Crisis Of Capitalism Research Articles

Queer Sex and the Crisis of Capital

Queer Sex and the Crisis of Capital

Educação Ambiental nas Lareiras do Capital: uma crítica à agenda neoliberal

ABSTRACT This article aims to discuss the relationship between neoliberalism and environmental education. Since the 1970s, the neoliberal agenda has modified economic, political, cultural, social, and educational structures in the countries that adopted it. Environmental education was not left out of these changes, becoming, in many cases, a tool that instrumentalizes nature and simplifies environmental problems. The theoretical-methodological perspective used in this text is based on sociological and historical analyses of neoliberalism, the crises of capitalism, and aspects of critical environmental education. The results presented revolve around the discussion on citizenship and political practices, in addition to the need for incisive decisions on environmental problems.

Histories and Futures of Business in a Turbulent World

When it comes to events that have marked turning points in the relationship between global governance and business history, I have focused on the role of international crises to understand the forces shaping relations between firms, states, and global governance frameworks. Such an approach stems from the fact that I am primarily an historian of international relations, and much of my research and writing is concentrated on European and global history in the period from about 1880 to 1950. For me, the origins and course of the two world wars and the Cold War have been as important as crises of capitalism, such as the Great Depression.

Exploitation, Capitalist Crisis, and Democratic Planning: Problems of Piketty’s Socialism

Thomas Piketty is the most politically and economically important participant in the ongoing debate about the deleterious effects of income and wealth inequality. The article analyses his arguments carefully because they give Marxists an opportunity to intervene in a mainstream political-economic debate in which they are generally not taken seriously. As impressive as Piketty’s argument is, and as willing as he is to embrace a socialist solution to capitalist crisis, a non-dogmatic Marxist examination of his texts reveals that his argument does not grasp at the most systematic level the connections between the driving forces of the capitalist economy and the undemocratic implications of widening inequality. This article will argue that although his critique acknowledges the structural inequality of power between workers and capitalists upon which capitalist society depends, his argument points towards an organic link between the exploitation of labour, the falling rate of profit, capitalist crisis, the shift of investment from the productive economy to the financial sector, and growing inequality that he does not explicitly formulate.

Notes on Abolitionist Pedagogy from Philadelphia

Rooted in Arundhati Roy's insistence that "the pandemic is a portal" through which to imagine a world beyond the current crises of racial capitalism, this essay reflects on what abolitionist pedagogy might mean by offering an account of the author's own institutional location and of her students' engagements with activists, artists, and community members who draw crucial connections between the University of Pennsylvania's material relation to the city of Philadelphia and the ongoing reality of racialized criminalization that is a legacy of the eighteenth century. Building on this situated example of abolitionist pedagogy, the essay offers a broader model for how the intellectual, social, and material practice of eighteenth-century studies might be more actively engaged with local social-justice struggles, which are not separate from the eighteenth-century histories we study. The essay attends to the material locations of academic work, from the hotels that host our conferences to the universities that employ (or don't employ) us as scholars.

An Analysis of the Critical Theory of the Ecological Crisis of Gorz's Capitalism

An Analysis of the Critical Theory of the Ecological Crisis of Gorz's Capitalism

Dependence and Super-exploitation of Labor in Latin America

This essay aims to expose the theoretical perspective of the exploitation of work in Marx for you discuss a relationship with one of the most important theses of the Marxist theory of the TMD exposed by brazilian intellectual Ruy Mauro MarinI: the extension of the super-exploitation of work to advanced capitalism as a new form of the expanded reproduction of capital for to counteract the economic crisis of capitalism and the growing problems in the production of value and surplus value that press the fall of the average rate of profit in the system.

Современный посткапитализм и диалектика учения о трех формах хозяйства

The article attempts to show the development of K. Marx’s dialectical doctrine of the three forms of economy on the materials of the modern crisis of capitalism and the post-capitalist formation outlines. The theoretical concept of three forms of economy, which became popular, was proposed by early Marx in the form of a typology of the development individuality dependence from society in the forms of personal dependence, personal independence based on material dependence, and finally, free individuality based on the universal development of individuals. Subsequently, the domestic school of political economy methodology transformed the content of the three forms into the original production relation doctrine, which together with the basic production relation forms the two-part identifier of each socio-economic formation. The driving forces and internal contradictions of the transition to each form of economy are shown. The essence manifestations of the form of “removal” of the contradiction between the tasks of development of the individual and society in the modern postcapitalist society in the form of planning and socialization of production, which form a new initial productive relation of postcapitalism – “the personal dependence of man on the basis of the mental dependence on society” are highlighted. On the basis of the comparison of the doctrine of the three forms of economy and the theory of noonomics, a reasonable conclusion is presented that the actual resolution, rather than the “removal” of the contradiction between the individual and society is possible within noo-society.

