tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post4627323543774949603..comments2023-12-22T08:44:24.389-05:00Comments on threewayfight: Loren Goldner on international capitalism: three articlesMatthew N Lyonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664330735255207352noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post-9925448105770984212009-02-01T02:58:00.000-05:002009-02-01T02:58:00.000-05:00On my comment on the website, "Radical Perspective...On my comment on the website, "Radical Perspectives on the Crisis," (http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/): Rick Kuhn works in Australia, not New Zealand.<BR/><BR/>The website makes this declaration on "The things we generally agree upon": <BR/><BR/>"WE ARE:<BR/>critical of the standard economistic perspective that structures the way people usually talk about what is happening, what will happen, and what should happen. We also generally disagree with "liberal" and "democratic" perspectives, because they tend to take certain deep assumptions of the economist for granted. Although some of us may be "marxists" or "communists", we hate the (insert most embarrassing marxist and communist group names) as much as you do. Many of us also care about certain values one might call "anarchist", such as mutual aid and self-organization.<BR/><BR/>"WE CARE FOR:<BR/>critical analysis of the global economy, direct action, revolution.<BR/><BR/>"WE THINK:<BR/>this crisis is not isolated, but part of something bigger that has an internal logic we need to understand."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post-6024059451585174892009-02-01T01:44:00.000-05:002009-02-01T01:44:00.000-05:00There's a new website, "Radical Perspectives on th...There's a new website, "Radical Perspectives on the Crisis," http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/, which is providing a survey of recent articles, news commentary, interviews, etc from diverse left perspectives, and includes articles by people such as Goldner, Wallerstein, the Monthly Review group, Midnight Notes, Wildcat (a German collective), some of the Italians, Naomi Klein. <BR/><BR/>One that I've briefly scanned and looks like it might be an "autonomist" analysis is by "Free Association," which references the protests in Greece; http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/finance-crisis/on-the-crisis-of-finance-and-financialisation/freeassociationspeculatingonthecrisis. The theory might be bad, but the graffiti and slogans from Greece, I like, eg., from a university occupation in Athens: "'Tomorrow dawns a day when nothing is certain. And what could be more liberating than this after so many long years of certainty? A bullet was able to interrupt the brutal sequence all those identical days!'" <BR/><BR/>There's a piece by Rick Kuhn, a New Zealand academic, whose been reviving Henryk Grossman's theory of capitalist collapse, based in Grossman's interpretation of Marx's theory of the falling rate of profit. (Kuhn's been arguing that Grossman's position was much more sophisticated than its been portrayed by his many marxist critics.) <BR/><BR/>There's an international survey of how labor unions are responding, http://sites.google.com/site/radicalperspectivesonthecrisis/news/worldslaborfederationsreacttofinancialcrisiswithproposalsfromre-regulationtosocialismbydanlabotz.<BR/><BR/>If you want to know about various reformist proposals being trotted out, like "democratic control over investment," there's some of those.<BR/><BR/>Even if a person doesn't like any of the perspectives presented, it will at least give an idea of how bad the Left is.<BR/><BR/>I think the Hamerquist piece recently posted here deserves a slot on this site. (I'm still trying to work thru the H. statement.) <BR/><BR/>Nick ParetskyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post-53401197794674675692009-01-20T15:51:00.000-05:002009-01-20T15:51:00.000-05:00Loren Goldner says that he is a writer and activis...Loren Goldner says that he is a writer and activist, not a "scholar" (as I wrote in the original version of this post). Sorry Loren!Matthew N Lyonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15664330735255207352noreply@blogger.com