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Geprellte Generationen. Zur Kritik der kritischen Sozialforschung am Beispiel des PROKLA-Heftes "Umkämpfte Arbeit"
No full textThe text is dealing with the current situation of critical sociology in general and critical labour studies in particular. It tries to show using the example of PROKLA 150 "Hard-Fought Labour" that current labour studies are pervaded by deep uncertainty concerning their aim and field of research and it tries to answer how educational expansion contributed to this constellation
Konjunkturen der inneren Sicherheit: Vom Fordismus zum Neoliberalismus
Get PDFThe article explores the relationship between the changes within the capitalist mode of production since the political and economic crisis of the 1970s and its possible effects for the recent tightening of surveillance and control in the pri vate sector as well as in the states\u27 homeland security policies. It is argued that beside these economic changes within the societal relationship of forces, neo-conservative and neo-Iiberal strategies have to be considered, which, when we take them all together, even regarded from a viewpoint of capitalism itself, often seem to be dysfunctional. Therefore left-wing counter-strategies should not fall into the trap to take the proclaimed Orwellian Big-Brother ideologies for granted
Die neuen Solo-Selbständigen zwischen Unternehmergeist und Prekarität
No full textThe entrepreneur is the central figure in the neoliberal discourse. The trend towards selfemployment is therefore interpretated as a sign for entrepreneurial thinking becoming the basis for general interest articluation, far beyond particular class interest. But in fact the real situation of most of the self-employed clearly points to a social position as independent workers, entangled in contradictions between self-management and a new sense of freedom on the one and harsh dependencies and self-exploitation on the other side. The article tries to elaborate on specific differences and common elements between workers and self-employed. It becomes clear, that the independent workers are part of the rising precariat and could share common interests with other precarious workers. What is needed is to overcome the very individualistic habits of the self-employed. Far from beeing sufficient, new forms of collective organisation such as the Euromayday or an Italian union for precarious independent workers are pointing into this direction
Die Rolle von Finanzinvestoren beim Umbau der deutschen Ökonomie
Get PDFThe German economy, for long time characterised by a bank based financial system with capital and personal linkages between the main financial and industrial economies, has been transformed since the 1990s to a market orientated economy. Particularly German banks and insurance companies sold many of their stakes in industrial companies. This gap has been filled by new financial investors like pension funds, hedge funds and private equity
Noch ist Frankreich nicht verloren: Anmerkungen zu Vorstadtrevolte und Sarkozys "autoritärem Populismus"
No full textIn this rejoinder to K Lindners article in Prokla 148 on the 2005 riots in France, R. Feld pleads for more of a critical distance in relation to the (majority of the) rioters, pointing e.g. to the question of sexism. He argues, however, that concepts such as \u27Lumpenproletariat\u27 are not appropriate either, and that a more dynamic approach is needed. When it comes to the question of \u27Sarkozysm\u27, he rejects the assumption that an authoritarian populism has come abont and already achieved outright hegemony. Rather, the opposition is down but not out, and the question of purchasing power may soon provide it with some opportunities to make its voice heard again
Die Entscheidungen in die politische Arena zurückzuholen: Replik zu Henrik Lebuhn, Sozialräumliche Konflikte in der unternehmerischen Stadt. Eine Berliner Fallstudie, PROKLA 149
Get PDFThe text is dealing with the article (PROKlA 4/2007) of Henrik Lebuhn on urban entrepreneurial policies based on the example of Berlin. The policy of the town of Berlin is a complex and contradictory process which includes more and other things than being a NPM model town. Lebuhn\u27s analysis of the conflicts and the lines of debate is strongly reduced, because he doesn\u27t take into consideration at all the entire development of Berlin since 1990. Contrary to that the autor argues that especially strategic defects of the Berlin left have led to the weakness of alternative political approaches. Instead of eluding the question of an appropriate handling of public resources the left should pick it up head-on and bring it back into the political arena of the town
(Post?)Koloniale Auschreitungen: Zu den Praktiken der bolivianischen Opposition
Get PDFBased on a short overview of the escalating internal political conflict in Bolivia, the article offers a political classification of the present events. In doing so, the central participants, their interests and the main conflict lines between government and opposition are outlined. The article concludes by giving a general indication of the international reactions to the conflict as well as examining the manner in which it has affected US-Bolivian relations
Der Streik der Lokführer-Gewerkschaft GDL: Anfang vom Ende des deutschen Systems der industriellen Beziehungen
No full textThe authors give an outline of the strike in 2007/08 of the oldest German union, the profeSSIOnal umon of the locomotive drivers GDL. By doing this they analyse the outcome of the strike and the dynamics of the relationship between that professional union GDL, the industrial union transnet and the German Railway Ltd. (DB AG) as pardigmatic for politics of a particularistic organisation (GDL) and politics of an encompassing organisation (transnet). And they put the question whether the upcoming of professional unions in Germany would lead to an erosion of the German system of industrial relations in the future
60 jahre NATO: Zur Gegenwart der Geopolitik
Get PDFThe NATO Alliance is being adapted to a new international situation which is quite the opposite of any harmonious "global village" or "democratic peace". The member states, the most powerful agents within the competitive machinery of global capitalism, are propelling an arms race and a spiral of violence. The Western power elites all agree to use hard power in order to secure the world order and the conditions for an efficient capital accumulation but are at the same time at loggerheads with each other in respect to the hierarchy in the creation of this order. The new US administration will presumably contribute nothing to any serious detente in international relations
Die Ordnung des Wissens: Was leistet Michel Foucaults Diskursanalyse für eine kritische Gesellschaftstheorie?
No full textIn its first part, the article deals with Michel Foucaults "discourse analysis", as developed in his "Archaeology of knowledge". The second part considers the concept of discourse in relation to Foucaults "analytic of power" and to a critical theory of society inspired by Karl Marx, especially Louis Althussers notion of ideology. Thus, on the one hand, some propositions for a methodology of discourse analysis are being made, and, on the other hand, its position within a project of critical social theory is discussed