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Marx, Globalization, and the Falling Rate of Profit: A Critical Study.
No full textThis paper argues that Marx’s views on globalization and its supposed inevitability underwent a substantial evolution and revision after the publication of the Communist Manifesto. His writings relating to India, and particularly China and Russia, show that he was no longer certain that “the country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future” (Vol. I, p. 13). In the case of China, a prime example of the Asiatic mode of production, Marx even doubted whether globalization (capitalism) would ever be able to accomplish its historical mission of developing the forces of production and creating the material conditions for a higher mode of production, viz., Communism. While in the Russian case, he seriously entertained the notion that it could bypass the hardships and vicissitudes of capitalism and forge its own unique path to socialism. If accepted, this interpretation represents a serious challenge to the universality and validity of Marx’s materialist conception of history. The paper also addresses the role of the law of the tendency of the falling rate of profit in the geographic expansion of competitive capitalism. It contends that Marx did not believe there was an iron-clad connection between the falling rate of profit and globalization; in addition, it argues that Marx believed that the capitalists’ insatiable search for colonial markets was driven by their desire to overcome recurrent (and growing) realization problems in the home market arising from deficient aggregate demand on the part of both workers and capitalists.Asiatic Mode of Production, Globalization, Law of the Falling Tendency of the Rate of Profit, Materialist Conception of History, Underconsumptionist Tendencies.
Vera Kelsey Papers, 1944-1958
No full textAn accomplished journalist and author, Vera Kelsey's papers document her writing career through the manuscripts and research notes for her last four books, British Columbia Rides a Star, Red River Runs North!, Tomorrow is for You, and Young Men So Daring. For British Columbia Rides a Star it includes her travel notes from four trips around British Columbia
Feuerbach e Marx: da sensibilidade à atividade sensível
No full textThis work presents the conception of the being that is understood in some representative pieces of work of Feuerbach and Marx. Starting with tlie outlines lif Feucrbach's trajectory in the direct confrontation with llegel, passing through tiic criticism of religion and theology and getting to the principles for the reibnnation of philosophy, the indications of Feuerbach state, categorically, the anthropological iirojecl of the author. On the other hand, starting with the analysis of Marx's texts, it's possible to understand the real role that Fcuerbach's writings played in the process of theformation of Marx's thought. Thus, the assimilation of the criticism of the speculative philosophy, together with the demand for the sensibility of the being, points to lhe positive ballast of Fcuerbach's indications. Therefore, Marx overcomes l-euerbach by understanding the being as a sensible activity and not only as a sensible objectivity.Este trabalho apresenta a concepção do ser compreendida cm dctenninadas obras representativas de Feuerbach e Marx. Partindo dos lineamentos da trajetória feuerbachiana em sua confrontação direta com Hegcl, passando pela crítica da religião e da teologia e chegando aos princípios para a refonna da filosofia, os apontamentos de Feuerbach afirmam, categoricamente, o projeto antropológico do autor. Por outro lado, a partir da análise dos textos de Marx, é possível apreender o verdadeiro papel que os escritos feuerbachianos desempenharam no processo de formação do pensamento marxiano. Assim, a assimilação da crítica à filosofia especulativa, aliada à demanda pela sensibilidade do ser, indicam o lastro positivo dos indicativos feuerbachianos;entretanto, Marx supera Feuerbach ao entender o ser como atividade sensível e não apenas como objetividade sensível
Open doors presents Judith Van Gieson and Vera John-Steiner
No full textThe Open Doors series presents Judith Van Gieson author of ""Confidence Woman"" reads from her new novel and discusses doing research for her books at the Center for Southwest Research and Vera John-Steiner, author of ""Creative Collaboration,"" discusses the her study of the collabortive process
¿Qué hacer con Marx?
No full textThis article analyzes some fundamental texts and ideas of Marx in order to think about their contemporary relevance. Marxism has to get rid of the base—superstructure schema, and recognize that the theory of value is too speculative. It should also rethink the different meanings of what Marx called “science”, and have in mind the Hegelian legacy in Marx’s thought. In historical terms, it should not forget the context in which Marx lived (first industrialization) and the kind of revolution that he invoked in his writings. It is also useful to read Das Kapital as nothing more (and nothing less) than a language game, and to go against the conception of history of the introduction to the Grundrisse. We have to read Marx with all his contradictions.El artículo pasa revista a algunos textos e ideas fundamentales de Marx interrogándose por su actualidad. El marxismo tiene que quitarse de encima el esquema base—sobreestructura y reconocer la sobrecarga especulativa de la teoría del valor. También le conviene repensar los distintos significados de lo que Marx denominó como “ciencia”, tener presente la herencia hegeliana en Marx y, en términos históricos, no olvidar el contexto de primera industrialización en que éste vivió o el tipo de revolución que invocó en sus escritos. También es útil leer El Capital nada más (y nada menos) que como un juego del lenguaje e ir contra la concepción de la historia de la introducción de los Grundrisse. En definitiva, hay que leer a Marx con todas sus contradicciones
Der tendenzielle Fall der Profitrate bei Marx
No full textDie Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Theorie des tendenziellen Falls der Profitrate bei Marx. Zunächst wird die Theorie dargestellt und anschließend auf Kritik an Marx eingegangen. Es
wird gezeigt, dass es stark von den verwendeten Modellen beziehungsweise Methoden abhängig ist, ob sich eine fallende Profitrate zeigen lässt oder nicht. Der empirische Teil behandelt die Frage der Nachweis- beziehungsweise Widerlegbarkeit der
Theorie. Weitere Kapitel befassen sich mit den empirischen Studien von Joseph Moses Gillman (1959) und Fred Moseley (zwischen 1995 und 2005). Auch der theoretischen Behandlung der Frage durch Paul Marlor Sweezy wird ein eigenes Kapitel gewidmet.The paper is concerned with the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to fall according to Marx. In the first instance the theory is illustrated and subsequently the criticism on Marx is addressed.
