Chris Cutrone A rejoinder to Peter Hudis on “Capital in History” Historical consciousness articulates the problem of what “ought” to be with what “is.” The question is how the necessities of emancipatory struggles in the present relate to those of the past. The tasks revealed by historical Marxism have not been superseded but only obscured [...]
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Remember the future! A rejoinder to Peter Hudis on “Capital in History”
Re-thinking the Crisis of Capital in Light of the Crisis of the Left
Peter Hudis “Far from expressing a sequence of never-ending progression, the Hegelian dialectic lets retrogression appear as translucent as progression and indeed makes it very nearly inevitable if one ever tries to escape regression by mere faith.”—Raya Dunayevskaya (1) It may seem ironic that a moment so typified by the crisis of capital calls for [...]
Capital, Spectacle, and Modernity: An Interview with Retort
Soren Whited A prefatory statement from Retort: Having talked over your questions at length, we find that they can be answered best by grouping together several of them and trying to spell out the key issues and assumptions we see underlying them. That way, we hope, the common ground between Retort and Platypus will be [...]
Capital in history: The need for a Marxian philosophy of history of the Left
Chris Cutrone [The following is a talk given at the Marxist-Humanist Committee public forum on The Crisis in Marxist Thought, hosted by the Platypus Affiliated Society in Chicago on Friday, July 25, 2008.] I want to speak about the meaning of history for any purportedly Marxian Left. We in Platypus focus on the history of [...]
