“Jean-Luc Nancy, Politics, Communism” / Jason Smith
“Marxism, the value form, and the unsurpassable contradiction of capitalism” / Alan Milchman
Discussant: Sam Han
Discussion
Chair: Ryan Lee
HMNY2011: Anti-Anti-Imperialism
Discussion of various contemporary struggles with imperialism.
“The Iranian Revolution and the Anti-Imperialist paradigm: fetters of the past, potential for the future” / Arya Zahedi
“Interwar Authoritarian and Fascist Sources of a Reactionary Ideology: The Cases of Turkish Kemalism and the Bolivian MNR” / Loren Goldner
“The Problem of Post Colonial Nationalism and Multiculturalism: Speculations on the Recuperation of the Islamic Right” / Biju Mathew
Discussant: Nagesh Rao
Discussion
HMNY2011: Apocalyptic Capitalism: Japan after the Tsunami
“What is Happening in Japan? From the Perspective of the Anti-Atomic-Capistalist Struggle” / Sabu Kohso
Wendy Matsumura
“An Invisible Warfare in Japanâfrom Disaster Capitalism to Apocalyptic Capitalism” / Go Hirasawa
Hari Harootunian
Chair: Jesse Goldstein