From Alpha To Omega

We continue with our reading of Chapter 2 - ‘Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.

This episode was editing by the Jordan. Thanks so much, Jordan!

The Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharing

Panelists:
Derick - Mortal Science, Varn Vlog
Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia
Kyle - General Intellect Unit
Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia

After a post covid lull, we welcome to the show Prof Helen Scott, editor of the Haymarket books version of the Rosa Luxemburg classics ‘Reform or Revolution’ and ‘The Mass Strike’. In this episode we discuss ‘Reform of Revolution’, Rosa’s text which critiqued ‘Evolutionary Socialism’, the seminal revisionist work of the dark lord of reform within the SPD, Eduard Bernstein.

Helen is currently working on Volume 5 of the complete works of Rosa Luxemburg, which is due to be released in the coming months. If you’d like to help contribute to this mammoth undertaking, you can donate here:

https://www.toledotranslationfund.org/complete_works_rosa_luxemburg

Today we read Chapter 12: ‘The Abolition of the Market’.

We welcome back Andrew Kliman to the show, to talk about a paper he recently published about the Breakdown Model of Henryk Grossman.

The paper, which contains the link to the Spanish translation:

https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/economics/henryk-grossmanns-breakdown-model-on-the-real-cause-of-the-fictitious-breakdown-tendency.html

We return to where we left off last time, in Chapter 2 - ‘Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.

Many thanks to Jordan for editing this and the next episode in the series.

The Slides:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharing

Panelists:
Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer
Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia
Kyle - General Intellect Unit
Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia 11

We finish our reading of Chapter 10: ‘The General Social Work’, and plough through Chapter 11: ‘The Accounting as an Ideational Summary of the Production and Distribution Process’.

We read Chapter 10: ‘The General Social Work’, and get deep into the bowels of the GIC 'proposal'.

The critique is over..... for now.

This week we continue on our journey through Chapter 2 : ‘The Shadow of Exploitation in Weber’s Class Analysis’.

The Slides:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RfG5oI3vCX6Z7pB3GfCH68CmYRBwrBecNIkwOgQKo4g/edit?usp=sharing

Panelists:

Derick - Mortal Science, Theorizing with a Hammer

Ezri - Swampside Chats, Mortal Science, Jumpsuit Utopia

Kyle - General Intellect Unit

Tiberius - Jumpsuit Utopia 11

We read Chapter 9: ‘The Social Average: Working Hour as the’, and read Chapter 8: ‘ The Social Average Working Hour as the Basis of Consumption’

We talk with the Swedish Procurement Guru Emanuel all about capitalist procurement theory, the flaws of standard economic demand and supply theory, and what allocation, or the lack of, in capitalism can teach us about planning a communist society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraljic_matrix