Books by Harry Cleaver
The Fragile Juggernaut: Marx & Engels on Capitalism, Class Struggle and Crisis , 2024
For those who have read and downloaded my 1982 essay on "Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of C... more For those who have read and downloaded my 1982 essay on "Marx's Theory of Crisis as a Theory of Class Struggle", this document includes the Outline, one Preface and the Introduction to the book-length amplification of that essay that I am currently preparing for publication. Most of the hyperlinks have been disabled - being only of use inside the complete manuscript. At any rate, for those interested, these will give you an idea of what is forthcoming but now in only near-completed manuscript form. Enjoy?
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Thirty-Three Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically, 2019
This manuscript was the basis of the Pluto Press book by the same title. Other than pagination, t... more This manuscript was the basis of the Pluto Press book by the same title. Other than pagination, the main differences between this manuscript and the published book are 1) one is digital, one is hard copy, 2) the digital version can be searched, 3) the hard copy version has a detailed index. Both manuscript and published book were revised versions of my online, illustrated "study guide" to Volume I of CAPITAL, accessible at http://la.utexas.edu/users/hcleaver/357k/357ksg.html
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33 Lessons on Capital: Reading Marx Politically, 2019
This introduction to my forthcoming book, 33 Lessons on Capital, explains its origins – in my onl... more This introduction to my forthcoming book, 33 Lessons on Capital, explains its origins – in my online "study guide" to Volume I – and its substance – 33 summaries and commentaries on the 33 chapters of Volume I. Each of those commentaries provides explanations of key points, of their continuing relevance 150 years after they were published, critiques of his analysis and extensions of the analysis to sectors of the working class rarely touched by Marx, e.g., peasants, housewives, the indigenous and students. Originally composed for students in the US they also contain a variety of illustrative material drawn from American history to complement that usually chosen by Marx from British or European experiences.
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The Labour Debate. An investigation into the theory and reality of capitalist work, 2002
In a world dominated by capitalist work (labour), working for a wage is the central unavoidable r... more In a world dominated by capitalist work (labour), working for a wage is the central unavoidable reality of modern social life. And yet, the category of labour remains underdeveloped in social sciences. While waged labour in all its forms, including unemployment and mass poverty, has now invaded all aspects of social life, labour appears to have disappeared as a practice that constitutes modern society. This book revitalises labour as the fundamental constitutive principle of the social world, through a radical reinterpretation of Marx’s social theory. Each chapter develops a central Marxist theme: the continuing centrality of work; class and classification; commodity fetishism and primitive accumulation; labour movements and the way in which labour moves; unemployment, subjectivity and class consciousness, and the new forms of resistance developed in Europe, Latin America and East Asia. In conclusion, the editors give an account of what they consider to be the main critical and practical problems and possibilities confronting the concept and reality of labour in the 21st century.
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
From Here to Utopia: Finding Inspiration for the Labour Debate
Ana C. Dinerstein and Michael Neary 1
1 What Labour Debate?
1.1 Class and Classification: Against, In and Beyond Labour
John Holloway p.27
1.2 Class Struggle and the Working Class: The Problem of Commodity Fetishism
Simon Clarke p.41
1.3 The Narrowing of Marxism: A Comment on Simon Clarke’s Comments
John Holloway p.61
2 Capital, Labour and Primitive Accumulation: On Class and Constitution
Werner Bonefeld p.65
3 Labour and Subjectivity: Rethinking the Limits of Working Class Consciousness
Graham Taylor p. 89
4 Hayek, Bentham and the Global Work Machine: The Emergence of the Fractal-Panopticon Massimo De Angelis p. 108
5 Work is Still the Central Issue! New Words for New Worlds
Harry Cleaver p. 135
6 Labour Moves: A Critique of the Concept of Social Movement Unionism
Michael Neary p . 149
7 Fuel for the Living Fire: Labour-Power!
Glenn Rikowski p. 179
8 Regaining Materiality: Unemployment and the Invisible Subjectivity of Labour
Ana C. Dinerstein p. 203
9 Anti-Value-in-Motion: Labour, Real Subsumption and the Struggles against Capitalism
Ana C. Dinerstein and Michael Neary
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Una Lectura Política de EL CAPITAL, 1985
This is the complete Spanish language version of READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY (1979).
