Monthly Archives: October 2011

In part 1 I attempted to give a sketch of Robert Brenner’s thesis on the origins of Capitalism. As Rodney Hilton himself does in his introduction to “The Brenner Debate”, I should have noted that this debate “might be regarded … Continue reading →

Louis Proyect deserves credit for focusing time on the works of Robert Brenner (some of which form a unique thesis of the origins of capitalism) as well as running a useful Marxism mailing list and maintaining an active blog. In … Continue reading →

spent the past two days collecting organic vegetable donations from different NYC Community Supported Agriculture  groups. Tonight a number of us will cook all this food into a scrumptious concoction and deliver it to the hungry troops. See you there!

Because Occupy Wall Street is obviously heating up, and events like this are becoming more common, where drafts of potential horizons will be discussed along with responses and more responses (there are probably more responses elsewhere) — I wanted to … Continue reading →

In “Crisis of the Planner State”, Negri attempts a definition of the radically changing dynamic of capitalist economic transition in Italy in the late 1960s-1970s. This definition interlocks two paths, one theoretical, the other historical. The theoretical path begins with … Continue reading →

“…and the creek was an untrustworthy fellow traveler. One day it would be a gentle rustic beauty smiling shyly at admiring fishermen; the next day–thanks to one of the heavy rainstorms characteristic of the Catskills–it might become an angry giant … Continue reading →