charts the reform movement from 1830 to 1940, and manages to pack in more than Fogelson's rec... more charts the reform movement from 1830 to 1940, and manages to pack in more than Fogelson's recent much longer Big-Cit Police (which covers similar ground). My one quarrel with it is his erection of an Aunt Sally of vulgar Marxism, to which he attributes the view that the police are automatically agents of 'dominant economic groups'. Against this, he points to the frequent unreliability of local police as strikebreakers in the nineteenth century, and the consequent resort of capitalists to private agencies like Pinkerton's. But as his own account shows, this 'problem' was one of the motives for the development of State police forces and the 'professionalizationS movement, intended to sever policemenss local loyalties. Levi's account of the growth of police militancy, based largely on case-studies of New York, Detroit and Atlanta, follows similar books by Juris and Feuille, RuchelmanS FIalpern and others. It is, however, by far the best work on the subject, not only for its wealth of detail? but also for the sophistication of its theoretical framework, drawing largely on O'Connor's analysis of the fiscal crisis of the State and Piven, Gurr, Hobsbawm and the Tillys on the development of protest movements. It avoids the managerial bias of most earlier works and sees the growth of police unionism as potentially an agent of radical change. However, it seems to underplay the reactionary character of police demands, demonstrated clearly in her own account of the often racist opposition by the Atlanta Fraternal Order of Police to Chief Herbert Jenkins' liberal reforms. Police unionization illustrate the contradictory class position of policemen as both salaried employees and upholders of the status quo. This presents analytic and political difficulties which Levi recognizes but does not fully explicate in her otherwise excellent study. Robert Reiner University of Bristol
The recent expansion of the European Union to the Eastern European countries was preceded by the ... more The recent expansion of the European Union to the Eastern European countries was preceded by the 2004 Treaty of Nice, through which the stronger countries retain their dominant position within EU institutions. Traditional imperialist motives still play a role, but the basic aim of this expansion is the enlargement of the Euro area within the context of the strife between the Euro and the dollar for international seignorage.
The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with ... more The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with computer and digital technologies, has given rise to a number of apologetic concepts, variously termed the information society, cognitive capitalism and digital capitalism. These concepts are ideological in nature. They have gained wide acceptance because of the underdevelopment of Marxist epistemology. This article submits a Marxist theory of knowledge accounting for modern developments in the natural sciences from the standpoint of the the materiality of knowledge and of its class content. It deals at length with two important examples: the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and the internet. It shows that the generation of knowledge on the internet is at the same time, a battle for knowledge. It is part of the wider cognitive class struggle between capital and the rationality of labour in its multifarious and ever-changing forms.
The Ontology and Social Dimension of Knowledge: The Internet Quanta Time, 2022
The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with ... more The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with computer and digital technologies, has given rise to a number of apologetic concepts, variously termed the information society, cognitive capitalism and digital capitalism. These concepts are ideological in nature. They have gained wide acceptance because of the underdevelopment of Marxist epistemology. This article submits a Marxist theory of knowledge accounting for modern developments in the natural sciences from the standpoint of the the materiality of knowledge and of its class content. It deals at length with two important examples: the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and the internet. It shows that the generation of knowledge on the internet is at the same time, a battle for knowledge. It is part of the wider cognitive class struggle between capital and the rationality of labour in its multifarious and ever-changing forms.
The Ontology and Social Dimension of Knowledge: The Internet Quanta Time, 2022
The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with ... more The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with computer and digital technologies, has given rise to a number of apologetic concepts, variously termed the information society, cognitive capitalism and digital capitalism. These concepts are ideological in nature. They have gained wide acceptance because of the underdevelopment of Marxist epistemology. This article submits a Marxist theory of knowledge accounting for modern developments in the natural sciences from the standpoint of the the materiality of knowledge and of its class content. It deals at length with two important examples: the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and the internet. It shows that the generation of knowledge on the internet is at the same time, a battle for knowledge. It is part of the wider cognitive class struggle between capital and the rationality of labour in its multifarious and ever-changing forms.
After an assessment of the Horizon 2020 European Defence Research Program, this article discusses... more After an assessment of the Horizon 2020 European Defence Research Program, this article discusses the basic assumption behind both civilian and military expenditures, namely, that such expenditures foster economic growth and are successful anti-crises policies. First, the historical example of the long period of economic growth following WWII is considered. The conclusion is reached that it was economic growth that made possible such expenditures rather than the other way around. Theoretical arguments and empirical data are submitted to substantiate this claim. The Keynesian multiplier and its alternative, the Marxist multiplier, are examined. Finally, the article considers the advantages and disadvantages of the production and export of arms. The following conclusion is reached: the production of weapons (a) while enriching the producers of weapons contributes to the tendential fall of the average rate of profit in the producing and exporting country, (b) impoverishes the workers o...
