Just as Mario Tronti wanted to engage with Marx in his own time, how do we approach Operai e capitale (Workers and Capital) on the basis of capitalism today? The latest deep-dive from the Past & Present Reading Group gives some pathways.
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What political economy approach can reveal the internal relations of exploitation and expropriation through a focus on related class struggles and broader alliances across the spheres of production and social reproduction?
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Political Economy Seminar
Class, Party, and American Politics in 2024
Speaker: Matthew Karp, Princeton University
Time and date: Friday, 2 August 2024, 4-5:30 pm
Location: A02 Social Sciences Building, Room 650, The University of Sydney
Abstract: It may be [...]
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My first introduction to Michael Lebowitz’s Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class was through social reproduction theory. Specifically Tithi Bhattacharya’s chapter ‘How not to skip class’ in Social Reproduction Theory uses Lebowitz as a basis for centreing social [...]
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In 2013 I was handcuffed outside the Bank of England. The handcuffs were bought at a joke shop and the protest – a guerrilla performance – took place on one of the few remaining pockets of public land in the City of London. In the strolling guerrilla street show BACS: Bankers on Community [...]
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There are many things going on in Social Movements in Latin America. Mapping the Mosaic. I especially appreciated the critical discussions of cultural political economy, of autonomy, of left critiques of progressive but extractivist governments, and the plea to account for the [...]
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During the Spring semester 2019, students on the module Globalisation and Resistance in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham-UK carried out independent research projects. In addition to writing a 4,000 word essay, they also composed [...]
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This is my talk on “Is there common ground between identity politics and class struggle?” given at the 2018 Historical Materialism Sydney conference.
This talk is underpinned by a commitment to the global struggle for a fairer, more just world, for transformative change, for a [...]
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