"Werner Bonefeld discusses with Lillian Cicerchia his new book A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion: Wealth, Suffering, and Negation (Routledge, 2023)"

https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/vol3/iss3/3/

#Marxism #CriticalTheory #OpenMarxism #Autonomism #Capitalism

"The impact of these ideas in the US, though considerable, was mostly concentrated in literature departments. Jameson argues that “theory was always a revolt against disciplines”. While that might have been true in France in the 1960s, where the whole gamut of the sciences humaines fell to the structuralists, it wasn’t true in the US in the following two decades.

“The American interest in these people,” Jameson adds, “was certainly part of a ’60s passion for new thinking which had to do with politics as much as anything else.” But, you might ask, what kind of politics? As Todd Gitlin, a leftwing sceptic of the politics of theory, observed mordantly at the time: “While the right has been busy taking the White House, the left has been marching on the English department.”"

https://www.ft.com/content/08139cab-6655-4643-96c2-d8efaf0097b8

#Jameson #USA #CriticalTheory #Marxism #Derrida #Foucault #Barthes

"The satisfaction of Tetler’s book does not then rest on its reconstruction of the importance of ‘not-capital’ to Marx’s mature theory (although that is certainly still there). Instead, it rests upon an ingenious structure in which, through the lens of ‘not-capital’, Tetler addresses the ‘blind spots’ within one theorist’s position by drawing upon the position of the theorist who follows (138). What results is not quite a value theory battle royale, so much as an intricate dialectical progression, which takes us from Roman Rosdolsky, Mario Tronti and Toni Negri (chapter two), to Chris Arthur (chapter three), Moishe Postone, Wertkritik and John Holloway (chapter four), before eventually arriving at a ‘critique of capitalist society’, which comprises a Postonian ‘critique of labour’, an ‘open Marxist’ conception of ‘capital as class struggle’, and a Neue Marx-Lektüre inspired ‘monetary theory of value’ (chapter five). What makes Tetler’s arrival at this composite position satisfying, however, isn’t simply that our route is so skilfully crafted. Rather, it’s that – in a Marxist field oversaturated with hackneyed labels, slogans and -isms, in which movements and schools might be readily dismissed or adopted with little care, attention, or, most frustratingly, justification – the dexterity and deliberation that Marx’s Not-Capital demonstrates is so unusual."

https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21758_marxs-not-capital-labour-and-the-contemporary-critique-of-political-economy-by-benjamin-tetler-reviewed-by-will-berrington/

#Marx #CriticalTheory #Capital #Labour #Capitalism

Two of the best works ever in the critique of political philosophy and the critique of political economy, respectively - #Marx #Capital #SheldonWolin #PoliticalEconomy #CriticalTheory #PoliticalTheory #PoliticalPhilosophy