It may be a tautology but not necessarily trivial. The thing is don't judge it "off hand".
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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