Werner Bonefeld

The Permanance of Primitive Accumulation: Commodity Fetishism and Social Constitution
Werner Bonefeld
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The Politics of Debt:
Social Discipline and Control [1]

I. Introduction

The Politics of Globalisation: Ideology and Critique

Werner Bonefeld

Introduction

What is to be Done

Werner Bonefeld

Class and Subsidiarity: On European Monetary Union

Werner Bonefeld

Preamble

The following four quotations focus the essay's argument. The Preamble concludes with a fairly conventional observation on EMU by way of summary.

Uncertainty and Social Autonomy (alternate translation)

Werner Bonefeld

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Amid the resurgence of anti-capitalist movements across the globe, the centenary of Lenin's What is to be Done? in 2002 has largely gone unnoticed. Leninism has fallen on hard times - and rightly so. It leaves a bitter taste of a revolution which heroic struggle turned into a nightmare. The indifference to Leninism is understandable.

Social Form, Critique and Human Dignity

Werner Bonefeld

I Kant's definition of the Enlightenment as humanity's exodus from self-imposed immaturity still possesses subversive cunning. Not only does he speak about self-imposed immaturity, that is Man made immaturity, he also espouses the human being as a subject that possesses the ability to leave behind the perverted world it itself has created.(1)

Capital, Labour and Primitive Accumulation

Werner Bonefeld

Marx died over his chapter on class in volume III of Capital. The analysis of capitalism is with necessity a class analysis (Ritsert, 1988) and generations of Marxists have sought to supply the Marxist 'definition' of class. I use the term 'definition' here with critical intent. How might it be possible to define 'class' within a critical project which emphasises that theoretical mysteries find their rational explanation in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice (cf. Marx, 1975, p. 5)? The 'definition' of the working class would require at least one additional definition, namely that of capital representing the other side of the class divide. Marx's critique of political economy showed that definitions of capital are self-contradictory and tautological. Might definitions of the working class not suffer a similar fate?

On Fascism: A Note on Johannes Agnoli's Contribution
Werner Bonefeld

Preface

Publications on Fascism are many. Agnoli's recent book Fascism without Revision does not add just another publication. His theoretical focus and political perspective are specific. Although quite unknown in the English-speaking world, Agnoli has been and remains one of the most intriguing and respected Marxist scholars on the continent. (1)

Uncertainty and Social Autonomy

Werner Bonefeld

I

Against War and the Preconditions of War

Werner Bonefeld