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Una Lectura Política de EL CAPITAL, 1985
This text includes the Spanish language versions of Chapter VI: Conclusion, Bibliography and Tabl... more This text includes the Spanish language versions of Chapter VI: Conclusion, Bibliography and Table of Contents of READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY (1979).
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Una Lectura Política de EL CAPITAL, 1985
This text is the Spanish language version of Chapter V: The Form of value of READING CAPITAL POLI... more This text is the Spanish language version of Chapter V: The Form of value of READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY (1979).
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Una Lectura Politica de EL CAPITAL, 1985
This text is the Spanish language version of Chapter IV: The Twofold character of labour of READI... more This text is the Spanish language version of Chapter IV: The Twofold character of labour of READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY (1979).
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Una Lectura Política de EL CAPITAL, 1985
This text is the Spanish language version of Chapter III of READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY (1979).
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Una Lectura Política de EL CAPITAL, 1985
This text is the Spanish language version of Chapter II: The Commodity-Form of READING CAPITAL PO... more This text is the Spanish language version of Chapter II: The Commodity-Form of READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY (1979).
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Una Lectura Política de EL CAPITAL, 1985
This text is the Spanish language version of the author's introduction to the READING CAPITAL POL... more This text is the Spanish language version of the author's introduction to the READING CAPITAL POLITICALLY (1979).
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Una Lectura Política de “El Capital”, 1985
This text includes the Spanish language versions of 1) the author's preface to the Mexican editio... more This text includes the Spanish language versions of 1) the author's preface to the Mexican edition (1985) of READING CAPITAL POLITCIALLY (1979) and 2) an introduction by Gustavo Esteva (1981).
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This is the Polish translation of "A Note to Polish Readers", the preface to the Polish translati... more This is the Polish translation of "A Note to Polish Readers", the preface to the Polish translation of "Marxist Crisis Theory as a Theory of Class Struggle". TEORIA KRYZYSU: JAKO TEORIA WALKI KLASS, Poznan, 2017.
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This is the expanded, book-length version of a paper given at a Conference on Hegel, Marx and Glo... more This is the expanded, book-length version of a paper given at a Conference on Hegel, Marx and Global Crisis at the University of Warsaw, Poland, October 22-23, 2012. It is currently available from the AK Press, online catalog: https://www.akpress.org/rupturing-the-dialectic.html Consider this pdf version a "look inside the book" feature, better than that provided by Amazon.com.
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Recent contributions by Harry Cleaver
The Origins of the Green Revolution, 1974
This is my 1974 dissertation on the origins of the Green Revolution, a byproduct of a study group... more This is my 1974 dissertation on the origins of the Green Revolution, a byproduct of a study group investigating non-military aspects of the US intervention against Vietnamese independence. It traces the origins of the use of a technological "fix", i.e., the introduction of new high-yielding grains to increase food production as one strategy to reduce peasant support for revolution. Those origins turn out to be in earlier experiences in the American South after Reconstruction and in China before the Revolution in that country that brought the Communist Party to power.
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This is the Preface to a new Korean translation of Reading CAPITAL Politically that will publishe... more This is the Preface to a new Korean translation of Reading CAPITAL Politically that will published in South Korean this Fall.
