Harry Cleaver
Cleaver, Harry
American autonomist Marxist and lecturer at the University of Texas and contemporary of Antonio Negri.
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism
This paper was written for and presented to the Conference on Pyotr Alexeevich Kropotkin organized by the Russian Academy of Science on the 150th anniversary of his birth.
The conference was held in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Dimitrov on December 8 - 14, 1992. It was the first such conference to be held on Russian soil since the Revolution in 1917.
by Harry Cleaver
Associate Professor of Economics
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
Kropotkin, Self-valorization And The Crisis Of Marxism Options
On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It - Harry Cleaver
“On Schoolwork and the Struggle Against It” is an article about the organisation of and resistance to the contemporary capitalist university by Harry Cleaver, a relatively well known autonomist Marxist and professor of economics at the University of Texas in Austin.
He wrote the essay as part of a response to the critique of his book Reading Capital Politically in the article “From operaismo to ‘autonomist Marxism’” in the 2002 edition of the British communist journal Aufheben.
Harry Cleaver has a website containing a large number of his interesting articles at:
The Chiapas Uprising and the Future of Class Struggle in the New World Order
Autonomist Marxist, Harry Cleaver, analyses the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas and its relevence to class struggle in the era of globalisation.
INTRODUCTORY NOTE: This article was written for the Italian journal RIFF-RAFF published in Padova, Italy. Revised versions have also been published in STUDIES IN POLITICAL ECONOMY and in CANADIAN DIMENSION. THE CHIAPAS UPRISING AND THE FUTURE OF CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER by Harry Cleaver, University of Texas at Austin hmcleave@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
The Zapatistas and the International Circulation of Struggle - Lessons Suggested and Problems Raised
A variation of this Paper, originally prepared for the conference on "Globalization from Below" at Duke in February 1998, presented to the INET'98 Conference in Geneva in July 1998.
For a long, long time many activists have recognized two things: first, that capitalism operates on a global level and second, that to achieve enough power to overthrow capitalism the working class must find ways to organize its own struggles at the same level.
Response to Sergio Fiedler's Attack on Autonomous Marxism
"This is an article published in the last Green Left Weekly run by the Democratic Socialist Party (leninist, ex-trotsquists) in Sydney Australia. Love & Rage has directed me to write a response, but if comrades from this lists want to write their own it would be a fantastic contribution to the political education of our group. Most of the criticism are directed to Harry Cleaver, so it would really good for us to have a few words from him. Thanks." - Sergio Fiedler
Karl Marx: Economist or Revolutionary?
Harry Cleaver's analysis of Marx's work as more than mere economics but as a revolutionary tool for the working class.
During the last ten years Marxism has come to occupy a substantial position within American academia.(1) This is especially true in economics where, until recently, discussion of Marx and the Marxist tradition was largely confined to courses in the history of economic thought and in the economic history of the Soviet Union.(2)
The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle *DRAFT*
What follows is a DRAFT of a chapter of a book on the Zapatistas and revolution at the beginning of the XXIst Century. The book, edited by John Holloway in Mexico City, will consist of a collection of new articles, mostly from Mexican scholars and political analysts. This essay should be quoted only with permission from the author.
The Zapatistas And The Electronic Fabric Of Struggle(*)
An Interview with Harry Cleaver
Interview with American autonomist Marxist, Harry Cleaver.
A prominent American autonomist, Harry Cleaver lives in Austin, Texas, where he is active in Accion Zapatista. A range of his writings can be found on the Internet at ht tp://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/index2.html. This interview was recorded in London during July 1993 by Massimo De Angelis. It first appeared in Italian in the autonomist journal vis-a-vis 1 (Autumn 1993).
The Inversion of Class Perspective in Marxian Theory: From Valorization to Self-valorization
An article on contemporary Marxism by US academic Harry Cleaver.
In PDF Format.
