Burczak / Garnett Jr. / McIntyre Knowledge, Class and Economics

Marxism without Guarantees
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-79808-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 532 Seiten

Reihe: Economics as Social Theory

The historical materialism of the classical Marxist tradition envisions human history as a developmental sequence, with each stage defined by the level of technology and the corresponding mode of production. Marx and Engels themselves expressed confidence that socialism and communism were gestating within 19th century capitalism, just as capitalism had gestated for centuries within European feudalism. Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff, both Economics professors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, responded to the teleology and economism of this Marxist orthodoxy by adopting a notion of overdetermination from Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. In the hands of Resnick and Wolff, overdetermination became a methodological-cum-ontological premise according to which every social phenomenon is to be understood as the byproduct of an infinitely complex causal web that defies reduction to any subset of causes. For Resnick and Wolff, the Marxist project is to envision and examine the conditions and consequences of class processes: exploitative and non-exploitative, actual and envisioned.

This book presents a broad, reflective survey of the "Amherst school" of non-determinist Marxist political economy inspired by the work of Resnick and Wolff: its elemental concepts, intellectual origins, and future prospects, and the multiple pathways explored in its 40-year evolution. The volume’s original essays reflect the range of projects and perspectives that comprise the Amherst school and it’s defining ideas: a novel conception of class as a process of performing, appropriating, and distributing surplus labor, and an overarching open-system framework that presupposes the irreducible complexity and contingency of social-historical events. The Amherst school has influenced contemporary economic theory, literary theory, diverse strands of the Marxian tradition, and major intellectual movements of the late 20th century: postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, feminism, deconstruction, poststructuralism and postmodernism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burczak, Theodore A.

Burczak, Theodore

Garnett Jr., Robert F.

Garnett Jr., Robert

McIntyre, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Labor, value, class 1. Class and Overdetermination: Value Theory and the Core of Resnick and Wolff’s Marxism Bruce Roberts 2. Wolff and Resnick’s Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Value and Surplus-Value: Where’s the Money? Fred Moseley 3. Rethinking Labor: Surplus, Class, and Justice Eray Duzenli Part II: Economics without guarantees 4. Strangers in a Strange Land: A Marxian Critique of Economics David Ruccio 5. Marxian Economics without Teleology: The Big New Life of Class Bruce Norton 6. Class-Analytic Marxism and the Recovery of the Marxian Theory of Enterprise Erik Olsen 7. Uncertainty and Overdetermination Donald Katzner 8. Catallactic Marxism: Marx, Hayek, and the Market Theodore Burczak Part III: Heretical materialism 9. The Last Instance: Resnick and Wolff at the Point of Heresy Warren Montag 10. Aleatory Marxism: Resnick, Wolff, and the Revivification of Althusser Joseph Childers 11. Process: Tracing Connections and Consequences Yahya Madra Part IV: Appraising the postmodern turn 12. Marxism’s Double Task: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Postmodernism Jan Rehmann 13. Overdetermination: The Ethical Moment George DeMartino 14. The Cost of Anti-Essentialism Paul Smith 15. Marxism and Postmodernism: Replies to Rehmann, DeMartino, and Smith Richard Wolff Part V: Postcolonial Marx 16. Global Marx Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 17. Primitive Accumulation and Historical Inevitability: A Postcolonial Critique Anjan Chakrabarti, Stephen Cullenberg, and Anup Dhar 18. Draining the "Blood Energy": Destruction of Independent Production and the Creation of Migrant Workers in Post-Reform China Lorrayne Carroll and Joseph Medley 19. Problematizing the Global Economy: Financialization or "Feudalization" of Capital? Ian J. Seda-Irizarry and Rajesh Bhattacharya 20. Reproduction of Noncapital: A Marxian Perspective on the Informal Economy in India Snehashish Bhattacharya Part VI: Capitalism and class analysis 21. Management Ideologies and the Class Structure of Capitalist Enterprises: Shareholderism vs. Stakeholderism at Scott Paper Company Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre 22. Lewis L. Lorwin’s "Five-Year Plan for the World": A Subsumed Class Response to the Crises of the 1930s Claude Misukiewicz 23. Unproductive Exploitation: In Search of the Capitalist Working Class Catherine P. Mulder Part VII: Communism without guarantees 24. Bad Communisms Kenan Ercel and Maliha Safri 25. Hope without Guarantees: Overdeterminist Anti-Capitalism amidst Neoliberal Precarity Ellen Russell Part VIII: Knowledge and class in everyday life 26. The Work of Sex Harriet Fraad 27. Homelessness as Violence: Bad People, Bad Policy, or Overdetermined Social Processes? Vin Lyon-Callo 28. Family Farms, Class, and the Future of Food Elizabeth Ramey 29. A Long Shadow and Undiscovered Country: Notes on the Class Analysis of Education Masato Aoki 30. Ecological Challenges to Marxism Anna Vlachou