Сабин Жанин - Ленинские места в парижском регионе

Будучи в изгнании во Франции, Владимир Ильич Ленин два лета провёл в окрестностях Парижа, в 1909 и 1911 гг. И сегодня в этих местах можно пройтись теми же тропинками. Предлагаем вашему вниманию небольшой рассказ о том, где бывал товарищ Ленин.

https://humanite-russie.ru/2022/01/30/leninskie-mesta-v-parizhskom-regione/

Zad El Bacha - Reimagining the relationship between care and power

Feminism. Now. is a landmark book co-authored by four of America’s foremost abolitionist and feminist writers. It puts forward an argument for why feminism and the struggle to abolish prisons & police are indivisible, and how they are both linked to the struggle against racial capitalism.

rs21 member and community organiser Zad El Bacha writes about how the book reads in the context of radical politics in Britain, and the important questions it opens up about the relationship between building care and building power in our organising.

https://www.rs21.org.uk/2022/01/16/reimagining-the-relationship-between-care-and-power/

К.ф.н. Антон Бархатков рассказывает о выведении Марксом в седьмой главе «Капитала» понятий нормы прибавочной стоимости, степени эксплуатации рабочей силы, прибавочного труда и прибавочного продукта.

https://youtu.be/4D824yEKfXs

Constituent Power

Geo Maher interviews Venezuela’s former culture minister Reinaldo Iturriza.  

“The balance sheets that have so far been drafted by the left are insufficient. Too often, half-truths are repeated and concrete explanations are systematically concealed”

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/constituent-power

Lee Fang - How CNN, The New York Times, and other major media outlets monetize your data and lobby against regulations

The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible.

In a filing last week, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, a trade group, reported it was lobbying against a push at the Federal Trade Commission to restrict the collection and sale of personal data for the purpose of delivering advertisements. The IAB represents both data brokers and online media outlets that depend on digital advertising, such as CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC, Time, U.S. News and World Report, the Washington Post, Vox, the Orlando Sentinel, Fox News, and dozens of other media companies.

https://theintercept.com/2022/02/01/surveillance-data-collection-ads-news-media/

Milton Friedman's Collusion with Segregationists

Nancy MacLean, history professor at Duke University, talks about the ways in which neoliberal economic icon Milton Friedman collaborated with segregationists and with right-wing billionaires in the pursuit of his goal of privatizing public education.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wS24ntZbEt0

Byung-Chul Han - What is Power?  

Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life. Power is commonly defined as a causal relation: an individual’s power is the cause that produces a change of behaviour in someone else against the latter’s will. Han rejects this view, arguing that power is better understood as a mediation between ego and alter which creates a complex array of reciprocal interdependencies. Power can also be exercised not only against the other but also within and through the other, and this involves a much higher degree of mediation. This perspective enables us to see that power and freedom are not opposed to one another but are manifestations of the same power, differing only in the degree of mediation. This highly original account of power will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and of social, political and cultural theory, as well as to anyone seeking to understand the many ways in which power shapes our lives today.

Борис Гройс - Социальное чувство минус гравитация есть коммунизм

Текст из сборника «Граждане космоса»

Впервые новые космические права человека были провозглашены радикальным русским авангардом еще раньше — постановкой оперы-мистерии «Победа над Солнцем» (1913), в создании которой приняли участие наиболее видные представители русского авангардного движения того времени — Михаил Матюшин, Алексей Крученых, Велимир Хлебников и Казимир Малевич. В этом произведении мы находим все темы русского космизма — взятие Солнца под арест и торжество революционного анархизма над традиционным космическим порядком. Можно было бы возразить, что идея бессмертия в опере не высказывается. Но написанное Алексеем Крученых либретто начинается диалогом: «Всё хорошо, что хорошо начинается! — А кончается? — Конца не будет!» Даже если индивидуум смертен, царству анархии не будет конца. И людям (по крайней мере, пленившим Солнце «будетлянским силачам») тоже не будет конца, ведь они сделали Солнце своим вечным пленником.

https://gorky.media/fragments/sotsialnoe-chuvstvo-minus-gravitatsiya-est-kommunizm/

Is feminism a capitalist tool? или гламурный феминизм vs. феминизм жуткого в бывшем СССР

Где-то лет 15 назад, в уже таком далеком от нас 2007 году Анна Альчук с сожалением и горечью писала о непопулярности и непрестижности феминизма в России среди творческих и социально активных женщин, считающих, что участие в феминистских мероприятиях «чрезвычайно портит имидж» и может повредить их карьере. Радикальная трансформация статуса постсоветского феминизма произошла с наступлением эпохи цифрового капитализма и социальных сетей, когда обнаружилось, что лучше всего продается именно «испорченный имидж», скандал, когда, как замечает Славой Жижек, товарность обеспечивается утратой нормальности и нормативности, и чем разнообразнее и страннее товар, тем лучше для рынка. В результате сегодня мы наблюдаем в наших странах всплеск популярности феминизма именно у активных, стремящихся к успеху женщин – женщин-лидеров, которые, как недавно Ксения Собчак, наперебой объявляют себя феминистками и сторонницами гендерного равенства. Главное требование к такому типу феминистского активизма – вызывать скандал, провоцировать хейтеров, без мобилизации которых не будет достигнуто необходимое количество просмотров, лайков и фолловеров в социальных сетях, достаточное для конвертации сетевой популярности из символического в материальный капитал.

