, first, of the
class directly suffering under it, the working class. 

Now, in what does this conflict consist? 

Before capitalist production - i.e., in the Middle Ages - the system of
petty industry obtained generally, based upon the private property of the
laborers in their means of production; in the country, the agriculture of
the small peasant, freeman, or serf; in the towns, the handicrafts organized
in guilds. The instruments of labor - land, agricultural implements, the
workshop, the tool - were the instruments of labor of single individuals,
adapted for the use of one worker, and, therefore, of necessity, small,
dwarfish, circumscribed. But, for this very reason, they belonged as a rule
to the producer himself. To concentrate these scattered, limited means of
production, to enlarge them, to turn them into the powerful levers of
production of the present day - this was precisely the historic role of
capitalist production and of its upholder, the bourgeoisie. In the fourth
section of Capital, Marx has explained in detail how since the 15th century
this has been historically worked out through the three phases of simple
co-operation, manufacture, and modern industry. But the bourgeoisie, as is
shown there, could not transform these puny means of production into mighty
pr

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Eero Loone.

On Jan 18, 2006, at 6:35 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


That Esotonian fellow whose

name I can't remember
also wrote a book on what remains of historical
materialism after a
thorough analytical going-over.




Yewah, I have that book, forget the author's name. So
did Erik Wright, Andrew Levine, and Elliot Sobor,
Reconstructing Marxism, very similar results in a
shortter space.

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[andie nachgeborenen]

That Esotonian fellow whose
> name I can't remember 
> also wrote a book on what remains of historical
> materialism after a 
> thorough analytical going-over.
> 
> 

Yewah, I have that book, forget the author's name. So
did Erik Wright, Andrew Levine, and Elliot Sobor,
Reconstructing Marxism, very similar results in a
shortter space.

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[Ralph Dumain]

This Wikipedia article is quite remarkable, I think at first glance.  It's 
the sort of material suitable for Marx Myths and Legends, to which it 
links.  Especially noteworthy are the sections "Disclaimers" 
and  "Historical materialism as doctrine."


I'm sure there are many more marxist and quasi-marxist approaches to the 
history of marxism itself that could be cited.  One could begin with 
Gouldner.  But I would think any marxist who ever wrote a good marxist 
analysis about where 'marxism went wrong' could be included here.


Indeed, the Poznan Achool (Nowak et al) eventually developed a non-marxian 
historical materialism.  That Esotonian fellow whose name I can't remember 
also wrote a book on what remains of historical materialism after a 
thorough analytical going-over.


At 06:03 PM 1/17/2006 -0500, Charles Brown wrote:


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[Charles Brown]

Historical materialism


>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

 

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Historical materialism (or what Marx
  himself called "the materialist
conception of history" - materialistische Geschichtsauffassung) is a social
theory   and an approach to the
study of history   and sociology  , normally considered the intellectual
basis of Marxism  .

Historical materialism looks for the causes of developments and changes in
human history in economic  , technological
 , and more broadly, material
factors, as well as the clashes of material interests among tribes, social
classes and nations.

It can be contrasted with other interpretations of history (which Marxists
might call idealisms  ) which
attribute the causes of historical and social change primarily to politics <
, philosophy  , art
 , God 
, or any number of other manifestations of consciousness. It centers on the
notion that human life is forever changing, so that even capitalism
  is a temporary institution   that
emerged a few centuries ago and will someday be overthrown.





*   1 Development of the materialist outlook
  
*   2 Disclaimers
  
*   3 Historical materialism as doctrine
  
*   4 Criticisms
  
*   5 Marxist beliefs about history
  
*   6 Alienation and freedom


*   7 Marx and Wakefield
  
*   8 A revision of historical materialism?
  