Capitalist Crisis Poetry: Lyric Encounters with Neoliberalism in the Twenty-First Century

Capitalist Crisis Poetry: Lyric Encounters with Neoliberalism in the Twenty-First Century

The Two Capitalist Crises of the Last Century: Some Comparative Notes

The Two Capitalist Crises of the Last Century: Some Comparative Notes

O valor da educação pública

This article seeks to reflect on the impacts of managerial ideology observed in the search for quantifiable results in public schools. Therefore, we will analyze some of the impacts of external evaluations on public school in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), between the years 2015-2020. The objective is to understand the so-called quasi-market in public school, adapted by a technocratic logic that is inserted in the education processes through managerialism and managerialization aiming, in this particular, to build curricula for quantitative results. In addition to the exchanges between companies and schools that also foster a quasi-market. For that, we observe points of the crisis of capitalism, from the 1980s, which helped to strengthen this technocratic logic in the public sector. What is sought to show in the concrete management of public education resources, based on the gaucho taxation policy between the years 2015-2020. For this, in addition to the bibliographic analysis, we used semi-structured interviews, which took place between 2018 and 2020, among five state public high schools in the city of Santa Maria/RS. In schools, the following were interviewed: teachers; director; pedagogical coordinators; deputy director, totaling nine respondents. With the use of the interview, the predominance of perspectives of the interviewees in tension with understandings about what should underlie the work of school socialization was observed. For, first, as observed in these reports, the concern should be the student's actual learning, which is beyond the numbers. KEYWORDS: Public school. External assessments. Quasi-market. Quantitative results.

The Future of Dystopia

Dystopia, just as utopia, has always been immersed in political visions: utopia ‎as an ideal society and dystopia as its opposite: ‘bad place’ – a futuristic, usually ‎very near future, an imagined universe in which oppressive social control ‎rules. However, utopia and dystopia cannot be absolutely separated, there is‎ a constant threat of replacing good place by bad place, very often leading to‎ the conclusion that every utopia either leads to dystopia or already is dystopia.‎ Today, it often seems that the dystopian future has already arrived, the reality ‎itself evokes dystopian imagination: the global warming and the catastrophes, ‎the monstrous underside of various technologies that would ultimately over-power‎ us – humans. Furthermore, both utopia and dystopia are narratives about ‎how to govern the commons. Whereas in the past the commons appeared in ‎different utopian visions of good governing, today most often the commons ‎fleshes out in disfigured forms of dystopian narratives. In this essay I analyze ‎dystopian imagination as a traumatic symptom of the commons, expressed in‎different narratives of the crisis of capitalism (the Anthropocene, the global‎ monsters, the uncanny weather, metaverse, neo- or techno-feudalism).‎

“And so with the moderns”: The Role of the Revolutionary Writer and the Mythicization of History in J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus

The focus of this article is J. Leslie Mitchell’s Spartacus (1933), his fictional representation of the slave rebellion in ancient Rome led by the eponymous gladiator. The article begins by examining Mitchell’s contribution to debates over the role of the revolutionary writer in Left Review in the mid-1930s and his place in the British Left in this era, before going on to survey the ways in which the figure of Spartacus and the German Spartacists are represented across Mitchell’s oeuvre. It then explores key source material utilized in the writing of the novel, as well as outlining comparisons between Mitchell’s representation of Spartacus and those of his fellow novelists Howard Fast and Arthur Koestler. Including close readings of Spartacus and informed by archival research and previously unpublished manuscript items, the article argues that at the same time as denouncing the cruelties of Roman rule, Spartacus also signals Mitchell’s passionate opposition to what he considered the violent histories of oppression suffered by the commons of the earth of all times, culminating in the capitalist crisis of Mitchell’s own period in the 1930s. Mitchell creates this effect of historical simultaneity by writing a work of myth-history – as opposed to historical realism or political propaganda – that employs the utopian legend of the Golden Age to inspire radical dissent against modern deprivation.

Manufacturing consent: explanatory model of media functioning

The research gives an account to the concept of E. Herman and N. Chomsky, focused on the role of media in the manufacturing of elite consent in modern American society. Two leading approaches to media power – liberal-pluralistic and critical political economy forms the framework of the research. The genesis and content of the concept of "manufacturing of consent" is considered. Neo–Marxist tradition of analysis forms the background of the authors' concept of the production of consent as a means of nonviolent domination and maintaining the status quo. The study examines the propaganda media filters promoted to elite consensus. The article gives recognition to the importance of understanding propaganda filters as an analytical tool that identifies structural factors determining the position of media in the context of power relations in society. Factors / filters of market and profit orientation; advertising; dependence on key sources; threats of defamation in relation to the media; dominant ideology provide better understanding of the place and role of media in the system of state and corporate power in the United States. The Herman and Chomsky concept proposed more than three decades ago continues to be relevant under the current conditions of rapid progress of communication technologies and crucial changes in the media landscape. There is a further growth of powerful media conglomerates; the level of concentration in the Internet segment significantly exceeds traditional media. The growth of corporate influence accompanied with the strengthening of the market imperative in the media management. In the context of crisis of global capitalism and increase tensions of international relations, the ideological filter of anti-communism has received a new form - the anti-Russian dominant ideology.

