Description

Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future
Insurrection, Movement, Commons
Werner Bonefeld, Editor

Following on the prior anthology Revolutionary Writing, this
volume of essays in and about contemporary radical political
theory is organized in three main parts.

The first section centers on current debates about the concept of
Primitive Accumulation, with contributions by the Midnight Notes Collective, Massimo De Angelis, Werner Bonefeld, Paul Zarembka and Mariarosa Dalla Costa.

The middle section examines aspects of subversion in everyday life, with essays by Stevphen Shukaitis, the Leeds May Day Group, Harry Cleaver, and Sergio Tischler.

The concluding section has case studies in national contexts —
the United States, Mexico and Argentina — from George Caffentzis, Patrick Cunninghame, and Ana Cecelia Dinerstein, and a final essay by Nick Dyer-Witheford on the concept of ‘The Multitude.’

Table of Contents

Introduction

Subverting the Present, Imagining the Future:
Insurrection, Movement, & Commons
Werner Bonefeld ………………………………………………………….. 7

Part I
Primitive Accumulation:
A Debate on History, Social Constitution & Struggle

1. The New Enclosures
Midnight Notes Collective ………………………………………….. 13

2. Marx and Primitive Accumulation:
The Continuous Character of Capital’s “Enclosures”
Massimo De Angelis …………………………………………………… 27

3. The Permanence of Primitive Accumulation:
Commodity Fetishism and Social Constitution
Werner Bonefeld ………………………………………………………… 51

4. Primitive Accumulation in Marxism. Historical or Trans-historical
Separation from Means of Production?
Paul Zarembka …………………………………………………………… 67

5. History and Social Constitution:
Primitive Accumulation is not Primitive
Werner Bonefeld ………………………………………………………… 77

6. Capitalism and Reproduction
Mariarosa Dalla Costa ………………………………………………… 87

Part II
Subversion in Everyday Life:
Movements, Currents & Class Struggle

7. Dancing Amidst the Flames:
Imagination and Self-Organization in a Minor Key
Stevphen Shukaitis …………………………………………………….. 99

8. Anti-Capitalist Movements
The Leeds May Day Group ………………………………………. 115

9. Deep Currents Rising:
Some Notes on the Global Challenge to Capitalism
Harry Cleaver ………………………………………………………….. 127

10. The Crisis of the Classical Canon of the Class Form
and Social Movements in Latin America
Sergio Tischler …………………………………………………………. 161

Part III
The Question of the Multitude: Argentina, Mexico, & United States

11. The War on Terrorism and the US Working Class:
From Sept. 11, 2001 to the “Si Se Puede” Insurrection of 2006
George Caffentzis …………………………………………………….. 179

12. Reinventing an/other anti-capitalism in Mexico: The Sixth
Declaration of the EZLN and the “Other Campaign”
Patrick Cuninghame …………………………………………………. 203

13. Lessons from a Journey: The Piquetero Movement in Argentina
Ana Cecelia Dinerstein ……………………………………………… 231

14. For a Compositional Analysis of the Multitude
Nick Dyer-Witheford ……………………………………………….. 247

Index ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 267