Marxian Theories

This 11 page essay explores the development of the Marxian "Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall" in the more complex, more 'thought-concrete', more determinations-rich categorial context of FIXED CAPITAL and WORLD-MARKET COMPETITION.  This means taking into account the impact of accelerating technological obsolescence depreciation -- "moral depreciation" [Marx] -- on industrial-capital and loan capital profitability and capital-value-loss, and the role of 'capital-inflation' as well as of prices-inflation -- the former via accelerated accumulation of 'parasitic pseudo-capital', of two kinds -- on the causation of capitalist socio-economic CRISES, and the role of 'capital-deflation', the destruction of capital as such, destroying both productive capital and non-productive, 'parasitic pseudo-capital', in the recovery from such crises.

This book elaborates the neglected clues to the nature of the higher successor system to the [state-]capitalist system that were left behind in Marx's writings, and elaborates those clues into a fully-developed vision of that successor system, described herein as 'Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY'.  The full development of this vision includes detailed draft constitutional amendments, and statutes, for the establishment of Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY' in the United States of America.

This article investigates the Marxian critique as a part of contemporary emancipatory project. After a detailed discussion about Althusser's contribution and legacy, the second part of the article discusses the difference between Marxian critique and the philosophical tradition and argues that the Marxian critique cannot be properly understood without taking into account its emancipatory objective and its specific methodology that the article conceptualizes as "projective historicization."

F*ck May 68, Fight Now: Exploring the Uses of the Radical Past from 1968 to Today

Session 1: History is a Weapon

June 8, 2018

Department of History, University of Liverpool

https://archive.discoversociety.org/2018/09/04/circumnavigating-the-past-foreclosing-the-future-commemoration-of-the-radical-past-in-the-amnesiac-present/

Panel 30: Great Refusals: Refusing One Dimensionality Today

The Dialectics of Liberation in an Age of Neoliberal Capitalism

International Herbert Marcuse Society

Seventh Biennial Conference

26-28 October 2017

York University

https://marcuseconference.wordpress.com/