Per Henriksson

This text is an effort to address certain problems related to how to understand revolution as communisation, and the more fundamental, seemingly Marxological, question about value and abstract labour. Its aim is to discuss how, and with what categories and concepts, we are to understand the value form and therewith the laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production, as well as the abolishing of these laws by…

It's neither the practical efforts nor the will to live differently that is wrong in the dissidents' approach; we all do what we can to survive the day, to keep alienation at bay so to speak. As a strategic perspective however, it is in the end futile and impotent, as only a communist revolution can produce different lives. As the expression of the disappearance of workers' identity, it vegetates none the less in…

The fundamental, and thus most problematic, thesis in Marcel’s text is his (‘our’) abandonment of ‘Marxism’s myth of the proletariat’, i.e. our ‘dialectic that claimed communism to be the result of an internal contradiction of the capital relation’, our ‘outdated notion of the character of the revolt’. In ‘sharp contrast’ to this notion ‘we’ have now realised that ‘communism is to be understood as a “mechanical”…

Includes Part I and Part II.