L’AFFAIRE HAIN CADIOT, JULIETTE
Cahiers du monde russe,
04/2018, Letnik:
59, Številka:
2/3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
À Kiev, entre le 20 et le 26 novembre 1952, au club du ministère de la Sécurité d’État (MGB), 15/17 rue Rosa Luxembourg, les inculpés Hanan Aronovič Hain, Jakov Evseevič Jarošeckij, David Izrailevič ...Gerzon, Moisej Salomonovič Gruško, Lev Šlemovič Teplickij, âgés de plus de cinquante ans à l’exception d’un seul, furent jugés coupables par le tribunal militaire de la région de Kyiv d’avoir voulu saboter le commerce soviétique en ayant causé un préjudice à l’État de sept millions de roubles. De 1946 à son renvoi en 1951, Hain dirigea un commerce de gros de textile, une base (Glavlegsbyt) qui pourvoyait la région de Kyiv en tissu pour un chiffre d’affaires de plus de deux milliards de roubles et qui employait 160 salariés. Ce fut à l’issue d’une enquête sur divers détournements, vols et reventes de marchandises, corruption, ayant impliqué des dizaines d’inculpés et une centaine de témoins que les protagonistes principaux de cette affaire furent appréhendés, détenus et condamnés ; trois d’entre eux furent exécutés. À travers l’étude des archives judiciaires de ce procès, se dessinent les traits d’un certain milieu, celui des cadres du commerce soviétique qui faisaient preuve de débrouillardise dans le contexte extrêmement contraint de la désorganisation, du déficit et de l’anxiété de l’après-guerre. Le procès de Hain éclaire la dynamique entre redistribution et marché propre à l’économie soviétique et l’intersection entre le monde des politiques et celui des criminels économiques, à l’échelle régionale et locale.
In Kiev, between November 20 and 26, 1952, at the club of the Ministry of State Security (MGB), 15/17 Rosa Luxemburg Street, Khanan Aronovich Khain, Iakov Evseevich Iaroshetsckii, David Izrailevich Gerzon, Moisei Salomonovich Grushko, Lev Shlemovich Teplitskii, aged above fifty years with the exception of one person, were convicted by the military court of Kiev region of sabotaging Soviet trade by causing financial loss to the state of seven million rubles. From 1946 until his dismissal in 1951, Khain had managed a wholesale textile base (Glavlegsbyt) providing Kiev region with fabrics. The base had 160 employees and a revenue of more than two billion rubles. Following an investigation on various embezzlement cases, thefts and resales of merchandise and corruption involving dozens of accused people and a hundred of witnesses, the main protagonists of this affair were apprehended, detained and sentenced; three of them were executed. The study of court documents reveals the specific milieu of Soviet trade cadres who had to make do within extremely limited resources – disorganization, deficit, and postwar anxiety. Khain’s trial sheds light on the interrelationship, specific to the Soviet Union, between redistribution and market, and on how the worlds of politicians and economic criminals intersected at the local, regional level.
Digital Labor and Imperialism Fuchs, Christian
Monthly review (New York. 1949),
01/2016, Letnik:
67, Številka:
8
Journal Article, Magazine Article
Recenzirano
A century has now passed since Lenin's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) and Bukharin's Imperialism and World Economy (1915), as well as Rosa Luxemburg's 1913 Accumulation of ...Capital, all spoke of imperialism as a force and tool of capitalism. It was a time of world war, monopolies, antitrust laws, strikes for pay raises, Ford's development of the assembly line, the October Revolution, the Mexican Revolution, the failed German revolution, and much more. It was a time that saw the spread and deepening of global challenges to capitalism... This article reviews the role of the international division of labor in classical Marxist concepts of imperialism, and extends these ideas to the international division of labor in the production of information and information technology today. I will argue that digital labor, as the newest frontier of capitalist innovation and exploitation, is central to the structures of contemporary imperialism.
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Rosa Luxemburg Frank Jacob, Albert Scharenberg, Jörn Schütrumpf / Frank Jacob, Albert Scharenberg, Jörn Schütrumpf
2021
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The year 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth. Even though she met a violent death in the course of the 1918/19 revolution and much has subsequently been done to diminish her ...memory, her works remain an inspiration to this day for all those who seek to create a new, better, and more just world. This volume brings together works by German-speaking and international scholars who address Luxembourg’s aftermath from different perspectives and with different questions. In their entirety, they underscore the important significance that Luxemburg’s thoughts still have today.
Im Jahr 2021 jährt sich Rosa Luxemburgs Geburtstag zum 150. Mal. Auch wenn sie im Zuge der Revolution von 1918/19 einen gewaltsamen Tod fand und in der Folge viel getan wurde, ihr Andenken zu schmälern, bleiben ihre Werke bis heute eine Inspiration für all diejenigen, die versuchen, eine neue, bessere und gerechtere Welt zu schaffen. Der Band versammelt Arbeiten von deutschsprachigen und internationalen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern, die sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und mit verschiedenen Fragestellungen dem Nachwirken Luxemburgs widmen. Sie unterstreichen in ihrer Gänze den bedeutenden Stellenwert, den Luxemburgs Gedanken bis heute besitzen.