Introduction to Antonio Negri's Marx beyond Marx
Harry Cleaver's beautifully written introduction to Antonio Negri's autonomist classic, Marx Beyond Marx.
Nature, Neoliberalism and Sustainable Development: Between Charybdis and Scylla
Harry Cleaver's paper on the effects of capitalist development on the environment.
This paper was prepared for the 4th Ecology Meeting on "Economy and Ecology" held by the Instituto Piaget, Viseu, Portugal, April 17-19, 1997.
NATURE, NEOLIBERALISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: BETWEEN CHARYBDIS & SCYLLA?*
Reading Capital Politically - Harry Cleaver
Harry Cleaver's seminal work on forming a practical, political interpretation of Marx's Capital.
Rebellion from the Roots: A Review
Harry Cleaver's review of John Ross' book on the Zapatistas, Rebellion from the Roots.
Ross' book is a fairly lengthy but quite readable and sympathetic account of the Zapatista uprising from Jan. 1, 1994 until the conclusion of the Mexican elections on Aug. 21, 1994. It is a journalistic account, not a scholarly one. There are no footnotes and few references.
The Subversion of Money-as-Command in the Current Crisis
INTRODUCTORY NOTE: This paper was written for and prsented to the Conference on Money and the State at FLACSO, Mexico City, Mexico, July 14-17, 1992. The Conference was organized by John Holloway and brought together a number of people from Mexico, the United States and Europe to discuss theoretico-political issues of money in the crisis. Several of the papers presented to that conference (including this one) were subsequently published as Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway (eds) GLOBAL CAPITAL, NATIONAL STATE AND THE POLITICS OF MONEY, London: St. Martin's Press, 1995. The following article, with the same title, appears on pp. 141-177 of that book.
THE SUBVERSION OF MONEY-AS-COMMAND IN THE CURRENT CRISIS
by Harry Cleaver Associate Professor of Economics University of Texas Austin, Texas
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Supply Side Economics: The New Phase of Capitalist Strategy in the Crisis
Cleaver's analysis of the development of New Right economic theory in the early 1980s with the idea of not merely criticising it, but of reading "it as the battle plans of the enemy in the class war".
This paper was written for the pilot issue of the French journal BABYLONE which was published in the Fall of 1981. It was translated and published in METROPOLI (Rome) and EL GALLO ILLUSTRADO (Mexico City) the same year.
SUPPLY SIDE ECONOMICS: THE NEW PHASE OF CAPITALIST STRATEGY IN THE CRISIS
by Harry Cleaver Assistant Professor of Economics University of Texas at Austin
Texas Archives of Autonomous Marxism
A Hundred Flowers. . . (typescript) English translation from La Operaie della Casa, May 1977. (8pp)
"A Week of Action on Italy: Oct./Nov. 1980," (London). (2pp)
Acha, Jorge Arévalo, "Mas del Alto Piura," El Gallo Illustrado, # 1348, 24 de Abril de 1988, pp. 13-15. (3 lpp)
Theses on Secular Crisis in Capitalism
Harry Cleaver's contribution to a critique on both the invincibility of capitalism after the fall of the Soviet Union and the ability of traditional Marxist theory to explain capital's continuing vulnerability.
This is a reworked set of notes presented to the session on "Secular Crisis in Capitalism: Attempts at Theorization" at the Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst Massachusetts, November 13, 1992. This text will be published in a forthcoming collection edited by Chronis Polychroniou called MARXISM AFTER THE FALL OF COMMUNISM.
Thesis 1: We are in the midst of secular crisis.
The uses of an earthquake - Harry Cleaver
When earthquakes, floods, droughts and volcanic eruptions strike where we live, they are usually considered instances of crisis and unmitigated natural disaster. Yet, recently I have had opportunities to witness how the meaning of crisis depends entirely on one's point of view.
The opportunities have come during two visits to Mexico City. The first visit was a month or so after the major earthquake of 1985 that brought widely reported death and destruction. The second was a follow-up visit seven months later.
