Thanks, can you please invite me in future discussions and engagements. On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Dominic Tweedie <[email protected]>wrote:
> It's on a blog, *here <http://cuafrica.blogspot.com/>*. > > It started in June. > > I will do it again through another channel, next year. > > Best, > > > VC > > > > On 20 October 2010 12:48, Sibongile Mbele <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Comrade, thanks for this constructive information...Do you know the links >> to other chapters? I would like to join in your study sessions/groups to >> enlightened myself even more....How do I ago about that? I'm based at Jozi >> CBD. >> >> Thanking in advance for your assistance. >> >> >> Kind Regards, >> Sibongile Mbele >> >> Mobile: +27 76 9001858 >> Fax: +27 86 695 1227 >> >> "Successful people make a habit of doing things other people aren't >> willing to do" >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:14 PM, DomzaNet <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> *Course on Marx's Capital: Part 23* >>> >>> >>> <http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_D4UK2kWf5ik/TL7Ajwn-FGI/AAAAAAAACsk/uwpbulseC3A/s1600/MogadishuApril2007+-+2.jpg> >>> *Mogadishu, 1993* >>> >>> *Colonialism* >>> >>> Here we are, nearly at the end of Capital, Volume 1, the famous and >>> huge book that so many people talk about and so few people read. We have >>> read it. We are more fit to be cadres. We are more fit to be the vanguard. >>> What remain are only the three last chapters, which are not difficult to >>> read, although as always they challenge us to be brave and to act, and >>> action will never be easy. >>> >>> In *Chapter 31* Marx states that the origin of the industrial (not >>> farming) capitalist is in colonialism. >>> >>> *“The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, >>> enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the >>> beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the turning of >>> Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised >>> the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production. These idyllic proceedings >>> are the chief momenta of primitive accumulation. On their heels treads the >>> commercial war of the European nations, with the globe for a theatre.”* >>> >>> *“To-day industrial supremacy implies commercial supremacy. In the >>> period of manufacture properly so called, it is, on the other hand, the >>> commercial supremacy that gives industrial predominance. Hence the >>> preponderant rôle that the colonial system plays at that time. It was "the >>> strange God" who perched himself on the altar cheek by jowl with the old >>> Gods of Europe, and one fine day with a shove and a kick chucked them all of >>> a heap. It proclaimed surplus-value making as the sole end and aim of >>> humanity.”* >>> >>> This last describes in a single sentence, the state of affairs that >>> Marx's book was written to expose; and Marx did succeed in exposing >>> “capital” as “surplus-value making”. >>> >>> Yet it appears that Marx did not deal with Primitive Accumulation in >>> the sense that the phrase would nowadays be understood. Marx does not >>> establish that capitalism required a ready pile of money or its equivalent. >>> What he establishes is how the requisite class forces were brought into >>> being, in Western Europe, in the revolutions that overthrew feudalism. >>> >>> It is a mistake to think that a capitalist business requires “capital” >>> in advance, if by “capital” is meant money in the bank, or land, buildings, >>> equipment et cetera. It does require such things, but they do not make it a >>> capitalist business as opposed to any other kind of project. What makes a >>> business work as capitalism is a dual relationship. The first part of it is >>> the relationship between the worker and the capitalist. The second part is >>> the relationship of the capitalist with his market. If these two >>> relationships do not exist, or are faulty, then a capitalist business will >>> not survive. But if they do exist, then the other means will probably be >>> found without too much difficulty. >>> >>> Marx shows clearly how the proletariat arose historically in Europe in >>> the 16th century. He shows how the bourgeois class arrives on the scene. He >>> shows how all the social building blocks including proletariat and market, >>> are assembled, but not the money. In any case, capital is not money, it is a >>> relation. Marx says so, directly, in Chapter 33. So the accumulation >>> necessary for capitalism is not treasure, but is an accumulation of >>> relationships; this is what we learn from the chapters in “Capital” on >>> Primitive Accumulation. >>> >>> Marx does not, in Capital, make a strong distinction between slavery >>> and capitalism. He describes slavery candidly and without flinching from the >>> horror of it. But he never discusses slavery in a comparative way, as >>> distinct from surplus-value-extracting bourgeois-and-proletarian capitalism. >>> Yet (bourgeois) slavery also started in the 16th century, or slightly >>> before, and it ran on as a transcontinental Atlantic system for the next >>> three hundred years, in parallel with the early development of capitalism >>> proper, until Marx’s time, such that the last end of bourgeois slavery was >>> the cataclysm of the American Civil War, that was happening while Marx was >>> writing Capital. >>> >>> *Chapter 32* of Capital, Volume 1 contains about 1000 words in only >>> four paragraphs. It is a full historical sweep from the past of slaves and >>> serfs through present capitalism to the future, when the expropriators will >>> be expropriated. It resembles the Communist Manifesto. >>> >>> *Chapter 33* is very interesting but in spite of its title, it is not >>> really about colonialism. Instead, Marx uses the example of part of one >>> colony of the time, Australia, to make points about capitalism and to >>> “discover in the Colonies the truth as to the conditions of capitalist >>> production in the mother country”. Also note the very last paragraph of the >>> chapter (and the book), which says: >>> >>> *“We are not concerned here with the conditions of the colonies. The >>> only thing that interests us is the secret discovered in the new world by >>> the Political Economy of the old world, and proclaimed on the housetops: >>> that the capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore >>> capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the >>> annihilation of self-earned private property; in other words, the >>> expropriation of the laborer.”* >>> >>> *“...capital is not a thing, but a social relation between persons, >>> established by the instrumentality of things,”* says Marx. >>> >>> In the next part, we will commence a ten-week course Capital, Volumes 2 >>> and 3. >>> >>> *Please download and read the following document**:* >>> >>> *Click here to download Capital V1, C31, 32, 33, Capitalist, >>> Accumulation, Colonialism, in MS-Word file >>> format<http://communist-university.googlegroups.com/web/1524%2C+Capital+V1%2C+C31%2C+32%2C+33%2C+Capitalist%2C+Accumulation%2C+Colonialism%2C+1867.doc?gda=D_mB4JUAAAB4MbH-vDwpNagN2sDR9UloMzSG2ynLnrFM4apJjB-9d2hlX2dxbRLV-W0NNomDNgD-0xTaH0GwBed3K-ed6TiTgoourxM03oqR> >>> * >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Posted By DomzaNet to >>> CUAfrica<http://cuafrica.blogspot.com/2010/10/colonialism.html>at >>> 10/20/2010 12:14:00 PM >>> >>> -- >>> You are subscribed. 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