It is often argued by Marxist and non-Marxist authors alike (see, for example, Bronfenbrenner, 19... more It is often argued by Marxist and non-Marxist authors alike (see, for example, Bronfenbrenner, 1968; Horverak, 1988) that Marx’s production prices, the outcome of the transformation procedure in volume III of Capital, are equilibrium prices and that, as far as this is concerned, there is no substantial difference with equilibrium prices as in neoclassical price theory (hereafter NCPT). Conversely this chapter argues that neoclassical equilibrium prices have a radically different theoretical status and social content than Marxian production prices.1
... whose historical role was, finally, to partici-pate in or even to hasten the development of m... more ... whose historical role was, finally, to partici-pate in or even to hasten the development of modern national economies based on wage labor, to forget that Marx intended his work as a contribu-tion not to economics but to its critique. The essay by Guglielmo Carchedi published ...
... Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Carchedi, Guglielmo. PUBLISHER: B. Blackwell (Oxford Ox... more ... Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Carchedi, Guglielmo. PUBLISHER: B. Blackwell (Oxford Oxfordshire and New York, NY, USA). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1987. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0631154833 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xi, 289 p. ...
This work focuses exclusively on the modern economic aspects of imperialism. We define it as a pe... more This work focuses exclusively on the modern economic aspects of imperialism. We define it as a persistent and long-term net appropriation of surplus value by the high-technology imperialist countries from the low-technology dominated countries. This process is placed within the secular tendential fall in profitability, not only in the imperialist countries but also in the dominated ones. We identify four channels through which surplus value flows to the imperialist countries: currency seigniorage; income flows from capital investments; unequal exchange through trade; and changes in exchange rates. We pay particular attention to the theorisation and quantification of international UE and of exchange-rate movements. Concerning UE, we extend Marx’s transformation procedure to the international setting. We use two variables in the analysis of UE: the organic composition of capital and the rate of exploitation, and we measure which of these two variables is more important in contributing...
charts the reform movement from 1830 to 1940, and manages to pack in more than Fogelson's rec... more charts the reform movement from 1830 to 1940, and manages to pack in more than Fogelson's recent much longer Big-Cit Police (which covers similar ground). My one quarrel with it is his erection of an Aunt Sally of vulgar Marxism, to which he attributes the view that the police are automatically agents of 'dominant economic groups'. Against this, he points to the frequent unreliability of local police as strikebreakers in the nineteenth century, and the consequent resort of capitalists to private agencies like Pinkerton's. But as his own account shows, this 'problem' was one of the motives for the development of State police forces and the 'professionalizationS movement, intended to sever policemenss local loyalties. Levi's account of the growth of police militancy, based largely on case-studies of New York, Detroit and Atlanta, follows similar books by Juris and Feuille, RuchelmanS FIalpern and others. It is, however, by far the best work on the subject, not only for its wealth of detail? but also for the sophistication of its theoretical framework, drawing largely on O'Connor's analysis of the fiscal crisis of the State and Piven, Gurr, Hobsbawm and the Tillys on the development of protest movements. It avoids the managerial bias of most earlier works and sees the growth of police unionism as potentially an agent of radical change. However, it seems to underplay the reactionary character of police demands, demonstrated clearly in her own account of the often racist opposition by the Atlanta Fraternal Order of Police to Chief Herbert Jenkins' liberal reforms. Police unionization illustrate the contradictory class position of policemen as both salaried employees and upholders of the status quo. This presents analytic and political difficulties which Levi recognizes but does not fully explicate in her otherwise excellent study. Robert Reiner University of Bristol
The recent expansion of the European Union to the Eastern European countries was preceded by the ... more The recent expansion of the European Union to the Eastern European countries was preceded by the 2004 Treaty of Nice, through which the stronger countries retain their dominant position within EU institutions. Traditional imperialist motives still play a role, but the basic aim of this expansion is the enlargement of the Euro area within the context of the strife between the Euro and the dollar for international seignorage.
The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with ... more The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with computer and digital technologies, has given rise to a number of apologetic concepts, variously termed the information society, cognitive capitalism and digital capitalism. These concepts are ideological in nature. They have gained wide acceptance because of the underdevelopment of Marxist epistemology. This article submits a Marxist theory of knowledge accounting for modern developments in the natural sciences from the standpoint of the the materiality of knowledge and of its class content. It deals at length with two important examples: the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and the internet. It shows that the generation of knowledge on the internet is at the same time, a battle for knowledge. It is part of the wider cognitive class struggle between capital and the rationality of labour in its multifarious and ever-changing forms.
