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Editorial: Globale Proteste zwischen Organisation und Bewegung
Get PDFEditorial: Globale Proteste zwischen Organisation und Bewegun
Die Proteste der Refugees: Eine Bewegung von den Rändern ins Zentrum Europas
Get PDFFor the first time refugee and migrant protests have developed into a social movement in Germany. The refugee movement is also part of a transnational network, which has developed during and in accordance with the current protest cycle started by the Arab Spring. Broad mobilizations spring from this movement but have not yet let to substantial changes due to the post-crisis restructuring of the EU with „margin“ and „central“ countries. While the neoliberal restructuring in the global south is causing the „production of migration“ to speed up, also the „99 percent“ in the global north are concerned. The migrant and refugee movement is challenging the base of this neoliberal agenda as it aims at the functioning of deterrence, control and deprivation in the global south and north
Abfallsammlung in Buenos Aires: städtische Informalität und Formalisierungspolitik
Get PDFWith the collapse of the Argentine economy in the late 1990s between 20.000 and 25.000 persons in Buenos Aires got involved with informal waste picking. When public pressure became too strong in 2001, the municipal and national government started to work on a plan for the implementation of an integrated solid waste management, in which private waste enterprises and waste pickers’ cooperatives shall collaborate in order to improve the city‘s recycling activities. With the new model, however, the waste pickers themselves were also taken into account as new social actors. Considering the importance of formality and informality, this paper analyses the design of the bonaerense model for in - tegrated solid waste management. First, economic-historical perspectives of theoretical con - cepts of formality and informality are discussed, followed by a review of the developments in the waste sector since 2001. Finally, light is thrown on the impact and scope of formality and informality for the integration of informal waste pickers
Editorial: Politische Ökonomie des Mülls
Get PDFDer weltweit immer weiter wachsende Müll gilt als eine der großen sozialen und ökologischen Herausforderungen der nächsten Jahrzehnte. In den Ozeanen treiben 100 Millionen Tonnen Plastikmüll herum, und lange Zeit waren die Weltmeere auch beliebte Lagerungsorte für Munitionsabfälle. In Großstädten wie Berlin gibt es täglich 3.800 Tonnen Abfall, und in Megacities des Südens wie etwa Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro oder Mexico City werden solche Zahlen noch weit übertroffen. Für große Mengen von Haushalts- wie von Gewerbeabfällen findet sich allerdings kein Platz in den Ländern, in denen sie entstanden sind, ebensowenig wie es bislang für Müll aus Atomkraftwerken zuverlässige Lösungen zum Endverbleib gibt. Aber auch die politische Ökonomie hat noch keinen rechten Platz für den Müll gefunden. Ihre Themen kreisen um Produktionskräfte und Produktionsverhältnisse, um Verteilung und Reproduktion, um Kreisläufe und Krisen sowie um die Dynamik der kapitalistischen Produktionsweise. Marx erwähnte die „Exkremente der Produktion“ im dritten Band des Kapitals gleichfalls eher beiläufig, indem er sie – der industriellen Praxis seiner Zeit entsprechend – als Rohstoffe für andere Zweige anführte (etwa Eisenspäne, die bei der Maschinenproduktion anfallen und wieder in die Eisenproduktion eingehen), während er die „Exkremente der Konsumtion“ als Dünger in der Landwirtschaft verwertet sah
Autonomie in der Krise
Get PDFThe article addresses the weakness of the Left to counter neo-liberalism even in times of economic crises and growing inequalities. Neo-liberalism seems to have been quite successful in discrediting the quest for equality by mobilizing ideologies of individual freedom and responsibility for oneself as values opposing equality. As any such ideology, the neo-liberal one connects itself to socially rooted desires which the power relations of capitalist societies actually betray. The article argues that the Left should take up the battle with neo-liberalism by remembering its own traditions of striving for the self-determination (“free association”) of individuals. Taking it seriously, self-determination requires social preconditions which are in utter contrast to neo-liberalism: promoting equalities, social protection against the dependence on markets, and democracy in its strict sense
Wert-Abjektion als grundlegende Herrschaftsform des patriarchalen Kapitalismus – ‘Sorge(n)freie’ Gesellschaft als Resultat
Get PDFThe article delivers a contribution to theorise (the devaluation of ) care-work in patriarchal capitalism and to connect the theorization with the empirical analysis of the German ambulant care sector in neoliberal times. The central theorem of ‘value-abjection’ transforms Marxist value theory and conceptualizes the abjection of care work as constitutive mechanism of domination in patriarchal capitalism. Transferred to a concrete level of argumentation the theoretical perspective of value-abjection helps not only to analyse the structural tendency of abjection of care work. It also enables to identify empirically- concrete which specific aspects of care and for what reason are structured as abject
Marxistische Parteiendebatte revisited: Zur Verortung politischer Parteien in der Bürgerlichen Gesellschaft
Get PDFDifferent from approaches to political parties with an affirmative stance towards capitalist domination, Marxist social theory claims to assess the role of parties within Bourgeois society from a critical perspective. Nevertheless, existing debates on political parties in capitalism suffer from a narrow focus on forms and functions. They tend to become functionalist and reductionist on class struggles instead of analyzing different relations of domination. Due to this shortcoming, it is necessary to develop a materialist understanding which takes into account some helpful insights from Gramsci’s concept of political and societal party. His understanding of domination as hegemony provides us with rich analytical instruments: Now we can grasp more precisely to what extent parties play a crucial role in organizing consent within society and how they manage to do so. By critically assessing the Marxist debate on political parties and enriching it with a stronger focus on hegemony, I want to offer a more comprehensive conceptual framework which might be useful for empirical studies
Eurozone: die Krise als Chance für die kapitalistische Offensive
Get PDFThe article criticizes the usual narrative, that the indebtedness of the southern countries of EU is the result of reckless borrowing, exaggerated consumption and productive weakness. It is shown how current account imbalances worked for some years as an accommodation process. However, the Euro is not just a currency, it is a “mechanism” to impose capitalist power, to force permanent processes of restructuring labour. The contemporary crisis of the Euro is not just the outcome of a wrong policy, it is a process of capitalist attack in class struggle