The citizen creates the alien. The apparatus of citizenship establishes the criteria to determine who should be counted as undocumentable and therefore alien to lawful existence in this geographical ...territory. Detention centers extend the carceral imagination that subtends the modern state, which has claimed ownership of a particular land and has established a legal framework to criminalize and punish peoples who are categorized as threats to its vision for society. This paper tracks with Scriptural theologies that inform mechanisms of enslavement, the shadow side of citizenship. The United States is a project in social engineering, in population control, invested in registering and monitoring and relocating human life—all of which resonate with political trajectories outlined in biblical texts. The Scriptures are not salvific on their own terms. A liberative theology begins with a political commitment of solidarity. In this paper the detention center becomes a site from which to understand the carceral power that creates the world—a political landscape echoing with biblical theologies.
Existentialism as a World Theory Lee, Alex Taek-Gwang
Symploke (Bloomington, Ind.),
01/2020, Letnik:
28, Številka:
1-2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The Cold War following the traumatic experiences of enduring warfare forced the Korean intellectuals to distort the political implication of the global philosophical movements and emphasize its ...empirical elements through their translations of Sartre. The ideology of the Cold War distorted Sartre's influence on the Korean intellectuals, and their reception of his philosophy was saturated with the myth of Bildung. For them, existentialism was regarded as a channel through which they could get access to the cosmopolitan ideals of the Enlightenment. Of course, there lied the irony of national identification behind this passion for global intellectualism. Nationalism made an excuse for reading Sartre, even though his philosophy must be classified leftist thought. Existentialism was clearly supportive of the Third World against the political polarization of the Cold War. From the nationalist perspective, existentialism showed a possible way towards the philosophy of the non-European, but at the same time, it seemed procommunist to those who agreed with the anti-communist world order.
Rosa Luxemburg was one of the most significant political theorists within the Socialist International movement during the turn of the nineteenth century. Her career included writings addressing ...various political issues such as nationalism and Marxist orthodoxy. One of her more significant approaches to revolutionary strategy was the use of mass strikes to attack both political and economic national institutions as a means for bringing down imperialistic capitalism. This article examines, from a transnational perspective, the development of her acclaimed The Mass Strike, the Political Party and Trade Unions (1906). Specifically, four "geo-moments" were used to analyse how her conception of mass strikes evolved from her early roles as a strike organiser in Warsaw to participation and assessment of the 1905 Russian Revolution that resulted in her Mass Strike pamphlet.
The presidential elections in Cuba in March 2018 has raised again the question of the country’s survival. How can Cuba hold up and develop against the economic, cultural, and military encirclement of ...U.S. imperialism in particular and the capitalist system in general? An answer can be sought in the history of Cuba’s socialist transition, the unique role played by Che Guevara, and the emergence of ideas regarding the possibility (and impossibility) of achieving socialism in one country alone.
What can contemporary activists and political theorists learn from the life and work of Rosa Luxemburg? Examining her contribution to radical democracy and revolutionary socialism, Jon Nixon shows ...why Red Rosa's legacy lives on. Luxemburg's political and intellectual formation was in itself a 'long revolution', conceived of over time and in response to world events; her groundbreaking ideas around internationalism and spontaneity were formulated in the context of revolution. Returning to her thinking on global capitalism, democratic renewal, state militarism, and the social question, Nixon draws out the enduring nature of her work, using her framework of ideas as a lens through which to view the contemporary debates. By establishing a rich and distinctive account of Luxemburg, Nixon makes the argument for why her struggle for democratic renewal is as relevant as ever.
J une 1917. A world is at war. Empires—in Europe, Eurasia, Asia, the Middle East and North Africa— are crumbling. Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-German revolutionary Marxist, had anticipated the ...destruction in her prescient “Junius Pamphlet”: “This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilization. At first, this happens sporadically for the duration of a modern war, but then when the period of unlimited wars begins it progresses toward its inevitable consequences. Today, we face the choice exactly as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration— a great cemetery. Or the victory of socialism, that means the conscious active struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism and its method of war. This is a dilemma of world history, an either/or; the scales are wavering before the decision of the class-conscious proletariat. The future of civilization and humanity depends on whether or not the proletariat resolves manfully to throw its revolutionary broadsword into the scales. In this war imperialism has won. Its bloody sword of genocide has brutally tilted the scale toward the abyss of misery. The only compensation for all the misery and all the shame would be if we learn from the war how the proletariat can seize mastery of its own destiny and escape the role of the lackey to the ruling classes.”
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