New perspectives on Rosa Luxemburg’s concept of the transition to socialism

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110441
Author(s):  
Peter Hudis
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
World Market ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Secondary Literature ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Ongoing Project ◽  
Developing Society ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

The ongoing project to issue the Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, which will make all of her writings available in English translation, provides a critical lens to re-evaluate aspects of Luxemburg’s theoretical contribution that has often been passed over in much of the secondary literature on her. Of foremost importance in this regard is the distinctive contribution that she made to the understanding of how to achieve a transition to socialism in a developing society that remains surrounded by the capitalist world market and imperialist powers. This paper aims to show that her reflections during and after the 1905 Revolution, especially as reflected in a series of rarely studied articles and essays in the Polish revolutionary press, provides an important corrective to how the transition to socialism was understood by other Marxist currents.

Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Bou Ali
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
World Market ◽  
Philosophical Question ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Modern Arabic ◽  
Sense Of Home

Why did modern Arabic grammarians fall in love with language again? Rather than raise the philological question of origins, the love of language poses a philosophical question: why is there language rather than nothing? Language does not provide a resolute sense of home; rather it is a love-object that allows the rejection of tradition. This love arises at the moment when the Arab world is integrated into the capitalist world market and traditional symbolic functions collapse, calling into question the relation between words and things. The problems of language speak for a subject of the unconscious, divided by language, desire, and enjoyment.

Primitivism and Philo-primitivism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Etherington
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
World System ◽  
John Dryden ◽  
Robert Louis Stevenson ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

Chapter 2 advances the historical side of the argument by drawing a distinction between “philo-primitivism” and “emphatic primitivism.” It finds that the philo-primitivist ideal of the “noble savage” was the product of earlier periods of European colonial expansion when there yet existed social worlds beyond the perimeter of the capitalist world-system. As the “primitive accumulation” of noncapitalist societies accelerated, so the ideal of the primitive became entirely speculative and utopian. Emphatic primitivism’s emergence coincides with the period that political economists at the time labeled “Imperialism,” a concept explored with reference to the work of Rosa Luxemburg in particular. The chapter ends with a discussion of the notion prevalent at this time that the “primitive” was in fact the product of “civilized” sublimation. Other writers and artists discussed include John Dryden, George Catlin, Charles Darwin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Robert Louis Stevenson, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.

On Maoist Conceptualizations of the Capitalist World System

1979 ◽  
Vol 80 ◽  
pp. 806-837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Systems Approach ◽  
World System ◽  
State Power ◽  
World Market ◽  
Market Force ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Nation States ◽  
The World ◽  
Capitalist World

One of the less emphasized strengths of a world systems approach to national societies is its critical comprehension of the limited possibilities of ruling groups transforming their societies into ones of socialist relations. One limit placed on the part by the whole, on nation states by a capitalist world market, is the impossibility of building “true” socialism. The imperatives of the world market force state power-holders to act in a capitalist manner, that is, to organize their society for competition in world exchange.

Obstacles to a world state in the shadow of the world market

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Jessop
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
World Market ◽  
Niklas Luhmann ◽  
World State ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Ecological Dominance

This article explores the obstacles to the development and operation of a world state that are rooted in functional differentiation of modern societies, the ecological dominance of the broadly capitalist world market, and the inherent tendencies of all forms of governance to fail. It also highlights the challenges to the temporal as well as territorial sovereignty of states, whatever their scale of operation, due to the acceleration as well as globalization of social relations. Combining insights from Niklas Luhmann and Karl Marx, the article develops some novel arguments about multi-spatial metagovernance as an alternative approach to the problems posed by a world state as the guarantor of global social order.

scholarly journals Deglobalization, Globalization, and the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 202-230
Author(s):  
Alexandre Abdal ◽  
Douglas M. Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Market ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Middle Term ◽  
Capitalist World Economy ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The One

This article is a theory piece focused on causal propositions codification and future trends identification, both supported by descriptive statistical data. It aims to analyze the middle-term dynamics of globalization and deglobalization due to the effects of the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis, in general, and the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular. The broader context in which such dynamics are situated are the processes of capitalist world-economy restructuring, propitiated by the crisis the U.S. hegemony, on the one hand, and by the Chinese rise, on the other. We argue that the COVID-19 pandemic tends to deepen and accelerate ongoing processes of global fragmentation, especially in the productive and commercial dimensions. From the point of view of governments, in particular the United States, there are growing protectionist and manufacturing repatriation efforts. From the point of view of large corporations, the perception of risk derived from the suspension and rupture of global production chains emerges thanks to measures to prevent infection. Somehow, governments and companies can converge on understanding the world market as a growing source of risk and decreasing advantages. The counterpoint here may be China's interest and ability to lead the fight against the pandemic and post-pandemic recovery, restructuring the global order built in the last forty years in new institutional basis and from which it has been the main beneficiary.

scholarly journals Karl Marx

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 729-741
Author(s):  
Rosa Luxemburg
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Social Democratic Party ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Social ◽  
German Original ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

Marx died on March 14, 1883. Exactly twenty years later, on March 14, 1903, Rosa Luxemburg’s reflections on Karl Marx were published in German in Vorwärts, the newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. tripleC publishes an English translation of Luxemburg’s essay on the occasion of Marx’s bicentenary. Christian Fuchs’ postface “Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg” asks the question of how we can make sense of Rosa Luxemburg’s reading of Marx in 2018. Source of the German original: Luxemburg, Rosa. 1903. Karl Marx. Vorwärts 62: 1-2.

