autonomist Marxism
Introduction to Antonio Negri's Marx beyond Marx
Harry Cleaver's beautifully written introduction to Antonio Negri's autonomist classic, Marx Beyond Marx.
Reading Capital Politically - Harry Cleaver
Harry Cleaver's seminal work on forming a practical, political interpretation of Marx's Capital.
The Subversion of Money-as-Command in the Current Crisis
INTRODUCTORY NOTE: This paper was written for and prsented to the Conference on Money and the State at FLACSO, Mexico City, Mexico, July 14-17, 1992. The Conference was organized by John Holloway and brought together a number of people from Mexico, the United States and Europe to discuss theoretico-political issues of money in the crisis. Several of the papers presented to that conference (including this one) were subsequently published as Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway (eds) GLOBAL CAPITAL, NATIONAL STATE AND THE POLITICS OF MONEY, London: St. Martin's Press, 1995. The following article, with the same title, appears on pp. 141-177 of that book.
THE SUBVERSION OF MONEY-AS-COMMAND IN THE CURRENT CRISIS
by Harry Cleaver Associate Professor of Economics University of Texas Austin, Texas
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Supply Side Economics: The New Phase of Capitalist Strategy in the Crisis
Cleaver's analysis of the development of New Right economic theory in the early 1980s with the idea of not merely criticising it, but of reading "it as the battle plans of the enemy in the class war".
This paper was written for the pilot issue of the French journal BABYLONE which was published in the Fall of 1981. It was translated and published in METROPOLI (Rome) and EL GALLO ILLUSTRADO (Mexico City) the same year.
SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS: THE NEW PHASE OF CAPITALIST STRATEGY IN THE CRISIS
by Harry Cleaver Assistant Professor of Economics University of Texas at Austin
Theses on Secular Crisis in Capitalism
Harry Cleaver's contribution to a critique on both the invincibility of capitalism after the fall of the Soviet Union and the ability of traditional Marxist theory to explain capital's continuing vulnerability.
This is a reworked set of notes presented to the session on "Secular Crisis in Capitalism: Attempts at Theorization" at the Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst Massachusetts, November 13, 1992. This text will be published in a forthcoming collection edited by Chronis Polychroniou called MARXISM AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM.
Thesis 1: We are in the midst of secular crisis.
The uses of an earthquake - Harry Cleaver
When earthquakes, floods, droughts and volcanic eruptions strike where we live, they are usually considered instances of crisis and unmitigated natural disaster. Yet, recently I have had opportunities to witness how the meaning of crisis depends entirely on one's point of view.
The opportunities have come during two visits to Mexico City. The first visit was a month or so after the major earthquake of 1985 that brought widely reported death and destruction. The second was a follow-up visit seven months later.
The Zapatista Effect: The Internet and the rise of an alternative political fabric
Harry Cleaver looks at the role of technology and the internet in spreading class struggle.
The primacy of the nation state is being challenged from both above and below.
The Contradictions of the Green Revolution - Harry Cleaver
US academic Harry Cleaver's polemic against the 'green' technocratic agricultural developments in post-WWII capitalism. In PDF format.
Work is still the central issue - Harry Cleaver
Text by US academic Harry Cleaver, showing why work is still central to today's society, and that a Marxist economic analysis is still relevant.
Work is Still the Central Issue!*
New Words for New Worlds
The historiography of the mass worker - Steve Wright
Steve Wright's historical study of the development of the mass worker across the world and the effect it had on working class struggle.
This article by Steve Wright appeared in The Commoner, No.5, in 2002. It is also reproduced here in its original pdf format (100kb).
The Historiography of the Mass Worker
(Chapter 8 of Storming Heaven: Class composition and struggle in Italian autonomist marxism)