http://kcgs.net.ua/gurnal/25/gi25-ot-red.pdf

William P. Jones - How to Repair the Planet

In Reconsidering Reparations, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò makes the case for a political project with a global scope.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s new book, Reconsidering Reparations, advocates a “constructivist” view of reparations, by which he means that we should consider the future world we aim to create by repairing the damages and injustices of the past. Rather than envisioning a world in which slavery and imperialism did not exist, he urges us to acknowledge that they did and address their consequences. Táíwò’s approach departs from others in two important ways; first, whereas recent efforts have demanded reparations from national and even sub-national governments, the constructivist view is necessarily transnational and global in scope. Secondly, and perhaps most provocatively, climate justice becomes necessary and essential to the reparations agenda.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/how-to-repair-the-planet

Henry Heller - The Cold War and the New Imperialism: A Global History, 1945-2005  

The Cold War and the New Imperialism is an account of global history since 1945, which brings massive changes in global politics, economics, and society together in a single narrative, illuminating and clarifying the dilemmas of the present. Written for the general reader, it draws together scholarly research from a wide range of sources without losing sight of the larger pattern of events.

In the sixty-year period since the end of World War II, the world has indeed been remade. The war itself mobilized the political and social aspirations of hundreds of millions of people. The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union for global dominance drew every country into its field of force. Struggles for national liberation in the Third World brought an end to colonial empires. Revolutions in China, Cuba, Vietnam and elsewhere shook the global order, as did failed uprisings in Paris and Prague. Since the end of the Cold War the forces of the capitalist market have overwhelmed social institutions that have given meaning to human existence for centuries.

But the end of the Cold War has created as many problems for the world’s remaining superpower, the United States, as it has solved. With its political, economic, and financial hegemony eroding, the United States has responded with military adventures abroad and increasing inequality and authoritarianism at home. The Cold War and the New Imperialism draws all these threads together and shows vividly that the end of history is not in sight.

Jan C. Jansen, Jürgen Osterhammel, Jeremiah Riemer - Decolonization: A Short History  

The end of colonial rule in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean was one of the most important and dramatic developments of the twentieth century. In the decades after World War II, dozens of new states emerged as actors in global politics. Long-established imperial regimes collapsed, some more or less peacefully, others amid mass violence. This book takes an incisive look at decolonization and its long-term consequences, revealing it to be a coherent yet multidimensional process at the heart of modern history.

Jan Jansen and Jürgen Osterhammel trace the decline of European, American, and Japanese colonial supremacy from World War I to the 1990s. Providing a comparative perspective on the decolonization process, they shed light on its key aspects while taking into account the unique regional and imperial contexts in which it unfolded. Jansen and Osterhammel show how the seeds of decolonization were sown during the interwar period and argue that the geopolitical restructuring of the world was intrinsically connected to a sea change in the global normative order. They examine the economic repercussions of decolonization and its impact on international power structures, its consequences for envisioning world order, and the long shadow it continues to cast over new states and former colonial powers alike. Concise and authoritative, Decolonization is the essential introduction to this momentous chapter in history, the aftershocks of which are still being felt today.

Eddy Cherki, Michel Wieviorka - Autoreduction movements in Turin, 1974

To consider the new developments in social struggle within Western Europe since 1968, one must turn to Italy. The organization of the worker's movement, often on a mass scale, has assumed original forms. Urban struggles have led to organized union and political neighborhood actions with stakes tied to consumption.

From this point of view, the autoreduction movement, which began in Turin in the fall of 1974, constitutes a development of the utmost importance. Autoreduction is the act by which consumers, in the area of consumption, and workers, in the area of production, take it upon themselves to reduce, at a collectively determined level, the price of public services, housing, electricity; or in the factory, the rate of Productivity.

https://libcom.org/history/autoreduction-movements-turin-1974

Larry M. Bartels - Unequal Democracy. The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age

The first edition of Unequal Democracy was an instant classic, shattering illusions about American democracy and spurring scholarly and popular interest in the political causes and consequences of escalating economic inequality. This revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes two new chapters on the political economy of the Obama era. One presents the Great Recession as a "stress test" of the American political system by analyzing the 2008 election and the impact of Barack Obama's "New New Deal" on the economic fortunes of the rich, middle class, and poor. The other assesses the politics of inequality in the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, the 2012 election, and the partisan gridlock of Obama’s second term. Larry Bartels offers a sobering account of the barriers to change posed by partisan ideologies and the political power of the wealthy. He also provides new analyses of tax policy, partisan differences in economic performance, the struggle to raise the minimum wage, and inequalities in congressional representation.

The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy, and Language  

In The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy and Language, some of the finest Machiavellian scholars explore the Florentine's thought five hundred years after the composition of his masterpiece, The Prince. Their analysis, however, goes past The Prince, extending to Machiavelli's entire corpus and shining new light on his political, historical, and military works, with a special focus on their heritage in modern Marxist thought, the arena in which they reverberate most profoundly and originally. Rather than a neutral, comprehensive, and safe interpretation, this book offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, the 16th-century thinker who continues to divide scholars and interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society where Machiavelli's ideas and the issues they address still matter.  

Contributors are: Etienne Balibar, Banu Bargu, Jeremie Barthas, Thomas Berns, Alison Brown, Filippo Del Lucchese, Romain Descendre, Jean-Louis Fournel, Fabio Frosini, Giorgio Inglese, Mikko Lahtinen, Jacques Lezra, John P. McCormick, Warren Montag, Vittorio Morfino, Mohamed Moulfi, Gabriele Pedulla, Tania Rispoli, Peter D. Thomas, Sebastian Torres, Miguel Vatter, Stefano Visentin, Yves Winter, and Jean-Claude Zancarini.