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Struggles circulate; if they circulate far enough, with enough intensity and effectiveness, they ... more Struggles circulate; if they circulate far enough, with enough intensity and effectiveness, they explode into revolutions. In some cases, they merely ripple along what Karl Marx formulated as the circuits of capital – representations of sequential moments that capitalists must realize to reproduce their way of organizing social life around endless work on an ever-expanding scale. Because they are imposed, and involve exploitation and alienation, the moments of the circuits always spawn antagonism, involving various degrees of resistance. The intensity and consequences of struggles vary with the degree of exploitation and alienation involved and the types of action undertaken. Effective instrumentalization that confines opposition within closed circuits can harness it to drive capitalist development. In other cases, ripples become waves as the manner of their circulation defies harnessing and their intensity ruptures moment after moment, disrupting circuits and bringing on crisis. Marx analyzed the circuits of capital in terms of the flows and metamorphoses of value. Workers' actions, when they rupture the circuits, disrupt the flows of value, or, put differently, they disrupt capitalists' ability to impose that which is of value to them, i.e., work-as-social-control. Understanding the circuits required for the reproduction of capitalism reveals both containable patterns of struggle and criteria for recognizing when they have escaped containment to constitute new patterns of behavior that provide alternatives to capitalist modes of social organization. A variety of metaphors facilitate the recognition of both the circulation of struggles and how they may escape the circuits of capital via the creation of new modes of existence. This article is a revised version of a talk delivered to the Union for Democratic Communications' Conference on Circuits of Struggle, held at the University of Toronto on May 2, 2015. My response to the question: "what potential do you see for resistance, subversion, re-appropriation, and repurposing of communication technology as part of a network of global class struggle?" was based mainly upon an intense twelve years using e-mail (electronic mailing lists, especially Chiapas95) and web pages to circulate information about the Zapatista struggle for indigenous autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico. This also involved many discussions among those engaged in solidarity work supporting them. My response was also based, but to a lesser degree, upon more recent observation of the use of social media in other types of conflict [1]. What I offered were a few words – mostly of a
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Review of Radical Political Economics, Apr 1, 1977
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Journal of International Affairs, Mar 22, 1998
... 35-50. For an analysis of the latter see Harry Cleaver, "Reforming the CIA in the Im... more ... 35-50. For an analysis of the latter see Harry Cleaver, "Reforming the CIA in the Image of the Zapatistas?," at http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/hmconberk.html. (37) Jessica T. Mathews, "Power Shift," Foreign Affairs, 76, no. 1 (January/February 1997). ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements ix
From Here to Utopia: Finding Inspiration for the Labour Debate
Ana C. Dinerstein and Michael Neary 1
1 What Labour Debate?
1.1 Class and Classification: Against, In and Beyond Labour
John Holloway p.27
1.2 Class Struggle and the Working Class: The Problem of Commodity Fetishism
Simon Clarke p.41
1.3 The Narrowing of Marxism: A Comment on Simon Clarke’s Comments
John Holloway p.61
2 Capital, Labour and Primitive Accumulation: On Class and Constitution
Werner Bonefeld p.65
3 Labour and Subjectivity: Rethinking the Limits of Working Class Consciousness
Graham Taylor p. 89
4 Hayek, Bentham and the Global Work Machine: The Emergence of the Fractal-Panopticon Massimo De Angelis p. 108
5 Work is Still the Central Issue! New Words for New Worlds
Harry Cleaver p. 135
6 Labour Moves: A Critique of the Concept of Social Movement Unionism
Michael Neary p . 149
7 Fuel for the Living Fire: Labour-Power!
Glenn Rikowski p. 179
8 Regaining Materiality: Unemployment and the Invisible Subjectivity of Labour
Ana C. Dinerstein p. 203
9 Anti-Value-in-Motion: Labour, Real Subsumption and the Struggles against Capitalism
Ana C. Dinerstein and Michael Neary
v
Recent contributions by Harry Cleaver
Papers by Harry Cleaver
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
From Here to Utopia: Finding Inspiration for the Labour Debate
Ana C. Dinerstein and Michael Neary 1
1 What Labour Debate?
1.1 Class and Classification: Against, In and Beyond Labour
John Holloway p.27
1.2 Class Struggle and the Working Class: The Problem of Commodity Fetishism
Simon Clarke p.41
1.3 The Narrowing of Marxism: A Comment on Simon Clarke’s Comments
John Holloway p.61
2 Capital, Labour and Primitive Accumulation: On Class and Constitution
Werner Bonefeld p.65
3 Labour and Subjectivity: Rethinking the Limits of Working Class Consciousness
Graham Taylor p. 89
4 Hayek, Bentham and the Global Work Machine: The Emergence of the Fractal-Panopticon Massimo De Angelis p. 108
5 Work is Still the Central Issue! New Words for New Worlds
Harry Cleaver p. 135
6 Labour Moves: A Critique of the Concept of Social Movement Unionism
Michael Neary p . 149
7 Fuel for the Living Fire: Labour-Power!
Glenn Rikowski p. 179
8 Regaining Materiality: Unemployment and the Invisible Subjectivity of Labour
Ana C. Dinerstein p. 203
9 Anti-Value-in-Motion: Labour, Real Subsumption and the Struggles against Capitalism
Ana C. Dinerstein and Michael Neary
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