On Paul Mason's 'Post-Capitalism' – Part 3: The Non-Stalled Kondratiev Wave (original) (raw)

The Capitalist Cycle by Pavel Maksakovsky

Science &amp Society

This work is another example of those highly original early Soviet contributions of the 1920s. Maksakovsky is an exemplary political and theoretical 'child' of the October Revolution. He participated in political work before and during the Revolution, fought with the Red Army and subsequently taught in various institutions.

KATERINA KOLOZOVA Philosophy as capitalism and the socialist radically metaphysical response to it

Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics, 2017

The author starts from the thesis that there is no such thing as a "natural" or "apolitical" economy. The economy is always already political, as it is the economy's material core of power, control, and its main mechanisms, i.e. exploitation and oppression. It is no less so in the era of neoliberalism, a time in which we witness the divorce between capitalism and democracy. In order to lay the foundations of a different economy, one that is not based on wage labor and the exploitation of human life and nature based on their auto-alienation, but rather on action in accordance with their resources, we need – according the author – to rethink the concept of the state in a non-philosophical and post-capitalist fashion, structurally different from the modern bourgeois state. If the structure originating in the bourgeois state, as conceived by modern humanism, is preserved, it will mean that the determination in the last instance is still the same. In order to arrive at a determination in the last instance of a non-exploitative, non-wage-labor-based social order where the determination is affected by the real, we must first arrive at the generic core of the notion of the modern state. As soon as we determine the generic term of "the state," we can radicalize it by letting it be determined by the effects of the real. The generic notion, isolated from the chôra of the transcendental material that is offered by modern philosophies originating in the Enlightenment, should be used as the minimal transcendental description for the determining effect (or "symptom") of the real. 1. The neoliberal state is no weak and naturalness of capitalism if a philosophical phantasm The organization of social production beyond the principle of private property qua property based on wage labor needs to be conceived in terms of a given historical and material context. There is no single form of commonality, beyond historical context and the real conditions that it generates. Any form of commonality that transcends the praxis of historically determined conditioning circumstances are an abstraction, and idea hovering independently from the material universe. In the first decade of the 21 st century, we possess active