*   9 Commentaries on different aspects of historical and dialectical
materialism
  
*   10 Note   
*   11 See also
  
*   12 External links
  



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NICK DYER-WITHEFORD
1844/2004/2044: The Return of Species-Being……
MARCEL VAN DER LINDEN
On Council Communism………
Symposium: Marxism and African Realities
LIAM CAMPLING
Editorial Introduction: Marxism and  
Africa...……
PABLO L.E. IDAHOSA AND BOB SHENTON
The Africanist’s ‘New’ Clothes………... …
HENRY BERNSTEIN
Considering Africa’s Agrarian  
Questions... 
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PATRICK BOND
Bankrupt Africa: Imperialism, Subimperialism and the Politics of  
Finance………..
RAY BUSH
Undermining Africa……
ALEX NUNN AND SOPHIA PRICE
Managing Development: EU and African Relations through the Evolution of  
the Lomé and Cotonou Agreements….
ALEJANDRO COLAS
The Reinvention of Populism: Islamist Responses to Capitalist  
Development in the Contemporary  
Maghreb……
CHRISTOPHER WISE
Geo-Thematics, and Orality-Literacy Studies in the Sahel……..
CARLOS OYA
The empirical investigation of rural class formation: methodological  
issues in a study of large and mid-scale farmers in  
Senegal………
FRANCO BARCHIESI
The Ambiguities of 'Liberation' in Left Analyses of the South African  
Democratic Transition…
BRIAN RAFTOPOULOS AND IAN PHIMISTER
Zimbabwe Now: The Political Economy of Crisis and Coercion…

Interventions
DAVID MOORE
Marxism and Marxist Intellectuals in Schizophrenic Zimbabwe: How Many  
Rights for Zimbabwe’s Left? A  
Comment….…...………….
ASHWIN DESAI
Magic, Realism and the State in Post-Apartheid South  
Africa…

Review Articles
PARESH CHATTOPADHYAY
on ‘Karl Marx - Exzerpte und Notizen: Sommer 1844 bis Anfang 1847’, in  
Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) vierte Abteilung. Band 3.   
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on ‘Trade in Early India: Themes in Indian History’, edited by Ranabir  
Chakravarti, and ‘Origins of the European Economy: Communications and  
Commerce, AD 300-900’...…..
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on Tom Brass’s ‘Towards a Political Economy of Unfree Labour’ and  
‘Peasants, Populism and  
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disappearance of Marxism as a (supposed) state ideology, the need for a 
serious and long-term Marxist book publishing programme is now clear. 
Subjected to the whims of fashion, most contemporary publishers have 
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Between Equal Rights
A Marxist Theory of International Law
China Miéville
• December 2004
• ISBN 90 04 13134 5
• Hardback (xii, 380 pp.)
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• Historical Materialism Book Series, 6
This book critically examines existing theories of international law 
and makes the case for an alternative Marxist approach. China Miéville 
draws on the pioneering jurisprudence of Evgeny Pashukanis linking law 
to commodity exchange, and in turn uses international law to make 
better sense of Pashukanis. Miéville argues that despite its advances, 
the recent ‘New Stream’ of radical international legal scholarship, 
like the mainstream it opposes, fails to make sense of the legal form 
itself. Drawing on Marxist theory and a critical history of 
international law from the sixteenth century to the present day, 
Miéville seeks to address that failure, and argues that international 
law is fundamentally constituted by the violence of imperialism

‘Respectful of the Marxist classics, Between Equal Rights is the most 
sophisticated Left critique of international law available today as 
well as one of the most significant contributions to the theory and 
history of international law I have read. It raises the debate about 
law’s role in a globalised world order to a completely new level.’ 
Martti Koskenniemi, Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of 
International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki.

‘China Miéville’s brilliantly original book is an indispensable guide 
for anyone concerned with international law. It is the most 
comprehensive scholarly account available of the central theoretical 
debates about the foundations of international law.
... Miéville’s insistence that any adequate account of the foundations 
of contemporary international law must explore its inner connection 
with the sociology of capitalism is both a novelty in the field and 
surely the right starting point for a new, much needed debate about 
this important subject.’
Peter Gowan, Professor of International Relations, London Metropolitan 
University.

 ‘… Between Equal Rights represents a real oasis in the desert for 
those of us teaching the law of nations, international relations, or 
diplomatic history. We have waited a long time for a comprehensive and 
progressive critique of international law. Miéville proves the wait was 
worth it.’
Anthony Chase, Professor of Law, Nova Southeastern University Law Center

China Miéville, Ph.D. (2001) in International Relations, London School 
of Economics, is an independent researcher and an award-winning 
novelist. He is a member of the editorial board of Historical 
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UPDATED AND WITH NEW INTRODUCTION
The German Revolution, 1917-1923
Pierre Broué, Translated by John Archer. Edited by Ian Birchall and 
Brian Pearce. With an Introduction by Eric D. Weitz