It is shown that it strongly depends on the models and methods used whether it is possible to show a falling rate of profit or not.
The empirical part concerns the question of verifiability and refutability of the theory. Other chapters deal with the empirical studies of Joseph Moses Gillman (1959) and Fred Moseley
(between 1995 and 2005). A further chapter is dedicated to the theoretical treatment of the question by Paul Marlor Sweezy
La diferencia entre labor y trabajo en la crítica de Hannah Arendt a la concepción del hombre de Marx
No full textEl presente trabajo comprende un análisis de la critica de Hannah Arendt a Marx.
Utilizo como fuente principal sobre la interpretación que tiene de Marx su libro La
condición humana. En el primer capítulo del presente, se expondrá un esbozo de la
concepción del hombre de Marx centrado en sus primeros escritos. En el segundo
capítulo, se propondrá cuestionar a Arendt al afirmar que Marx define al hombre como
un animal laborans, (un ser dedicado a la satisfacción de necesidades vitales). Sucede
que Marx no diferenció labor y trabajo como lo hace Arendt. Sin embargo, Marx
describe al hombre como un ser cuya actividad es fundamentalmente la producción
libre, más cercana a la del homo faber, lo cual correspondería al trabajo. Sin embargo,
debido a que Marx es bastante ambiguo en la diferencia entre labor y trabajo, en el
tercer capítulo, se mostrará que la crítica de Arendt apunta a un problema central en
Marx, el cual consiste en su confianza excesiva en la riqueza material y la productividad heredadas en la Modernidad, que según él bastarían para permitir, en el comunismo,libertad productiva para todos. Esto, señala Arendt,sería solo posible con un incremento de la automatización de los procesos productivos que remplacen las labores humanas que Marx considera como alienantes. Esto para Arendt es una esperanza vana, ya que la labor es una actividad necesaria e ineludible que forma parte de la condición
humana. Así, el que Marx proyecte en el comunismo una visión de sociedad sin acción
política (la actividad más libre para Arendt) responde a esta concepción ambigua de
libertad productiva criticada por Arendt
Milieux historiques, storia, tempo e politica: Marx tra i "quaderni etno-antropologici" e la lettera a Vera Zasulič (1879-1882)
No full textThis essay aims to show the presence of a theory of plural temporality in the
so-called “last” Marx. It also seeks to highlight how such a theory contrasts both the teleological
conception of history and the idea of the revival of the archaic as a possibility
for future communism. The first section examines the concept of “milieux historiques”
as it appears in the 1877 letter Marx prepared for the editors of the journal Otečestvennye
Zapiski. The second and third sections examine, in light of this concept, Marx’s so called
“Ethnological Notebooks” and the letter to Vera Zasulič, written between 1879 and
1882. The final section, in light of the Preface to the second Russian edition of the Manifesto
(1882), shows the political implications of such a theory of plural temporality in
light of Marxian reflection on the relationship between the Russian commune, capitalist
mode of production and revolution
¿América Latina desde Marx o Marx desde América Latina?: Las tensiones entre la escritura idealista y la escritura materialista
No full textThe article analyzes the tensions arising from the question, Latin America on the basis of Marx, or Marx on the basis of Latin America? To that effect, it uses the concepts of idealist writing and materialist writing, which identify the two main options in Marxist theoretical
production. The former is associated with the conception of a universal form of history, linked to certain texts by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, continued by German Social Democracy, and reaching its highest point in the philosophy of Georg Lukács. The latter has to do with the perspectives opened by Marx himself in certain sections of Capital and in his letters to Vera Zasúlich. The article also discusses some of the implications of this second option for Latin American traditions highlighting the importance of the work of Álvaro García Linera.En el presente trabajo se analizan las tensiones surgidas a partir de la pregunta ¿América Latina desde Marx o Marx desde América Latina? Para hacerlo se utilizan los conceptos de escritura idealista y escritura materialista, que identifican dos de las opciones más importantes en la producción teórica marxista. La primera se asocia a la perspectiva que concibe una forma universal de la historia, ligada a ciertos textos de Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels, continuada por la socialdemocracia alemana y cuyo punto máximo es la filosofía de Georg Lukács. Del otro lado están las perspectivas abiertas por el mismo Marx en ciertos segmentos de El capital y en sus cartas a Vera Zasúlich. Así mismo, se retoman algunas de las implicaciones de esta última opción en las tradiciones latinoamericanas. Particularmente se señala la importancia de la obra de Álvaro García Linera
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