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The subjects of capital: A critique of narcissism
Capitalism produces human subjectivities, as it produces commodities. Without this capacity, its underlying social relations would be unsustainable. Motivated by our own reflections, we share below an essay that was recently posted on the french based palim-psao website (a site … Continue reading
For Moishe Postone
In all revolutions up till now the mode of activity remained unchanged and it was only a question of a different distribution of this activity, a new distribution of labour to other persons, whilst the communist revolution is directed against … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, capitalism, Georg Lukács, marxism, Moishe Postone
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Revolution in the end time (2): A reflection
Our response to the climate crisis has been to rearrange deckchairs on the Titanic — but whatever we do, it isn’t working. It’s time to try something new. From roarmag, an essay by Kevin Buckland; a further reflection on … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital … play!
In the domain of our life excess manifests in itself in so far as violence wins over reason. Work demands the sort of conduct where effort is in a constant ration with productive efficiency. It demands rational behaviour where the … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: Anti-politics against capitalism
A precondition for reestablishing the perspective of action is to make a final and clear break with all “politics” in the institutional sense. Today, the only possible form of “politics” is radical separation from the world of politics and its … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, Anselm Jappe, capitalism, Krisis Group, politics, revolution
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Against labour, against capital: World economic crisis, social movements and socialism: 12 theses by Robert Kurz
“Don’t worry, the capitalist system will be reborn from your ashes” – El Roto A new concept of socialism can only be articulated to the extent that there is a break with the internalization of capitalist ways of life by … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: Norbert Trenkle and the violence of fictitious capital
We share a second essay by Norbert Trinkle that brings together the Krisis Group’s critique of value with an interpretation of the current crisis of capitalism. (The essay was published in english here, along with the german text).
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Tagged capitalism, Crisis, Krisis Group, labour, Norbert Trenkle
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Against labour, against capital: The terror of labour by Norbert Trenkle
As a compliment to Robert Kurz’s reflections on capitalism and labour, we share the work of another member of the Krisis Group, this time Norbert Trenkle and an essay entitled the Terror of labour. (The english language translation that we publish … Continue reading
Against labour, against capital: Marx 2000 by Robert Kurz
… the capitalist order of society is not determined by the subjects of circulation, but by the irrational end-in-itself of production. An emancipatory “abolition of money” is only possible in the context of an abolition of the labor-substance, its value-form, … Continue reading
The limits of capitalism: Challenging the fetishism of labour and money
Capital is nothing more than value that must be valorized, which is to say augmented. Value empirically takes the form of money and in that sense its valorization can be illustrated in Marx’s famous formula M–C–M’ [M prime], that is … Continue reading →