• November 2004
• ISBN 90 04 13940 0
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On 12 October 1923, Grigory Zinoviev, president of the Communist 
International wrote the following in Pravda: The German events are 
developing with the inexorability of fate. The path which it took the 
Russian Revolution twelve years to cover, from 1906 to 1917, will have 
taken the German Revolution five years, from 1918 to 1923. … The 
proletarian revolution is knocking at Germany’s door; you would have to 
be blind not to see it. … Very soon, everyone will see that this autumn 
of 1923 is a turningpoint, not just for the history of Germany, but for 
the history of the whole world.
In fact, far from being on the point of triumphing, the German 
Revolution was on the verge of an irredeemable disaster which would 
soon inflict terrible consequences on Germany and the world. In this 
magisterial work, first published 1971 and still unsurpassed, Pierre 
Broué meticulously reconstitutes the six decisive years during which — 
between ‘ultra-leftism and ‘opportunism’, ‘sectarianism’ and 
‘revisionism’, ‘activism’ and ‘passivity’ — the German revolutionaries 
attempted to begin a new chapter in the history of the p

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The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Lecture
Brian Kelly
Materialism and the Persistence of Race in the Jim Crow South
Articles
Giuseppe Tassone & Peter Thomas
Editorial Introduction to Domenico Losurdo
Domenico Losurdo
Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism
Massimo De Angelis
Separating the Doing and the Deed: Capital and the Continuous Character 
of Enclosures

Interventions
Paresh Chattopadhyay
The Soviet Question and Marx Revisited: A Reply to Mike Haynes
Mike Haynes
Rejoinder to Chattopadhyay
David McNally
Language, Praxis and Dialectics: Reply to Collins
Chik Collins
	Marxism and Language: A Response to McNally’s ‘Language, Praxis and 
Dialectics: Reply to Collins’

Reviews
Vasant Kaiwar
on Dipesh Chakrabarty’s Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought 
and Historical Difference and Ranajit Guha’s Dominance without 
Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India
Peter Green
on The Culmination of Capital: Essays on Volume III of Marx’s 
‘Capital’, edited by Martha Campbell and Geert Reuten
Samuel R Friedman
on Darren Webb’s Marx, Marxism and Utopia
Matthew Caygill
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Wal Suchting
Althusser’s Late Thinking About Materialism
Alan Carling
The Darwinian Weberian: W.G. Runciman and the Microfoundations of 
Historical Materialism
Peter jones
Critical Remarks on Critical Discourse Analysis as Social Theory

Interventions
John McIlroy
Critical Reflections on Recent British Communist Party History
John Foster
Marxists, Weberians and Nationality: A Response to Neil Davidson
Reviews
Paul Wetheley
on The Global Third Way Debate, edited by Anthony Giddens, Anthony 
Giddens’s Where Now for New Labour?, and Alex Callinicos’s Against the 
Third Way
Jason Barker
on Alain Badiou’s Manifesto for Philosophy, Deleuze: The Clamor of 
Being, and Ethics. An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
Paul Blackledge
on Richard Weikart’s Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist 
Thought from Marx to Bernstein
Paul Burkett
on Ben Fine’s Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy 
and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium
Jan Dumolyn
on Peasants into Farmers ? The Transformation of Rural Economy and 
Society in the Low Countries (Middle Ages – 19th Century) in Light of 
the Brenner Debate, edited by P. Hoppenbrouwers & J.L. Van Zanden
Steve Wright
on Futuro anteriore. Dai ‘Quaderni Rossi’ ai movimenti globali: 
ricchezze e limiti dell’operaismo italiano, edited by G. Borio, F. 
Pozzi & G. Roggero, and F. Berardi’s La nefasta utopia di Potere 
operaio. Lavoro tecnica movimento nel laboratorio politico del 
Sessantotto italiano

Conference Report
Enda Brophy
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DANIEL BENSAÏD (Paris), HENRY BERNSTEIN (London), PATRICK BOND 
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Symposium: The American Worker

