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The Gods Failed, the Priests Lied (האלים הכזיבו, הכוהנים כיזבו)
Get PDFהעולם של היום הוא עולם קפיטליסטי. יתר על כן, הוא עולם של קפיטליזם יציב. המשטר הקפיטליסטי ניצח והסדר הקפיטליסטי הושלט בכל מקום בעולם. הקפיטליזם מתגלה יום-יום ישירות באמצעות המחיר. הנתינים בעולם מתוודעים אל הסדר ולומדים את השיטה באמצעות שלל המחירים, מורכבותם ויחסיהם – מגלגולי הקיום ועד לציווי השליטים
משטר מבוסס על אמונה, ומשטר יציב מבוסס על אמונה יציבה של הנתינים. האמונה המרכזית השוררת במשטר הקפיטליסטי היא האמונה במחירים. המחירים פורשים את המציאות הקפיטליסטית כמות שהיא: ישירות וללא פשרות. המציאות נישאת על גלי המחירים. אלה מתנודדים מעלה-מטה. הם נעים במסלולים חרישיים, במקצבים משתנים. הם נתונים לכוחות מסתוריים, אחוזים בגחמות חולפות
השינויים במחירים, תנודותיהם, מגמותיהם, קצבם ויחסיהם – אלה הם מרכז ההוויה הקפיטליסטית. הם האמת. מי שיודע לאחוז באמת, לרדת אל חקרה ולהבין את צפונותיה, הוא המאמין הזוכה. הוא האדם שהשכיל לדעת את סוד ההוויה, לרדת אל תהומותיה. הוא נזר הבריאה החדש: המיליארדר התבוני
המחירים הם האמת; ומפרשיה של האמת הם הכוהנים הגדולים של האמונה. מדע הכלכלה הוא מעוז האמונה של הסדר הקפיטליסטי ומדעני הכלכלה הם כוהני האמונה. הם יודעי האמת. הם פרשני המחירים
אלא שהאלים חמדו להם לצון והיתלו בכוהני
Cheap Wars and Israel's Roaring Economy: An Audio Interview with Political Economist Jonathan Nitzan
No full textDuration: 75 minutes
Shir Hever, economic researcher with the Alternative Information Center (AIC), interviews Jonathan Nitzan about two recent articles which he co-authored with Shimshon Bichler, titled "Cheap Wars" and "Israel’s Roaring Economy.
Capital and Power in the Global Political Economy (YorkU, AS/POLS 4291 3.0, Undergraduate)
Get PDFWhat is capital? Is it a material thing or a social relation? What is political about it and how does it relate to power? What is the role of capital in the broader global political economy? The seminar examines such questions theoretically and historically. The first part explores basic conceptions of capital. It begins by studying three approaches to capital: one based on utility, a second based on labour value and a third based on power. The discussion then broadens to examine these three approaches in relation to technology, the corporation and the state. The second part of the seminar deals with transformations of capital. This part introduces the twin concepts of dominant capital and differential accumulation. Using these concepts, the seminar explores the historical processes of corporate mergers, globalization, stagflation, imperialism and the new wars of the twenty-first century
The South American Pipeline (Radio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan)
No full textDuration: 11 minutes
FROM THE INTERVIEW:
It's not by chance that President Chavez calls this pipeline project the beginning of a "South American consensus", something that could economically link that continent's countries. Using that term is seen a direct challenge to the once-championed "Washington Consensus", which referred to a Free Trade Area for the Americas--one that was supposed to extend NAFTA from Alaska to Patagonia.
Now some observers say the pipeline points to a Latin America poised to exclude American political and economic influence from the region. To help us sort through the rhetoric, and to put the proposed pipeline into a continental and global context, we were joined by Jonathan Nitzan. He is a Political Economist at York University in Toronto, but this morning, he was in Montreal
Peace-for-War
No full textFROM THE LECTURE: The concept I’m going to present draws directly from the work of Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan. It describes the economic phases of "depth" and "breadth," and correlates them with the first- and second-order cybernetics of control. It attempts to situate the functions of cultural-communicational labor within these economic phases. It questions those autonomist Marxists who thought it would be possible to transform a broadly expansionary phase of capitalism, like that of the ‘90s, into a qualitatively different society. It’s not a polemic, but seeks to open up a field of strategic debate. It doesn’t assert a future, but observes the unfolding of the present into the depths of violence, which has robbed resistance movements of their potential, again. The concept is Peace-for-War.
Duration of video presentation: 39 Minutes
Keys to Failure: Israel's Performance in Global Perspective
Get PDFFROM THE ARTICLE: Just as the war was grinding on, I got hold of this study of what was going on in Lebanon, in global political economy perspective . . . from two of the most reliable and insightful researchers it has been my good fortune to read -- Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler's ‘Cheap Wars’. . . . It is a bit irritating that both of them are Israelis and as usual are way ahead of us Arab journalists and our conspiracy theories -- me included -- but there's no harm in getting an inside account of what went wrong with the Israeli war. . . . And they figured it out before the war even 'went' wrong
Global Political Economy II: Issues and Problems Since 1945 (YorkU, AS/POLS 3275 3.0, Undergraduate)
Get PDFThe course examines the global political economy as it developed since the end of Second World War. It deals with the general themes of power and production, order and disorder, finance, the international monetary system, international trade and the transnational corporation. It also explores various facets of capitalist expansion and crisis, including North-South relationships, development and underdevelopment, the impact of financial flows, the new wars and the future of the global political economy
Vi trenger er en teoretisk revolusjon (What we need is a theoretical revolution - An interview with Jonathan Nitzan in Norwegian)
Get PDFDen vedvarende krisen i Midtøsten vil ikke kunne løses uten fundamentalt ny kunnskap som kan forklare dagens globale kapitalakkumulasjon, sier den israelske politiske økonomen Jonathan Nitzan – og tilbyr sin egen teori
Capital and Power in the Global Political Economy (YorkU, AS/POLS 4291 3.0, Undergraduate)
Get PDFWhat is capital? Is it a material thing or a social relation? What is political about it and how does it relate to power? What is the role of capital in the broader global political economy? The seminar examines such questions theoretically and historically. The first part explores basic conceptions of capital. It begins by studying three approaches to capital: one based on utility, a second based on labour value and a third based on power. The discussion then broadens to examine these three approaches in relation to technology, the corporation and the state. The second part of the seminar deals with transformations of capital. This part introduces the twin concepts of dominant capital and differential accumulation. Using these concepts, the seminar explores the historical processes of corporate mergers, globalization, stagflation, imperialism and the new wars of the twenty-first century
