Interest in the relationship between race and the expanded reproduction of capitalism has exploded across the social sciences and humanities over the past several years. Despite this widespread ...appreciation and interest, profound disagreement, debate, and analytical impression persists, not least regarding the relationship between race and the necessary ‘laws of motion’ of capitalist society. This article begins by tracing the core approaches to the race and capitalism conversation, paying particular attention to their understanding of the necessity/contingency distinction. It then proceeds to make the case for race as a contingent – which, emphatically, does not mean local or insignificant – relatively autonomous, and historically path-dependent terrain of struggle in capitalist society, which has largely functioned to maintain capital’s necessary disequilibrium between the value form and its value relations, but need not do so. It closes by exploring the implications of this claim in relation to recent historical-geographical research on post-1898 US imperialism.
Este artículo presenta las continuidades entre el pensamiento de un referente clásico del marxismo como es Lukács y el pensamiento de Juan Carlos Rodríguez, un teórico de la literatura también ...marxista pero menos consagrado a nivel internacional. En concreto, a continuación se estudia cómo la cosificación, la noción clave de Historia y conciencia de clase, es indisociable, y de hecho presupone, otro concepto rector de la crítica de la economía política, la explotación. A partir de ella lee Rodríguez la literatura, inaugurando una metodología de análisis ideológico no axiologico y centrado en la contradicción como valor fundamental.
The paper concentrates on resolving the question: is it possible today to be guided by Marxism as an instrument of social transformation, is this teaching capable of contributing to social ...advancement? Facts are a stubborn thing: Marxism in its completeness is refuted. But the fact of the collapse of the attempts to put Marxism into practice is not a completely convincing argument against the social doctrine of Marx. The question, ultimately, goes back to the problem of the subjective factor of the moral, theoretical, and political maturity of those who turn Marxism in actual practice.
In this article I analyse global and national neoliberalisms- economic and social class war from above- neoconservatisms which are leading to and connected with NeoFascisms- with their scapegoating, ...racism, xenophobia, misogyny, heterophobia, militarism and the attacks on dissent- whether electoral, media, or from academics/ universities and workers’ organisations and actions. Six prime examples are Erdogan in Turkey, Bolsonaro in Brazil, Trump in the USA, Orban in Hungary, the Law and Justice government in Poland, and the racist government in Italy, in effect led by Salvini. Across Europe Far-right anti-immigrant, xenophobic and ultra nationalist authoritarian parties are recruiting and becoming electorally significant- and, in some cases, significant on the streets. Critique social democratic reformist parties and governments for adopting neoliberal austerity policies and thereby becoming delegitimised, together with the too-often `accomodationist' trade union and party leaderships. and critically examine prospects for left social democracy as represented, for example, by the Jeremy Corbyn led Labour Party in the UK. Much of the article is devoted to the resistant and the revolutionary role of teachers, academics and education/ cultural workers in different arenas, from national and local electoral and direct action politics/ Focusing on Critical Education, Critical Educators, Marxist Education, Marxist Educators, I seek to address four aspects of education: pedagogy, the curriculum, resistance in the classroom and the hidden curriculum, and the structure of schooling nationally and locally (within-school). I conclude by setting out what is specifically Marxist about the proposals set out. These are: (1) Class Analysis: the Capital-Labour Relation; (2) Capitalism must be replaced by Socialism and that change is Revolutionary; and (3) Revolutionary Transformation of Economy and Society needs to be preceded by and accompanied by a Class Programme, Organisation, and Activism. Regarding capitalism, our task is to replace it with democratic Marxism, to lead, firstly, into socialism, and ultimately, into communism. As teachers, as educators, as cultural workers, as educational, union and party activists, as intellectuals, we have a role to play.
This article talks about issues related to education that are inherent to Marxism and analyzed by various Marxist scholars. Specifically, class consciousness and the formation of the collective that ...must be experienced by each individual in training with the group. In the context of globalization, what is class consciousness, what should education be like, and how to relate them? Rosa Luxemburg argues that workers matured through a series of oppressions that gave them individual consciousness, but through strikes they achieved their class consciousness. The previous generations have opened the revolution for the education of the younger generation in the future. This shows us that education is not only about the individual but also about the community, or the collective. Moreover, worker’s collectivities in the context of globalization will bring great significance in revolutionizing education, from individual to collective.
En el presente artículo el autor intenta describir y explicar la génesis y la conformación histórica de la sociología como disciplina académica en Argentina a partir de su reconocimiento y ...consolidación institucional en la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). Las influencias iniciales que recibió del estructural-funcionalismo norteamericano, pero también el influjo antagónico de la sociología crítica estadounidense. Focaliza su análisis en el papel central ocupado por el sociólogo Gino Germani y toda la serie de disputas, discusiones y debates que se originaron en torno a su interpretación de la disciplina, principalmente en polémica con los exponentes del marxismo latinoamericano en sus diferentes corrientes y tendencias
La Revista Aurora fue uno de los dispositivos discursivos con los que se disputó la lucha ideológica por la hegemonía cultural en Chile y fue, además, el espacio intrapartidario donde se disputó ...teóricamente un concepto de lo político. En la Revista Aurora se escenificó una discusión conceptual y política dirigida por un propósito doble: al interior de la sensibilidad y la institucionalidad partidista, se puso en acto una intervención teórica de cuño gramsciano en la concepción leninista del partido. Más ampliamente, en el campo político-social del país, se trató del delineamiento de una política cultural que le disputara la hegemonía ideológica a la tradición social-cristiana.
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