Articles

Alan Johnson
Editorial Introduction: The American Worker and the Absurd Truth about 
Marxism
Karl Kautsky
The American Worker
Daniel Gaido
‘The American Worker’ and the Theory of Permanent Revolution: Karl 
Kautsky on Werner Sombart’s Why Is There No Socialism in the United 
States?
Paul Le Blanc
The Absence of Socialism in the United States: Contextualising 
Kautsky’s ‘American Worker’
Loren Goldner
On the Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political Party in the United 
States, 1900–45
Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff
Exploitation, Consumption, and the Uniqueness of US Capitalism
Noel Ignatiev
Whiteness and Class Struggle
Alan Johnson
Equalibertarian Marxism and the Politics of Social Movements
Peter Hudis
Workers as Reason: The Development of a New Relation of Worker and 
Intellectual in American Marxist Humanism

Intervention

Christopher Phelps
Why Wouldn’t Sidney Hook Permit the Republication of His Best Book?
Archive

Franz Mehring
Literary Review of Hermann Schlüter’s, Die Anfänge der deutschen 
Arbeiterbewegung in Amerika
Franz Mehring
	Obituary of Friedrich Sorge

Film Review

Brian D. Palmer
The Hands That Built America: A Class-Politics Appreciation of Martin 
Scorsese’s The Gangs of New York

Reviews

Kim Moody
on Seymour Martin Lipset’s & Gary Marks’s It Didn’t Happen Here: Why 
Socialism Failed in the United States
Mary McGuire
on American Exceptionalism: US Working-Class Formation in an 
International Context, Edited by Rick Halpern and Jonathan Morris and 
Andrew Strouthous’s US Labour and Political Action, 1918-24: A 
Comparison of Independent Political Action in New York, Chicago, and 
Seattle
Bryan D. Palmer
on Peter Linebaugh’s and Marcus Rediker’s The Many-Headed Hydra: The 
Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
Alan Wald
on Rachel Rubin’s Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature, Caren Irr’s 
The Suburb of Dissent: Cultural Politics in the United States and 
Canada During the 1930s, Cary Nelson’s Revolutionary Memory: Recovering 
the Poetry of the American Left and Billy Ben Smith’s Career of 
Proletarian Novelist and New Yorker Short Story Writer Edward Newhouse
Gerald Friedman
on Janet Irons’s Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 
1934 in the American South
Graham Barnfield
on Andrew Hemingway’s Artists on the Left: American Artists and the 
Communist Movement, 1926–1956 and Paula Rabinowitz’s Black & White & 
Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism
Robbie Lieberman
on Bryan K. Carman’s A Race of Singers: Whitman’s Working Class Hero 
from Guthrie to Springsteen
Sharon Smith
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[Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORICAL MATERIALISM VOLUME 11 NUMBER 3 NOW OUT!

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CONTENTS


Commentary
Understanding the Past to Make the Future - An Introduction
Alfredo Saad-Filho

 Understanding the Past to Make the Future: Reflections on Allende's
Government
 Marta Harnecker

Articles
 Reflections on ŒEmpire¹, Imperialism and United States Hegemony
 Simon Bromley

 The Fictions of Free Labour: Contract, Coercion, and So-Called Unfree
Labour
 Jairus Banaji

 Marxism and the Holocaust
 Alan Milchman

Interview
 An Interview with Michael Hardt

Interventions
 Art and Politics Continued: Avant-garde, Resistance and the Multitude in
Documenta II
 Angela Dimitrakaki

 A Reply to Paul Nolan's 'What's Darwinian About Historical Materialism? A
Critique of Levine and Sober'
 Andrew Levine; Elliott Sober

 Levine and Sober: A Rejoinder
 Paul Nolan

Reviews
 The Global Gamble - Washington's Faustian Bid for World Dominance PETER
GOWAN and Global Social Policy - International Organizations and the Future
of Welfare BOB DEACON with MICHELLE HULSE and PAUL STUBBS
 Kees van der Pijl

 Cultural Studies and Political Theory Edited by JODI DEAN and Culture and
Economy After the Cultural Turn, Edited by LARRY RAY and ANDREW SAYER
 Colin Mooers

 Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist
Socialism MEGHNAD DESAI
 Ray Kiely

 Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope SUSAN WEISSMAN
 Ian Birchall

 Dialogue of Negation: Debates on Hegemony in Russia and the West JEREMY
LESTER
 Alan Shandro

 Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial Edited by VINAYAK CHATURVEDI
 Pranav Jani

