Common Sense
Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist Economists.
Notes on Class
Richard Gunn's notes offer a lucid contribution to the attempt of elaborating what is meant when the concept "class" is employed in Marxist thought.
NOTES ON 'CLASS'
Richard Gunn
(Common Sense, No. 2, 1987)
1990-1992: Britain and the politics of the European exchange rate mechanism
Werner Bonefeld's detailed analysis of Britain's involvement in the European exchange rate mechanism, out of which it famously crashed in 1992.
No politics without inquiry!
This article is a direct appeal for like-minded people to come together in a project of shared political work. The idea is: to muster all available forces to work on a militant class-composition study project. This is to inform, and to be the basis of, possible future political organisation.
No Politics Without Inquiry!
A Proposal for a Class Composition Inquiry Project 1996-7
Ed Emery
in: Common Sense, No. 18, December 1995
This article is a direct appeal for like-minded people to come together in a project of shared political work.
The Permanance of Primitive Accumulation
Werner Bonefeld's article on primitive accumulation arguing that it is not just a phenomenon relating to the emergence of capitalism but is a necessary element of it, the "social constitution of capitalist social relations".
The Permanance of Primitive Accumulation: Commodity Fetishism and Social Constitution
Werner Bonefeld
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General intellect - Maurizio Lazzarato
Maurizio Lazzarato's inquiry into the production of informational/cultural content as a commodity.
GENERAL INTELLECT:
Towards an Inquiry into Immaterial Labour
by Maurizio Lazzarato
translated by Ed Emery
[TRANSLATOR'S NOTE: This is a rough working version. I have put it on this site while we work on the final text. Please do not copy or circulate]
The concept of power and the Zapatistas
The following article was contributed to autonomedia by John Holloway. We thank John Holloway for his kind permission. It was first published in Common Sense # 19, June 1996.
The Concept of Power and the Zapatistas
John Holloway
Dignity's revolt
The following article was contributed to autonomedia by John Holloway. It is the Chapter 8 of the forthcoming book, Zapatistas! Reinventing the Revolution in Mexico, edited by John Holloway and Eloina Pelaez.
It will be published in London by Pluto Press in June/July 1998. We thank John Holloway for his kind permission. A brief version of this article was published in Common Sense # 22, December 1997.
Dignity's Revolt
John Holloway
I
Dignity arose on the first day of January 1994.
Capital moves
Capital moves.
Author: Holloway, John. Source: Capital & Class no57 (Autumn 1995) p. 137-44 ISSN: 0309-8168 Number: BSSI96006690 Copyright: The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited.
A critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School
A Critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School
Ferruccio Gambino
translated by Ed Emery (in: Common Sense No. 19, June 1996)
Wildcat-Zirkular No. 28/29 - October 1996 - pp. (german edition) 139-160 [z28e_gam.htm]
Introduction
Mexico is not only Chiapas
MEXICO IS NOT ONLY CHIAPAS NOR IS THE REBELLION IN CHIAPAS MERELY A MEXICAN AFFAIR.
In January 1994, in the south eastern state of Chiapas in Mexico, news of the Zapatistas armed revolt composed mainly of Indian peasants, travelled all over the world bringing about an explosion of interest and information on Mexico because the rebellion was automatically connected with the Mexican revolution.