Background check: Spatiality and relationality in Nancy Fraser's expanded conception of capitalism

Nancy Fraser's recent work on the hidden abodes of capitalism has quickly become a critical point of reference for those concerned with the racialized, gendered, and ecological conditions of capitalist reproduction. With that in view, this article seeks to extend Fraser's conceptualization through a sympathetic critique of her approach to capitalism's foreground/background nexus. After situating Fraser's project in relation to Marx (and his own engagement with capitalism's background conditions of possibility), it argues that (1) Fraser fails to adequately theorize how capitalist crisis is produced and resolved in space and (2) that Fraser obscures the relational-dialectical constitution of her own hidden abodes. This article then develops an alternative theoretical approach to capitalism's foreground/background relationship, based on a synthetic reading of Fraser's framework and the work of geographer Jason W. Moore. Finally, it closes with some brief reflections on the implications of this theorization for contemporary socialist politics.

Report: Hungarian Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference 2022

Report: Hungarian Studies Association of Canada Annual Conference 2022

안데스의 수막 까우사이와 아이유: 조화와 공존

The idea of ecological civilization is of growing importance as an antidote to the crisis of capitalism facing all humanity in today’s society. Ecological civilization aims at the mode of life in which humans live in harmony with the natural world, recognizing the shared proprietorship of both. Therefore, communitarianism, that is, a communal way of life, mathers in such a mode of life and hence the need to shed new light on Sumak Kawsay (buen vivir) of the indigenous people in the Andes of Latin America. In the age of the Inca Empire, the Andean indigenous people sought to realize Sumak Kawsay they sought in their community, which they called ayllu. It meant respect for the natural would, which they called pachamama; moreover, it extolled the mutual harmony of nankind and nature. They lived a communal life of sharing land and exchanging labor, although the transactions within ayllu were based on realistic needs, and were accompanied by coercion and punishment. Clearly this forms a stark contrast to life in today’s capitalist society where competition, discrimination and hatred dominate. The life of the Andean indigenous people, which seeks coexistence with nature and cooperation among community members, is worth noting particularly as a new alternative to the life under capitalism.

The capitalist virus

Borders and mobilities have played key roles in the transformations of capitalism that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic. We attempt to distinguish novel developments in the control of movements of bodies, labour, and capital from processes of renationalisation, financialisation, and platformisation that were in train before the outbreak. Focusing on logistical techniques and technologies that govern the global circulation of people and things, this article explores the spatial shifts and ruptures that have marked the capitalist crisis occasioned by the pandemic. We give empirical attention to movements and struggles of migration in China, India, the Americas, and the Mediterranean.

THE DISTINCTIVE EVOLUTION OF HOUSING FINANCIALIZATION IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO

AbstractAfter defaulting on their foreign‐debt obligations in the 1980s, several Latin American countries had to restructure their economies to boost market‐led growth. Some of the ensuing housing reforms promoted mortgage expansion and mass housing production. Mexico was among the first countries to follow this logic, and in a particularly aggressive manner. Credit liberalization allowed a handful of real estate firms to experience massive expansions in their operations in the 2000s as they were able to build lower‐middle‐income housing at an accelerated rate by accessing public, pension and private equity funds. Brazil eventually appropriated some aspects of the Mexican housing model, but not others. In the late 2000s, Brazil began providing deep subsidies to low‐income households to connect the private supply of housing with a publicly subsidized demand. This article discusses, challenges and moves beyond prior analyses of these processes by contrasting the two countries’ housing finance models and examining the more recent (2010s) evolution and normative shifts in their housing and urban development policy agendas. Despite the direct policy transfer between the two contexts, the South‐South comparative analysis presented in the article highlights the fluctuating and unstable nature of financialization processes given the varied inclination of national governments to manage, promote or restrict them, or to contain or accentuate capitalist crises and their implications.

Disruption from above, the middle and below: Three terrains of governance

AbstractThe term disruption has become a buzzword for our times, although there is little clarity over what the term means, how it is deployed, and towards what ends. In order to understand the analytical and political stakes that are embedded in the deployment of ‘disruption’ as a rationale for various sources of upheaval, in this article I argue that these three terrains of disruption should be understood as theories of governance, and term them ‘disruption from above’, ‘disruption from the middle’, and ‘disruption from below’. Each terrain of disruption embodies different ethoses, actors, and goals: the first connoting elite-driven creative destruction and innovation; the second obfuscating the capitalist imperative that produces world-systemic upheavals; and the third seeking to expose the structures of violence and inequality built into such practices. I illustrate these three terrains through a structural account that traces the popularity of the disruption discourse from its origins to its material application; analyse an illustrative example of the assetisation of infrastructure and how it bureaucratises governance and shifts relations of power; and conclude by examining infrastructural forms of protest against such forms. I argue that the confusion over what disruption means, who exercises it, and upon whom is not a coincidence: rather, disruption's polysemy is structurally produced as a way to disguise ongoing capitalist crisis as a technical problem that market innovations can solve.