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Marxist tradition for emancipatory purposes. It promotes a genuine and open
dialogue between individuals working in different traditions of Marxism and
encourages an interdisciplinary, international debate between researchers
and academics. Historical Materialism sees itself as encouraging a new
generation of Marxist writers and researchers. Future issues will focus on
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JIM KINCAID
ESTHER LESLIE
MARTIN MCIVOR
CHINA MIÉVILLE
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CHRIS ARTHUR (Brighton), JAIRUS BANAJI (Bombay), COLIN BARKER (Manchester),
DANIEL BENSAÏD (Paris), HENRY BERNSTEIN (London), PATRICK BOND
(Johannesburg), WERNER BONEFELD (York), ROBERT BRENNER (Los Angeles), SIMON
BROMLEY (Open University), MICHAEL BURAWOY (Berkeley), PAUL BURKETT (Terre
Haute), PETER BURNHAM (Warwick), TERRY BYRES (London), ALEX CALLINICOS
(York), GUGLIELMO CARCHEDI (Amsterdam), ALAN CARLING (Bradford), VIVEK
CHIBBER (New York), ANDREW CHITTY (Sussex),SIMON CLARKE (Warwick), DAVID
COATES (Reynolda Station), ANDREW COLLIER (Southampton), GEORGE COMNINEL
(Toronto), MIKE DAVIS (San Diego), RICHARD B. DAY (Toronto), MICHAEL DENNING
(Yale), FRANK DEPPE (Marburg), GÉRARD D

[Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORICAL MATERIALISM VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2 NOW OUT!!!

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Articles

TONY SMITH
Globalisation and Capitalist Property Relations: A Critical Assessment
of David Held¹s Cosmopolitan Theory
PAUL CAMMACK
The Governance of Global Capitalism: A New Materialist Perspective
WILLIAM BROWN
The Bank, Africa and Politics: A Comment on Paul Cammack
SIMON PIRANI
Class Clashes with Party: Politics in Moscow between the Civil War and the
New Economic Policy
GLENN RIKOWSKI
Alien Life: Marx and the Future of the Human


Interventions

JAMES GORDON FINLAYSON
The Theory of Ideology and the Ideology of Theory? Habermas Contra
Adorno
DEBORAH COOK
A Response to Finlayson
ALEX CALLINICOS
Egalitarianism and Anticapitalism: A Reply to Harry Brighouse and Erik
Olin Wright


Reviews

ENZO TRAVERSO
on Norman Finkelstein¹s The Holocaust Industry. Reflections on the
Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, and Peter Novick¹s The Holocaust in
American Life.

CHIL COLLINS
on David McNally¹s Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor and
Liberation.

CRAIG BRANDIST
on Galin Tihanov¹s The Master and the Slave: Lukács, Bakhtin and the
Ideas of their Time.

CHRIS ARTHUR
on  Enrique Dussel¹s Towards an Unknown Marx: A Commentary on the
Manuscripts of 1861­3

BOB JESSOP
on Fritz K. Ringer¹s Max Weber¹s Methodology: the Unification of the
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Marxist tradition for emancipatory purposes. It promotes a genuine and open
dialogue between individuals working in different traditions of Marxism and
encourages an interdisciplinary, international debate between researchers
and academics. Historical Materialism sees itself as encouraging a new
generation of Marxist writers and researchers. Future issues will focus on
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the American working class, modes of production, sexuality and postcolonial
fascism.


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PAUL BLACKLEDGE
MARK BOULD
SEBASTIAN BUDGEN
MATTHEW CAYGILL
ALEJANDRO COLÁS
ANGELA DIMITRAKAKI
JIM KINCAID
ESTHER LESLIE
MARTIN MCIVOR
CHINA MIÉVILLE
PAUL REYNOLDS
GUIDO STAROSTA
GIUSEPPE TASSONE
PARIS YEROS
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ALBRITTON (Toronto), ELMAR ALTVATER (Berlin), GIOVANNI ARRIGHI (Baltimore),
CHRIS ARTHUR (Brighton), JAIRUS BANAJI (Bombay), COLIN BARKER (Manchester),
DANIEL BENSAÏD (Paris), HENRY BERNSTEIN (London), PATRICK BOND
(Johannesburg), WERNER BONEFELD (York), ROBERT BRENNER (Los Angeles), SIMON
BROMLEY (Open University), MICHAEL BURAWOY (Berkeley), PAUL BURKETT (Terre
Haute), PETER BURNHAM (Warwick), TERRY BYRES (London), ALEX CALLINICOS
(York), GUGLIELMO CARCHEDI (Amsterdam), ALAN CARLING (Bradford), VIVEK
CHIBBER (New York), ANDREW CHITTY (Sussex),SIMON CLARKE (Warwick), DAVID
COATES (Reynolda Station), ANDREW COLLIER (Southampton), GEORGE COMNINEL
(Toronto), MIKE DAVIS (San Diego), RICHARD B. DAY (Toronto), MICHAEL DENNING
(Yale), FRANK DEPPE (Marburg), GÉRARD DUMÉNIL (Paris), TERRY EAGLETON
(Manchester), GREGORY ELLIOTT (Paris), BEN FINE (London), ROBERT FINE
(Warwick), JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER (Eugene), CARL FREEDMAN (Baton Rouge), ALAN
FREEMAN (London), NORMAN GERAS (Manchester), MARTHA GIMENEZ (Boulder),
MAURICE GODELIER (Pa

[Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORICAL MATERIALISM seeking reviewers

[Sebastian Budgen]

Dear Comrades/Colleagues

Historical Materialism seeks to publish critical discursive reviews/review
articles of recent publications that would be of interest to Marxists and
readers of the journal. In particular encourages reviews that contextualise
and extend debate, and accepts reviews of books that have affinities or
common debates upon which critical discourse can be developed. It normally
allows between 3,000 and 6,000 words for a review, and potential
contributors are asked to seek out a copy of the journal to familiarise
themselves with the style and nature of the publication - we tend to reject
short, purely descriptive pieces.

If you are a historical materialist and want to review for us, let us know
what areas you are willing to review in, and tell us what your research
interests are (some indication of previous publications would be useful). I
list below a sample of books currently available for review that we are
actively seeking reviewers for. If you want more details about the book,
please contact me. If you already know the book and/or the author/editor,
please give us some outline of how you would plan to deal with the book in a
review. For any enquiries or correspondence in this regard, mail Paul
Reynolds on [EMAIL PROTECTED] (full contact details are below in the
e-mail signature.) 

Current Books Available for Review (some are suggested in 'bundles)':

- Salt of the Earth/Thraxton - & The Generalissimo¹s Son/Taylor - &
Postmodernism and China/Dirlik and Zhang - & Inventing China through
History/Wang and Suny & Forging Reform in China/Steinfeld & Transforming
Asian Socialism/Chan et al.
- 
- What's the matter with the Internet?/Poster ­ Minnesota
- 
- Social capital versus Social Theory/Fine
- 
- Socialist Europe and Revolutionary Russia/Naarden
- 
- Kronstadt 1917-1921: The fate of a Soviet Democracy/Getzler
- 
- New Directions in Soviet History/White
- 
- Forging Democracy/Eley
- 
- The Mighty Experiment/ Drescher
- 
- - Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European
Integration/Apeldoorn
- 
- New Regionalisms in the Global Political Economy/ (ed) Breslin et al /
Globalisation. Regionalisation and Cross Border Regions /ed Perkmann and Sum
& Globalisation at the Margins/ed Grant and Short & Globalisation and
Insecurity/Harris-White & The Enigma of Globalisation/Went
- 
- Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way/Ryner
- 
-. The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early C20th India/Goopta

-. The Liberal Model and Africa/Good & Economic Recovery in Africa/ Makhan &
Africa since 1940/Cooper & The Economic Decline of Zimbabwe / Jenkins and
Knight 

-. Markets, Class and Social Change (South Asia)/Crow & Japan at a
deadlock/Morishima & State-Led Modernisation and the new Middle Class in
Malaysia/Embong & Japan and the Reconstruction of East Asia/Kelly &
Southeast Asia Industrialisation/ed Jomo & The Social Impact of the Asia
Crisis/ed Hoa

-. Our Kind of Freedom(us Slavery)/Ransom and Such & Coercion, Contract and
free labor in the C19th (US)/ Steinfeld

-  Globalisation on the Line (US Borders) /ed Sadowski-Smith
- . Global Unions/ (ed) Harrod and O'Brien / Global Governance: Critical
perspectives/(ed) Wilkinson and Hughes / Towards a Global polity/(ed)
Ougaard and Higgott/Global Justice-Transnational politics/ed De grieff and
Cronin
- 
- Egalitarian Politics in the Age of Globalisation/ed Murphy
- 
-. The Transition to a Colonial Economy/Parthasarathi

