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Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid
with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful
imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of
essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is
a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological
developments within capitalist production. It covers a broad range
of digital aspects now proliferating across our work and lives,
including chapters on the digitalisation of agriculture, robotics
in the factory and the labour process on crowdworking platforms. It
looks to how 20th century Marxist predictions of the 'workerless
factory' are, or are not, coming true, and how 'Platform
Capitalism' should be understood and critiqued. Through rich
empirical, theoretical and historical material, this book is
necessary reading for those wanting a clear overview of our digital
world.
Marxist discourse around automation has recently become waylaid
with breathless techno-pessimist dystopias and fanciful
imaginations of automated luxury communism. This collection of
essays by both established veterans of the field and new voices is
a refreshingly sober materialist reflection on recent technological
developments within capitalist production. It covers a broad range
of digital aspects now proliferating across our work and lives,
including chapters on the digitalisation of agriculture, robotics
in the factory and the labour process on crowdworking platforms. It
looks to how 20th century Marxist predictions of the 'workerless
factory' are, or are not, coming true, and how 'Platform
Capitalism' should be understood and critiqued. Through rich
empirical, theoretical and historical material, this book is
necessary reading for those wanting a clear overview of our digital
world.
Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and
available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers
Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of
his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis
of Lenin's theoretical development between 1914 and 1917, in
preparation for his critical decision to dissolve the Constituent
Assembly in January 1918 in a struggle for power. This led from the
dialectics of revolutionary practice and social analysis to a new
understanding of socialism, which is compared and contrasted to the
alternative Marxist ideas and conceptions of the state posited by
Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg. Rediscovering Lenin then moves to
1921, when Lenin begins a new stage of his theoretical development
concerned with resolving the reversal of the revolution's aims and
its results. This process remains unfinished, and the questions
raised a hundred years ago remain: How can one intervene
successfully and responsibly in social and political crises? What
role do social science theories, ideological frameworks, and other
practices play in transforming the economic, political and cultural
power structures of a society? Brie concludes with a retrospective
on the ideas developed by Marx and in the Second International, and
their impact on Lenin's strategic thinking. Placing Lenin's writing
itself in the foreground and arguing from inside his own
self-learning, Rediscovering Lenin focuses on the reflective
relationship between ideology, theory, and practice.
Translated from the original German Lenin Neuentdecken and
available in English for the first time, this volume rediscovers
Lenin as a strategic socialist thinker through close examination of
his collected works and correspondence. Brie opens with an analysis
of Lenin's theoretical development between 1914 and 1917, in
preparation for his critical decision to dissolve the Constituent
Assembly in January 1918 in a struggle for power. This led from the
dialectics of revolutionary practice and social analysis to a new
understanding of socialism, which is compared and contrasted to the
alternative Marxist ideas and conceptions of the state posited by
Karl Kautsky and Rosa Luxemburg. Rediscovering Lenin then moves to
1921, when Lenin begins a new stage of his theoretical development
concerned with resolving the reversal of the revolution's aims and
its results. This process remains unfinished, and the questions
raised a hundred years ago remain: How can one intervene
successfully and responsibly in social and political crises? What
role do social science theories, ideological frameworks, and other
practices play in transforming the economic, political and cultural
power structures of a society? Brie concludes with a retrospective
on the ideas developed by Marx and in the Second International, and
their impact on Lenin's strategic thinking. Placing Lenin's writing
itself in the foreground and arguing from inside his own
self-learning, Rediscovering Lenin focuses on the reflective
relationship between ideology, theory, and practice.
For years, the critique of capitalism was lost from public
discourse; the very word "capitalism" sounded like a throwback to
another era. Nothing could be further from the truth today. In this
new intellectual atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a
contribution to the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an
empirically grounded diagnosis of society's ills. The authors,
Germany's leading critical sociologists-Klaus Doerre, Stephan
Lessenich, and Hartmut Rosa-share a conviction that ours is a
pivotal period of renewal, in which the collective endeavour of
academics can amount to an act of intellectual resistance, working
to prevent any regressive development that might return us to
neoliberal domination. The authors discuss key issues, such as
questions of accumulation and expropriation; discipline and
freedom; and the powerful new concepts of activation and
acceleration. Their politically committed sociology, which takes
the side of the losers in the current crisis, places society's
future well-being at the centre of their research. Their collective
approach to this project is a conscious effort to avoid co-optation
in the institutional practices of the academy. These three
differing but complementary perspectives serve as an insightful
introduction to the contemporary themes of radical sociology in
capitalism's post-crisis phase.
Three radical perspectives on the critique of capitalism For years,
the critique of capitalism was lost from public discourse; the very
word "capitalism" sounded like a throwback to another era. Nothing
could be further from the truth today. In this new intellectual
atmosphere, Sociology, Capitalism, Critique is a contribution to
the renewal of critical sociology, founded on an empirically
grounded diagnosis of society's ills. The authors, Germany's
leading critical sociologists - Klaus Doerre, Stephan Lessenich,
and Hartmut Rosa - share a conviction that ours is a pivotal period
of renewal, in which the collective endeavour of academics can
amount to an act of intellectual resistance, working to prevent any
regressive development that might return us to neoliberal
domination. The authors discuss key issues, such as questions of
accumulation and expropriation; discipline and freedom; and the
powerful new concepts of activation and acceleration. Their
politically committed sociology, which takes the side of the losers
in the current crisis, places society's future well-being at the
centre of their research. Their collective approach to this project
is a conscious effort to avoid co-optation in the institutional
practices of the academy. These three differing but complementary
perspectives serve as an insightful introduction to the
contemporary themes of radical sociology in capitalism's
post-crisis phase.
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