Off hand "capitalism is a mode of power" seems a trivial tautology, irrelevant to the understanding of capital. Where does that "power' come from? What is the ground of any power capital or capitalists have?
Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Nitzan Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 10:20 PM To: undisclosed-recipients: Subject: [Pen-l] Rethinking Capital: C.S. Soong interviews Jonathan Nitzan on KPFA 94.1 "Rethinking Capital" C.S. Soong interviews Jonathan Nitzan June 11 and 13, 2012 Against The Grain, KPFA 94.1 FROM THE PROGRAM PAGE: "If capital accumulation is the single most important process of capitalism, then what is capital? We all might assume capital is an economic entity rooted in production and consumption, but Jonathan Nitzan claims otherwise. In Part One of the interview he argues that capital is, instead, a mode of power. He also describes the separation of economics from politics and the bifurcation of the economy into the real and nominal spheres. In Part Two, Nitzan brings up corporate profit-taking, the sabotage by capitalists of industry, and conflicts over energy. He also contends that the concept of the economy as a distinct, objective category needs to be discarded." Part One: 52 minutes Part Two: 32 minutes THE INTERVIEW: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/335/ *** Recent additions and updates to the Bichler & Nitzan Archives: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/perl/latest Free to repost and circulate with due attribution under the Creative Commons License (attribution-noncommercial-no derivative). To unsubscribe, reply to this email with "unsubscribe" in the subject field. -- Jonathan Nitzan Political Science | Social and Political Thought York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario, M3J-1P3 Canada Voice: (416) 736-2100, ext. 88822 Fax: (416) 736-5686 Email: nitzan at yorku.ca Website:http://bnarchives.net Discussion Forum:http://www.yorku.ca/cmass/forum/ _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