- The International Political Economy of Transformation (Argentina, Brazil
and Chile)/Pang & The Unidad Popular and the Pinochet Dictatorship/Meller
- 
- Globalisation and History (Atlantic Economy) /O'Rourke and Williamson
- 
- Workers and peasants in the Middle East/Benin
- 
- Murdering the Dead/ Amadeo Bordiga & Bordiga vs Pannekoek
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- Divided Natures (Ecology)/Whiteside
- 
- Sukhanov, Chronicler of the Russian Revolution/Getzler
- 
Social Forces in the Making of the New Europe/ed Bieler & Morton & - The
Politics of Europe/ed Bonefeld

- . Globalisation and Third World Socialism (Cuba and VietNam/Brundenius and
Weeks
- Reinterpreting the French Revolution/Stone & The War on the Streets in
Revolutionary Paris/Harsin & The French Second Empire/Price
- 
-  The Culmination of Capital (essays on Vol 3)/ed campbell and Reuten
- The Politics of Nature/Roe (ed)
- 
- Women, Gender and Industrialisation/Honeyman & Adapting to
capitalism/Sharpe & Debating gender in Early Modern England 1500-1700/ed
Malcolmson & Suzuki
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- The Politics of the Excluded 1500-1850/(ed) Harris
- 
- What Global Economic Crisis/ed Arestis et al & The Global Crisis
Makers/Snooks
- 
 -Inequality around the World/Freeman

- Authority and Markets (Susan Strange Anthology)/Ed Tooze and May &
Critical Perspectives on International Political Economy/(ed) Abbott and
Worth
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- The Post-Colonial Middle Ages/ ed Cohen
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- Origins of the French Welfare State/Dutton
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- Karl Popper 1902-1945/Hacohen & Kuhn, Philosopher of Scientific
Revolution/Sharrock and R

[Marxism-Thaxis] HISTORICAL MATERIALISM VOLS 8 AND 9 NOW OUT!

[Sébastien Budgen]

Historical Materialism
Research in Critical Marxist Theory
 
Volume No. 8, Summer 2001: Focus on East Asia: Paul Burkett & Martin
Hart-Landsberg on East Asia since the financial crisis o Michael Burke on
the changing nature of capitalism o Giles Ungpakorn on Thailand o Vedi Hadiz
on Indonesia o Dae-oup Chang on South Korea o Raymond Lau on China o Jim
Kincaid on Marxist explanations of the Crisis o Dic Lo on China o
Joseph T. Miller in Peng Shuzhi o Paul Zarembka & Sean Sayers debate Marx
and Romanticism o Ted Benton & Paul Burkett debate Marx and ecology o
Reviews by Walden Bello, Warren Montag, Alex Callinicos, Paul Burkett, Brett
Clark and John Bellamy

Volume No. 9, Winter 2001: Peter Gowan, Leo Panitch & Martin Shaw on the
state and globalisation: a roundtable discussion o Andrew Smith on occult
capitalism o Susanne Soederberg on capital accumulation in Mexico o David
Laibman on the contours of the maturing socialistic economy o John Rosenthal
on Hegel Decoder: A Reply to Smith¹s ŒReply¹ o Jonathan Hughes on Analytical
Marxism and Ecology: A Reply to Paul Burkett o Reviews by Alex Callinicos,
Warren Montag, Kevin Anderson and Tony Smith
 
 
Historical Materialism seeks to reappropriate and refine the classical
Marxist tradition for emancipatory purposes. It promotes a genuine and open
dialogue between individuals working in different traditions of Marxism and
encourages an interdisciplinary, international debate between researchers
and academics. Historical Materialism sees itself as encouraging a new
generation of Marxist writers and researchers. Future issues will focus on
Africa, fantasy, the visual arts, Empire, anticapitalism, film, dialectics,
the American working class, modes of production, sexuality and postcolonial
fascism.