The Ontology and Social Dimension of Knowledge: The Internet Quanta Time, 2022
The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with ... more The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with computer and digital technologies, has given rise to a number of apologetic concepts, variously termed the information society, cognitive capitalism and digital capitalism. These concepts are ideological in nature. They have gained wide acceptance because of the underdevelopment of Marxist epistemology. This article submits a Marxist theory of knowledge accounting for modern developments in the natural sciences from the standpoint of the the materiality of knowledge and of its class content. It deals at length with two important examples: the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and the internet. It shows that the generation of knowledge on the internet is at the same time, a battle for knowledge. It is part of the wider cognitive class struggle between capital and the rationality of labour in its multifarious and ever-changing forms.
The Ontology and Social Dimension of Knowledge: The Internet Quanta Time, 2022
The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with ... more The increasing saturation of all facets of contemporary capitalism, including human labour, with computer and digital technologies, has given rise to a number of apologetic concepts, variously termed the information society, cognitive capitalism and digital capitalism. These concepts are ideological in nature. They have gained wide acceptance because of the underdevelopment of Marxist epistemology. This article submits a Marxist theory of knowledge accounting for modern developments in the natural sciences from the standpoint of the the materiality of knowledge and of its class content. It deals at length with two important examples: the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum physics and the internet. It shows that the generation of knowledge on the internet is at the same time, a battle for knowledge. It is part of the wider cognitive class struggle between capital and the rationality of labour in its multifarious and ever-changing forms.
After an assessment of the Horizon 2020 European Defence Research Program, this article discusses... more After an assessment of the Horizon 2020 European Defence Research Program, this article discusses the basic assumption behind both civilian and military expenditures, namely, that such expenditures foster economic growth and are successful anti-crises policies. First, the historical example of the long period of economic growth following WWII is considered. The conclusion is reached that it was economic growth that made possible such expenditures rather than the other way around. Theoretical arguments and empirical data are submitted to substantiate this claim. The Keynesian multiplier and its alternative, the Marxist multiplier, are examined. Finally, the article considers the advantages and disadvantages of the production and export of arms. The following conclusion is reached: the production of weapons (a) while enriching the producers of weapons contributes to the tendential fall of the average rate of profit in the producing and exporting country, (b) impoverishes the workers o...
It is often argued by Marxist and non-Marxist authors alike (see, for example, Bronfenbrenner, 19... more It is often argued by Marxist and non-Marxist authors alike (see, for example, Bronfenbrenner, 1968; Horverak, 1988) that Marx’s production prices, the outcome of the transformation procedure in volume III of Capital, are equilibrium prices and that, as far as this is concerned, there is no substantial difference with equilibrium prices as in neoclassical price theory (hereafter NCPT). Conversely this chapter argues that neoclassical equilibrium prices have a radically different theoretical status and social content than Marxian production prices.1
... whose historical role was, finally, to partici-pate in or even to hasten the development of m... more ... whose historical role was, finally, to partici-pate in or even to hasten the development of modern national economies based on wage labor, to forget that Marx intended his work as a contribu-tion not to economics but to its critique. The essay by Guglielmo Carchedi published ...
... Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Carchedi, Guglielmo. PUBLISHER: B. Blackwell (Oxford Ox... more ... Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Carchedi, Guglielmo. PUBLISHER: B. Blackwell (Oxford Oxfordshire and New York, NY, USA). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1987. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0631154833 ). VOLUME/EDITION: PAGES (INTRO/BODY): xi, 289 p. ...
This work focuses exclusively on the modern economic aspects of imperialism. We define it as a pe... more This work focuses exclusively on the modern economic aspects of imperialism. We define it as a persistent and long-term net appropriation of surplus value by the high-technology imperialist countries from the low-technology dominated countries. This process is placed within the secular tendential fall in profitability, not only in the imperialist countries but also in the dominated ones. We identify four channels through which surplus value flows to the imperialist countries: currency seigniorage; income flows from capital investments; unequal exchange through trade; and changes in exchange rates. We pay particular attention to the theorisation and quantification of international UE and of exchange-rate movements. Concerning UE, we extend Marx’s transformation procedure to the international setting. We use two variables in the analysis of UE: the organic composition of capital and the rate of exploitation, and we measure which of these two variables is more important in contributing...
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