tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post5910018751220408587..comments2023-12-22T08:44:24.389-05:00Comments on threewayfight: Notes on Loren Goldner's "Fictitious Capital for Beginners"Matthew N Lyonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15664330735255207352noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13622622.post-30416993251435244222008-10-27T07:04:00.000-04:002008-10-27T07:04:00.000-04:00I've been interested in Goldner's writings...I've been interested in Goldner's writings too, not just on the crisis but also on postmodernism & deconstruction. (His article on "New Age Fascism" is also interesting.) But he made a brief, dismissive comment in one of his essays about certain militants from the '60s and early '70s being "demented" which I took exception to ("Ontological 'Difference" and the Neoliberal War on the Social").<BR/><BR/>Some of his crisis analysis is consistent with a secular crisis perspective, like in "150 Years After the Communist Manifesto," and "Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism." In the latter essay, for instance:<BR/><BR/>"has capitalism exhausted itself as a mode of production capable of expanding the material reproduction of humanity? Has capital, in Marx’s formulation, become an obstacle to itself?…<BR/>The fundamental question is: does this post-1973 reality express the “fact” that the socially necessary time of reproduction on a global scale can no longer serve as the “numeraire”, the universal standard of exchange? Can global reproduction still be expanded in the value form? Or has global society become too productive to be contained within it? Capital since 1973 seems to be trying to recompose the relationship between surplus-value, variable and constant capital into the foundations for a new expansion, but its main result, on the global scale of social reproduction, seems to be more large-scale destruction than expansion."<BR/><BR/>Goldner also has some links to other interesting websites, such as the German collective, Wildcat, and some French group called Troploin.<BR/><BR/>Nick ParetskyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com