Aufheben
Articles from aufheben, a Brighton-based annual Marxist journal with autonomist influences. For aufheben's homepage on libcom see http://libcom.org/aufheben
Somalia and the Islamic threat to capital
Aufheben gives the background to the civil war, famine and the US invasion of Somalia in 1992.
[b] A/ THE SOMALIA MYSTERY [/b]
Class Decomposition In The New World Order: Yugoslavia Unravelled
(1) Introduction
Review: The State Debate and Post Fordism and Social Form
Theorising the relation between state and capital is an important task. This review article looks at two important contributions to the understanding of this problem and places them in the context of the failed strategies of the left.
School, the police, social workers, the DSS, prisons....the proletarian rebel knows full well that the state is her enemy!
Review: Fascism / Anti-Fascism by Jean Barrot
Does antifascism necessarily entail supporting one face of the state against another?
Intakes: Some Critical Notes on Earth First!
Earth First! has begun to develop into a significant force within the British Green movement. We reprint an article by a dissident member who argues that its uncritical adoption of certain theoretical strands from the U.S.A. is at the expense of an understanding of capitalism and democracy.
Some Critical Notes on Earth First! ... from Within
EMUs in the class war
The developing New World Order, and the power of global finance capital, is accelerating the tendency of the European capitalist class to unite politically against the proletariat. The drawbacks of this strategy for the capitalist class, however, include the loss of their flexibility in fighting the proletariat at the national level.
Death of a Paper Tiger - Reflections on Class War
Class War's attempt to break out of the anarchist ghetto, which had been dominated by eccentrics and liberal pacifists, has had a profound impact on many anarchists and revolutionaries. In this issue's Intakes we have a piece written in response to the disbanding of Class War which looks at the fundamental problems of Class War's populist approach.
Death of a Paper Tiger... Reflections on Class War
Lessons From The Struggle Against The Gulf War
The slaughter by the Americans and their allies of the deserting Iraqi troops represented a defeat for the international proletariat. This article shows how class struggle militants in Britain, by positing the class war ideally rather than practically, allowed the anti-war movement to be dominated by ineffective left-liberal sentiments and tactics.
What was the USSR (Part IV)? Towards a Theory of the Deformation of Value
The fourth and final article in Aufheben's series on the USSR, dealing with the Trotskyist analysis of the USSR as a "degenerated workers' state".
So our saga on the nature of the USSR draws to a close.
What was the USSR? Part III
In the previous articles we examined various Trotskyist and neo-Trotskyist positions on the nature of the USSR.
We now turn to the theories of the less well known but more interesting Communist Left, who were among the first revolutionary Marxists to distance themselves from the Russian model by deeming it state capitalist or simply capitalist.The Russian Left Communists' critique remained at the level of an immediate response to how capitalist measures were affecting the class, whereas in both the German/D