The imperial conquest and reordering of the production, processing, distribution and consumption of food: a theoretical contribution

2009 ◽  
pp. 48-62
Author(s):  
Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Products ◽  
World Market ◽  
Invisible Hand ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Theory Of Value

- Empire is a new mode of ordering and governance. Food empires are monopolistic networks that control large, and expanding, parts of the production, processing, distribution and consumption of food. But food empires are not necessarily involved in the physical realities associated with these processes. Food empires control the routing and the associated transformation of agricultural and food products. In this respect food empires clearly represent an "invisible hand", a series of combined and repeated interventions into the markets that together represent "extra- economic power". Empires (and food empires particularly) do not only center on control, they simultaneously represent the appropriation and centralization of value. Due to Empire, value has, as it were, become footloose; it is increasingly becoming "a ghost".Key words: empire; imperial networks; food production; world market; global exclusion; theory of value.

Marxist thought in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ofelia Schutte
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
World Market ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Sandinista Revolution ◽  
The People ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Latin American And Caribbean ◽  
Social Sectors

Marxism is a theory offering a critique of capitalist political economy. Marxism also views itself as an instrument or means of changing the world from a capitalist to a socialist (and/or communist), economic and political order. Given its interest in economic and political change, Marxism involves a philosophy of history which depicts the possibility of and conditions for change from a capitalist to a socialist order. Marxist intellectuals perform the dual task of analysing the failures or limitations of capitalist economic and political structures. The theory also proposes and evaluates socialist alternatives. Latin American Marxism developed out of its own historical, economic, political and cultural conditions. Influenced by Lenin’s analysis of imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism, it directed the critique of capitalist political economy towards the capitalist world market and its disadvantageous effects for the countries, particularly the impoverished classes and social sectors, of the Latin American and Caribbean regions. Latin American Marxism-Leninism argues, on political and economic grounds, that national liberation cannot be achieved without liberation from imperialism. Marxists believe that although the protagonists of history’s political projects are the workers (or if Leninist, the workers together with the peasants), in the end the interests of these groups represent the universal interests of humankind. Marxist political discourse often uses broader categories than those of ’workers’ or ’peasants’ to designate the agents of political emancipation, employing terms such as ’the people’, ’the popular sectors’ or ’the revolutionary masses’. In this way Marxism attempts to broaden its political base so as to make its goals more effective. The political discourse of the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution of 1979 exemplify this practice. There are and have been many differences among Marxists because of the different approaches to criticizing capitalism as well as the different conceptions held by those who profess a commitment to the ultimate Marxist goal of creating a nonexploitative socialist society. Representative issues in Latin American Marxism may be illustrated by focusing on three questions: the problem of orthodoxy, the socialist construction of a national identity and socialism’s relation to ethics, religion and culture. In addressing these issues, this entry draws significantly from the work of Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui, a prominent founder of Latin American Marxism.

Financial subordination and uneven financialization in 21st century Africa

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven ◽  
Kai Koddenbrock ◽  
Ndongo Samba Sylla
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
World Market ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract The financialization debate has not paid enough attention to the African continent. The continent’s populations and governments have found creative ways of dealing with the capitalist world market and political power relations since decolonization in the late 1950s. However, several forms of structural dependence and subordination persist. We ask in this article how the global process of financialization has unfolded across the continent and what it means for relations of dependence. We understand financialization as the global expansion of financial practices, and, in particular, the financial sector, that followed the end of the Bretton Woods era. We consider to what extent it has occurred at all in the four case study countries of Mauritius, Nigeria, Zambia, and South Africa. The empirical analysis of aggregate country data shows that financialization is, at best, an uneven and patchy process on the continent, not a general structural shift in the way capital accumulation is organized. Rather, where financialization occurred, it appears to have diversified the relations of dependence that states, corporations, and populations have found themselves in.

Ferdinand Oyono in Vietnamese: Translation after Socialism and Colonialism

PMLA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 128 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-169
Author(s):  
Ben Tran
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Republic ◽  
World Market ◽  
The South ◽  
Market Socialism ◽  
Ferdinand Oyono ◽  
The North ◽  
Socialist Government ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Indochina War

Of the fourteen translations of Ferdinand Oyono's une vie de boy published to date, the Vietnamese translation, Đới Làm bồi, dates last, despite Vietnam and Cameroon's shared past under French colonialism. Nguyễn Như đat, the novel's Vietnamese translator, had anticipated that his version, published in 1997, would not find much of a market. The translator's pessimism was warranted, since the Vietnam of the late 1990s drastically differed from the two Vietnams of 1956, when Oyono's novel was originally published. Partitioned after the 1954 Geneva Accords and fighting against each other in the Second Indochina War, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the north and the Republic of Vietnam in the south were unified at the war's end, in 1975, under a socialist government. But since 1986 Vietnam has been engaged in the capitalist world market, albeit under the banner of socialism. Given this context of market socialism, the Vietnamese translation of Oyono's anticolonial novel seems to have lagged temporally: it was published at a time when literary translations in Vietnam began trending away from anticolonialism and toward, for example, Raymond Carver's minimalism, Haruki Murakami's surreal handling of alienation, and, more recently, Vladimir Nabokov's perversely defamiliarizing style.

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