Literary Review for Dissertational Requirements (original) (raw)

What I would like to explore in this survey of concepts are a few principle themes which will be employed in the dissertation. The necessity of speaking in an economic idiom was created by the need to be able to effectively link some of the key concerns which were sought to be raised there. Here however I would like to speak at greater ease about how some of these keys have been fashioned. So allow me to begin by apologising for having spoken of the 'employment' of principle themes via a survey of concepts. This was a loose description and it is no more possible for me to truly 'employ' themes in writing as it is for words to become a repository of material value in themselves. There is a tendency today for some of our academic work to be reportive of the concerns of the world, of the fall of markets, of terrorist attacks, of xenophobic cultural nationalisms, patriarchy, poverty, communalism and the sufferings of people in a multiplicity of situations and their struggles through them. The plight of people and our relation to them must effectively constitute a basic and commonly agreed upon ethical minimum. Particularly in times where the fall of the global market in the midst of the election of the BJP led government on whom many were counting on as an impetus to industry and growth. This plight, in the form of its reporting is occasionally in the danger of serving purely per formative functions, in response to another line of argument hence becoming reactionary. I'm certain you may have come across television news debates where oppositional party spokesmen mud sling with incidents of malpractices traded in ascertaining who speaks from whatever notion of the higher ground which emerges from such a process. What I am more interested in however is the productive capacity of philosophy, its immense and rich history of being able to engender a dialogue which furthers a conversation. A constructivism which appears in the work of Gilles Deleuze for example and as I shall attempt to argue, is entailed in the very word 'comrade'. This being the step down genealogy. The word 'comrade' derives from Iberian Romance languages and can mean friend, mate, colleague or ally. A political use of this term as a form of address grew after the French Revolution upon the abolishment of the titles of the nobility such as "monsieur" and "madame". The political form of addressal however also entails, the meaning of collective work. I attempted to explain this in some detail in the dissertation proposal by elaborating how Karl Marx and Adam Smith differ in their conception of exchange value. Briefly, production can only be a social process-Marx acknowledges this and hence thinks of value as socially determined labour time or the duration required by collective labour power to produce a marketable commodity. Adam Smith on the other hand conceives of exchange value as value already in the ownership of someone and the potential value which it may be traded for. A 'comrade' is hence is someone who you work with, in whichever way and to what ends perhaps only you can decide. Here, I think it is important that we clarify what is meant by work. This is significant in an age where the casualness displayed in the appreciation of human labour can be unbearably

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