This document provides a summary of ideas related to open Marxism and anti-capitalist thought. It outlines key thinkers such as John Holloway, Werner Bonefeld, Harry Cleaver, and others who have been influenced by autonomous Marxism. It also summarizes some of their major works, including Holloway's book "Change the World Without Taking Power" and discusses concepts like autonomism, work, the state, social form, and the commons. The document aims to provide a "family tree" of thinkers and ideas within open and autonomous Marxism.
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1. What does the future hold?
Why is it that the focus here* is on anti-capitalism
action rather than organizing effectively help stop
evictions and transforming banks to engines of
sustainable development? by a participant in
online dialog in response to Brians article Eat the
Rich Sept.2011
* At http://occupyeverything.org/2011/eat-the-rich/
3. Open marxisms
Some coming from Edinburgh Conf. of Socialist
Economists (Common Sense journal):
John Holloway, Werner Bonefeld
Open Marxism series (Bonefeld,Holloway et al) vol.3:
Emancipating Marx and vol.2: includes
Harry Cleaver, The inversion of class perspective in
marxian theory: from valorisation to self-valorisation.
4. Change the world
Holloways book Change the world without
taking power was the start for this project.
5. Change the world (short version)
12 theses on changing the world without taking
power
6. From Common Sense to The
Commons
Common Sense from Edinburgh Conference of
Socialist Economists included John Holloway
Continues as The Commoner
Later: the Commons ed. By Massimo De
Angelis
7. Holloway: autonomism, work &
state
Excerpts from Why Adorno?
Excerpts from Negative and positive
Autonomism
Excerpt from We are the crisis of abstract
labour
Excerpt from Cracks and the crisis of abstract
labour
8. Werner Bonefeld
Social form, critique and human dignity
Subverting the present, imagining the future
9. Others influenced by Autonomism
This is forever Affective politics seminar
Team colors Uses of a whirlwind
Beyond good and evil commons seminar with
Silvia Federici, George Caffentzis & David
Graeber at 16 Beaver Group
10. Others influenced
Autonomous universities and the making of the
knowledges commons, George Caffentzis in
The Commoner website, Dec.2008
Notes on the edu-factory and cognitive
capitalism G.Caffentzis & Silvia Federici
12. Eros
Eros effect, people power and the peoples
uprising by George Katsiaficas
Link to videos :
Eros Effect: People Power and Peoples Uprising
Eros in Eygpt
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=24094
5485861016019&hl=en#
Editor's Notes
List sources
Autonomist marxism, open marxism, and situationism as well as marxist humanism and vanguardism still have some continuing influence.
Open Marxism vol.3 available at libcom.org/library/open-marxism-volume-3-emancipating-marx vol.2
Complete 2002 ed. Available at: http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-john-hollowayAlso 12 theses on Change the world without taking power
See //libcom.org/library/social-form-critique-and-human-dignityfirst draft of Subverting the present: //freelyassociating.org/anti-capitalist-movements
www.thisisforever.org Affective politics seminar: thisisforever.org/past-events/summer-seminar-affective-politics teamcolors.wordpress.com and warmachines.info
Autonomous universities..at http://www.commoner.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/caffentzis_autonomous-universities.pdfcognitive capitalism at http://eipcp.net/transversal/0809/caffentzisfederici/en/print
Nowtopia: strategic exodus? C. Carlsson, in Antipode, v.42, no 4 (2010) online: //onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ (accessed 12/8/2011) Nowtopia website: www.nowtopians.com
Try accessing video from link from flash drive (Three Crises file)