55 research outputs found
Polarising Development â Introducing Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis
Neoliberal economic policies, with their emphasis on market-led development and individual rationality, have been exposed as bankrupt not only by the global economic crisis but also by increasing social opposition and resistance. Social movements and critical scholars in Latin America, East Asia, Europe and the United States, alongside the Arab uprisings, have triggered renewed debate on possible different futures. While for some years any discussion of substantive alternatives has been marginalised, the global crisis since 2008 has opened up new spaces to debate, and indeed to radically rethink, the meaning of develop- ment. Debates on developmental change are no longer tethered to the pole of âreform and reproduceâ: a new pole of âcritique and strategy beyondâ neoliberal capitalism has emerged.
Despite being forcefully challenged, neoliberalism has proven remarkably resilient. In the first years since the crisis erupted, the bulk of the alternative literature pointed to continued growth in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) and in other big emerging market countries to affirm the necessary role for the state in sustaining capitalist development. New devel- opmental economists have consequently reasserted themselves. Their proposals converged into a broader demand for global Keynesianism (PatomaÌki, 2012) â a demand that is proving to be less and less realistic in the face of a deepening global economic crisis
Remaking the labour movement in Italy:The revival of strikes at Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles in 2015â17
Libya and Europe: imperialism, crisis and migration
This article examines the recent dynamics of European imperialism in Libya in the light of Marxâs theory of the global reserve army of labour. It analyses the limited advance of Western imperialism in Libya in the decade before the 2011 uprisings, the interactions between local, regional and international forces during and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervention, and, finally, the evolving migratory patterns from Libya. In this light, the instability along the southern and eastern Mediterranean coastline â a product of the uprisings and the forms of political reactions they unleashed â is simultaneously a security threat and a channel of migratory movements to European capitalism
Globalisation and Critique of Political Economy in the Light of the New Historical Critical Edition of the Writings of Marx and Engels (MEGAÂČ)
La thĂšse prĂ©sente une reconstruction de lâĂ©volution de lâanalyse marxienne de lâinternationalisation du capital en lien avec les formations sociales prĂ©capitalistes, en se basant sur la nouvelle Ă©dition historico-critique des Ă©crits de Marx et Engels, pour offrir les Ă©lĂ©ments dâune rĂ©flexion autour de lâactualitĂ© de lâĆuvre de Marx, quant Ă lâanalyse critique des processus actuels de mondialisation. Les deux premiers chapitres retracent lâĂ©volution de lâanalyse du marchĂ© mondial et de la mondialisation, du mercantilisme Ă lâĂ©conomie politique classique et Ă Hegel. Le troisiĂšme chapitre identifie les Ă©lĂ©ments de rupture et de continuitĂ© de la critique marxienne au cours des annĂ©es quarante du XIXĂšme siĂšcle. Le quatriĂšme chapitre prĂ©sente le contenu des cahiers londoniens, qui reprĂ©sentent une Ă©tape fondamentale de lâapprofondissement de la mondialisation capitaliste, et qui marquent la fin de la vision passive des peuples non europĂ©ens. Le cinquiĂšme chapitre prĂ©sente enfin la synthĂšse que lâon retrouve de ces travaux dans les manuscrits et dans les Ćuvres de la deuxiĂšme moitiĂ© des annĂ©es cinquante et dans les manuscrits de 1861-1863, et sâintĂ©resse notamment au dĂ©passement du concept de capital en gĂ©nĂ©ral et au plan articulĂ© en six ouvrages. Le premier livre du Capital inclurait certaines questions que Marx avait prĂ©vu de dĂ©velopper dans les ouvrages sur lâEtat, le commerce extĂ©rieur et le marchĂ© mondial. Lâapprofondissement des lois de dĂ©veloppement combinĂ© et inĂ©gal du capital lui a donnĂ© la possibilitĂ© dâĂ©chafauder une vision de la rĂ©volution internationale qui sâaffranchisse progressivement des Ă©lĂ©ments encore « eurocentriques » de sa rĂ©flexion des annĂ©es quarante.This thesis studies the evolution of Marx's analysis of the internationalisation of capital in relation to pre-capitalistic social formations, drawing upon the new historical critical edition of Marx and Engelsâ writings, with the aim of laying the foundation for establishing the relevance of their work to critical understanding of todayâs processes of capitalist globalisation. The first two chapters follow the development of the analysis of the world market and globalisation from mercantilism to classical political economy and Hegel. The third chapter identifies the elements of discontinuity and continuity in Marxâs critique during the 1840s, while the fourth presents the content of Marxâs London Notebooks, showing that these represent a qualitative advance in his analysis of globalisation, in which he overcomes his previous vision of the passivity of non-European peoples. The fifth chapter presents the elaboration of these studies in the manuscripts and works in the second half of the 1850s and in the 1861-63 manuscripts, focussing in particular on his advance beyond the concept of capital in general and the six-book plan which corresponded to it. As a result, Capital Volume 1 integrated themes Marx originally intended for the projected volumes on state, foreign market and world market. The deepening of his understanding of the laws of capitalist uneven and combined development allowed him to articulate a vision of world revolution which overcame some of the âEurocentricâ elements still present in the 1840s
Crisis, Revolution and Hegemonic Transition:The American Civil War and Emancipation in Marxâs Capital
Kolonialfrage und vorkapitalistische Gesellschaften: ZusĂ€tze und Ănderungen in der französische Ausgabe des ersten Bandes des Kapital (1872-75)
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