Historical Materialism New York City
*Note: The audio footage for presentations by Alberto Toscano and Matteo Mandarini are unfortunately not included here due to very poor quality recordings.
“Militant Subjects and Organizational Form” / Matteo Mandarini
“Is There Revolution Without Reform? : Of Transitional Programmes and Intransitive Politics” / Alberto Toscano
“Die Organisationsfrage as regulative idea?” / Peter Thomas
Discussion
Chair / John Boy
“Marx on Colonialism and Race: A 21st Century View” / Kevin Anderson
Discussant / Alex Callinicos
Discussant / Nagesh Rao
Discussion
Chair: Arya Zahedi
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
Introductory remarks / Lise Vogel
Capitalism AND Patriarchy / Nancy Holmstrom
The Production of Labor-Power: Gender, the Family and a Missing Dimension of Marx’s Capital / David McNally
Capitalist crises and race critical materialist Black feminism / Rose Brewer
Discussion
“Revolution and the Art of Writing: Strauss after Marx after Strauss” / William Clare Roberts
“Capitalist Crisis and Authoritarian Liberal- ism: on Ordoliberalism and the Strong State” / Werner Bonefeld
“What is Soviet Power? Direct Democracy and the State in Leninâs 1917 Writings” / Zhivka Valiavicharska
Discussion
Chair: Kristin Li
“The Gendered Relations of Carceral Capitalism” / Genevieve LeBaron and Adrienne Roberts
“Revisiting State and Capital: The State as (the) Police” / Guillermina Seri
“Waged Debt- Peonage: Mortgage Debt, Deproletarianization and the United States, 1970s through Today” / Justin Myers
Discussion
“The Myth of Demonetarization of Gold” / Jean-Guy Loranger
“World Money, Public Deficits, and the Future of the Dollar” / Karl Beitel
“World Money and the Dollar after Gold” / David McNally
Discussant / Doug Henwood
Discussion
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
Discussion
Financial Crisis in the US
Financialization: The Appropriations of Finance and the Restructuring of American Capitalism in Our time / William Tabb
Housing Provision and Financialization / Mary Robertson
Recentering the Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis: The Past and Future of US Racial Inequality / Gary Dymski
Discussion
Queering Marxist Gender Theory Capitalism
On The Woman Question
/ Emma Heaney
Queer Nations in the Imperialist Heartland
/ Alan Sears
Gender Performativity and Capital Performativity
/ Cinzia Arruzza
Discussant / Kevin Floyd
Book Panel: The American Road to Capitalism
Charles Post
Vivek Chibber
Chair / John Clegg