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MATTHEW BEAUMONT
EMMA BIRCHAM
PAUL BLACKLEDGE
MARK BOULD
SEBASTIAN BUDGEN
DAE-OUP CHANG
ALEJANDRO COLÁS
ALAN JOHNSON
ESTHER LESLIE
MARTIN MCIVOR
CHINA MIÉVILLE
PAUL REYNOLDS
GREGORY SCHWARTZ
PARIS YEROS
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ALBRITTON (Toronto), ELMAR ALTVATER (Berlin), GIOVANNI ARRIGHI (Baltimore),
CHRIS ARTHUR (Brighton), JAIRUS BANAJI (Bombay), COLIN BARKER (Manchester),
DANIEL BENSAÏD (Paris), HENRY BERNSTEIN (London), PATRICK BOND
(Johannesburg), WERNER BONEFELD (York), ROBERT BRENNER (Los Angeles), SIMON
BROMLEY (Leeds), MICHAEL BURAWOY (Berkeley), PAUL BURKETT (Terre Haute),
PETER BURNHAM (Warwick), TERRY BYRES (London), ALEX CALLINICOS (York),
GUGLIELMO CARCHEDI (Amsterdam), ALAN CARLING (Bradford), VIVEK CHIBBER (New
York), ANDREW CHITTY (Sussex),SIMON CLARKE (Warwick), DAVID COATES (Reynolda
Station), ANDREW COLLIER (Southampton), GEORGE COMNINEL (Toronto), MIKE
DAVIS (Los Angeles), RICHARD B. DAY (Toronto), MICHAEL DENNING (Yale), FRANK
DEPPE (Marburg), ARIF DIRLIK (Eugene), GÉRARD DUMÉNIL (Paris), TERRY
EAGLETON (Manchester), GREGORY ELLIOTT (London), BEN FINE (London), ROBERT
FINE (Warwick), JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER (Eugene), ALAN FREEMAN (London), NORMAN
GERAS (Manchester), MARTHA GIMENEZ (Boulder), MAURICE GODELIER(Paris), PETER
GOWAN (London), IRFAN HABIB (Aligarh), JOHN HALDON (Birmingham), DAVID
HARVEY (New York), WOLFGANG-FRITZ HAUG (Berlin), COLIN HAY (Birmingham),
MICHAEL HEINRICH (Berlin), JOHN HOLLOWAY (Mexico City), FREDRIC JAMESON
(Duke), BOBJESSOP (Lancaster), GEOFFREY KAY (London), JOHN KELLY (London),
RAY KIELY (London), STATHIS KOUVELAKIS (Paris), MARK LAFFEY (London), DAVID
LAIBMAN (NewYork), COSTAS LAPAVITSAS (London), NEIL LARSEN (Davis), NEIL
LAZARUS (Warwick), MICHAEL LEBOWITZ (Vancouver), ANDREW LEVINE (Madison),
DOMINIQUE LÉVY (Paris), MARCEL VAN DER LINDEN (Amsterdam), PETER LINEBAUGH
(Toledo), DOMENICOLOSURDO (Urbino), MICHAEL LÖWY (Paris), JOE MCCARNEY
(Brighton), DAVID MCNALLY (Toronto), SCOTT MEIKLE (Glasgow), PETER MEIKSINS
(Cleveland), ISTVÁN MÉSZÁROS (Brighton), WARREN MONTAG (Los Angeles), KIM
MOODY (New York), FRED MOSELEY (Mount Holyoke), FRANCIS MULHERN (Middlesex),
PATRICK MURRAY (Omaha), BERTELL OLLMAN (New York), JOHN O¹NEILL
(Lancaster),WILLIAM PIETZ (Los Angeles), KEES VAN DER PIJL (Sussex), CHARLES
POST (New York), MOISHE POSTONE (Chicago), HELMUT REICHELT (Bremen), GEERT
REUTEN(Amsterdam), JOHN ROBERTS (London), JUSTIN ROSENBERG (Sussex), MARK
RUPERT (Syracuse), ALFREDO SAAD-FILHO (London), SUMITSARKAR (Delhi), SEAN
SAYERS (Kent), THOMAS SEKINE (Tokyo), ANWAR SHAIKH (New York), JENS
SIEGELBERG (Hamburg), HAZELSMITH (Warwick), NEIL SMITH (New York), TONY
SMITH (Iowa), HILLEL TICKTIN (Glasgow), ANDRÉ TOSEL (Nice), ENZO
TRAVERSO (Paris), LISE VOGEL (Lawrenceville), ALAN WALD (Ann Arbor), RICHARD
WALKER (Los Angeles), JOHN WEEKS (London), CHRIS WICKHAM(Birmingham),
MICHAEL WILLIAMS (Milton Keynes), ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD (London), ERIK OLIN
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