Johnson-Forest City

After a year of reading and discussion I'm happy to share: C.L.R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency Discussion Guide! We dug through many JFT readings & scanned new documents to highlight underappreciated figures from the JFT. Check it out! counselingcommunism.com/jft/

@Permanentkritik Ruth Wilson Gilmore has used that term for a long time too..

Cooper and toscano are obviously smarter than me but I think there is something off about the notions of the anti-state state or anti-social state ……

The Sabbath and top metal acts at Villa Park is a good idea, but with there being no priest, napalm death, carcass, cathedral on the lineup (a crime against Birmingham!) maybe an alt-origins of metal at either birmingham city or west brom ground?

From Sam Chambers, Capitalist Economics.

What Jeff Bezos doesn't want people to know: There is no genuine (open and competitive) market for labor. cc @PostGuild

Democracy dies in broad daylight

really cool interview with jay bernstein on the marxism of gillian rose journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

While the German election results are grim overall, the stunning performance of Die Linke should be a stark lesson for the Western left more broadly: the path lies with full throated, unabashed emancipation on all fronts, not trying to triangulate into a right lite

Woke never dies

For @BostonReview on February 20 I'll be moderating a virtual event with @BrentCebul, @LGeismer, @dygottlieb, Nicole Hemmer (@pastpunditry), and @dl_wiggins on their new volume MASTERY AND DRIFT: PROFESSIONAL-CLASS LIBERALS SINCE THE 1960s. Register here: secure.givelively.org/event/boston-c…

@Permanentkritik Thanks. It's all good. I've read mostly Open Marxists, Heinrich and Sam Chambers. I'll dig more into Frankfurt School and Adorno lectures since Holloway etc follow them.

@eatrighteous Sorry i cant be more accomodating

Did Adorno accept Marx's value theory?

@Permanentkritik Society. How we all do it.

@eatrighteous Just within ‘the economy’ or capitalist society more generally?

@outsidadgitator @sorenmau Not socially necessary labor time or labor time exchanged but volunteer labor time.

who has written something good about the potential uses of digital technologies in a post-capitalist world, from a perspective that is critical of FALC/accelerationism-style tech-optimism yet also does not reject that digital technologies might come in handy under communism?

@Permanentkritik Basically, Rose claims Adorno is focused on reification in culture and I'm interested more in the power of it in capitalist society at large...

@Permanentkritik Reification as how thingification or commodity fetishism becomes socially reproduced. Moreso the latter though I feel like assuming domination is slippery?

@outsidadgitator @sorenmau Some issues that have been raised are it relies on volunteerism and the example of electricity is good because needs are straightforward but gets a lot more complicated in other sectors. It also still relies on labor time...

@outsidadgitator @sorenmau Came here to post the same. Nardelli article is good.

@Permanentkritik I'm gonna check that stuff out. I meant non Adorno on reification though

@eatrighteous But they’re all good if you prefer a less straight up social theory topic

@Permanentkritik Doesn't help Weber translations are bad too...

@Permanentkritik Muddy translations in Marx (MECW doesn't translate reification at all, while Penguin translates it twice - equating commodity fetishism with reification basically)...