Historical Materialism New York City
Book panel on Charles Post’s “The American Road to Capitalism,” published in 2011 as part of the Historical Materialism book series.
Discussant 2 / Vivek Chibber
*Note: the audio file for Vivek Chibber’s presentation was unfortunately recorded with extremely poor quality and was therefore unfit for uploading.
Chair: John Clegg
Panel discussion on subsumption and social reproduction under capitalism. Includes presentations by Aaron Benanav and Maya Gonzalez (Programmatism, A History), Matt Huber (The Real Subsumption of LIfe Under Capitalism: Energy, Machines and Every Day Life), Marcel Stoetzler (…the Revolution that will End Capitalism might fail to usher in communism, and what this means for our strategic priorities). Discussion chaired by John Boy.
“Programmatism, A History” / Aaron Benanav and Maya Gonzalez
“The Real Subsumption of LIfe Under Capitalism: Energy, Machines and Every Day Life” / Matt Huber
“…the Revolution that will End Capitalism might fail to usher in communism, and what this means for our strategic priorities” / Marcel Stoetzler
Discussion
Chair: John Boy
Panel on the informal Indian economy, featuring presentations by Deepankar Basu (Growth, Distribution and Maoist movement in contemporary India) and Snehashish Bhattacharya (Non/Capital and Class: The Informal Economy in India), with discussion chaired by Francesca Manning.
Growth, Distribution and Maoist movement in contemporary India / Deepankar Basu
Non/Capital and Class: The Informal Economy in India / Snehashish Bhattacharya