Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051374
Fikret Adaman, P. Devine
This essay provides a framework to develop policies that can both resist the capitalist system and formulate alternatives to it, by critically reviewing discussions of an ecosocialist society and its economic organization through revisiting the “calculation debate” that was started in the 1930s and is still ongoing. It underlines the importance of repoliticizing the economic sphere to reembed the economy in society rather than society being subordinated to the economy. To that aim, it emphasizes the gravity of (1) planning our future, (2) coordinating our decisions before we embark on any action, (3) relying on knowledge in different forms and formats as articulated at both the individual and societal level, and (4) generating real democracy via participatory and deliberative mechanisms. Finally, the essay critically assesses progressive responses to current economic, ecological, and health crises and, because local and macro initiatives are equally important and feed one another positively, advocates for adopting a multiscale approach.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051376
H. Archambault, Luke Pretz
This essay responds to Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine’s application of the negotiated-coordination framework to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and climate crisis. It does so by contextualizing these crises in the light of capitalism’s racialized and imperialist history, thereby problematizing their use of Polanyi’s embeddedness framework and socialist democracy. Specifically, if the consequences of racial capitalism and imperialism are not actively addressed, the economic will be subordinated to social and political institutions that retain their racialized and imperialist character. The essay thus explores the consequences of the dispossession of racialized people and of the Global South in the context of the pandemic and the climate crisis, concretizing and illustrating those concerns and concluding that a system of negotiated coordination limited to stakeholder democracy is insufficient. Instead, this coordination must prioritize the needs and knowledge of racialized people and the Global South.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051370
J. Welburn
Sarah Hogan’s Other Englands traces the origins of the utopia genre to the emergence of transatlantic imperialism and agrarian capitalism in the early modern period. Combining Marxist historiography and literary criticism, Hogan’s book offers new insights into the transitional character of early modern utopias, which gave expression to modes of being and structures of feeling that had not yet been clearly conceptualized. The encounter with the New World and the social dislocation brought about by primitive accumulation and the enclosure of the commons generated an experience of the present as transitional or provisional, and this sense of the present as Other contributed to the formation of an early modern utopian sensibility: a frame of mind oriented to a radically different but still this-worldly future, projected outward in the form of “other Englands.”
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051378
Fikret Adaman, P. Devine
In responding to Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine’s essay “Revisiting the Calculation Debate: A Call for a Multiscale Approach,” Hannah Archambault and Luke Pretz, Aaron Benanav, and Ted Burczak at points reinforce the text’s positions, reinterpret arguments from different angles, complement arguments, and raise their own concerns. With gratitude, the authors here provide their own reflections on these responses, advocating for politically determined economic priorities, with negotiated-coordination bodies deciding the investments to realize those priorities and with market exchange at the enterprise level. This corresponds to a self-governing society in which the self-realization of individuals can be fully achieved and in which people have real autonomy to participate directly or indirectly in all levels of decision making that affect them.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051375
Aaron Benanav
Building on the work of Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine, this essay considers the social presuppositions for the construction of a socialist investment function. When it comes to investment, people care about many issues: not only efficiency but also work satisfaction, fairness, sustainability, and so on. Investment decisions therefore need to be structured to make people feel that their voices can be heard across the wide range of their concerns. Facing this complexity and potential for conflict, socialist investment would likely be structured as a negotiated political-planning process in which not only workers take part but also individuals organized into a variety of civic associations, including political, cultural, scientific, and religious. This essay questions how such associations would acquire the resources needed to carry out their activities and proposes a possible solution in social provisioning.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051371
Aaron Schneider
This review of Jörg Nowak’s Mass Strikes and Social Movements in Brazil and India highlights the book’s ambition and hopefulness. It ambitiously explores an area of labor- and social-movement theory in which powerful minds have offered insights but important leaps forward are necessary to make sense of the current moment. The book is additionally ambitious because it tackles recent phenomena in two disparate, enormously complex, and influential countries: Brazil and India. The book is hopeful in its identification of patterns and openings, seen through the lens of mass strikes in these countries, by which working classes might lead a transition from the current “long depression” into a more socially just and equitable socialist future.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051377
T. Burczak
This essay explores Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine’s position that democratic planning would expand human autonomy. It argues that economic democracy involving workplace democracy, private property, and widespread markets would generally be more autonomy enhancing than a system of democratic planning with social ownership and few markets. However, it acknowledges the problems ecological limits may place on the autonomy of future populations, making the choice between democratic planning and economic democracy more ambiguous.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051372
S. Mercer
Ana C. Dinerstein and Frederick H. Pitts’s A World beyond Work? collects in one volume a series of essays that critically appraise the new wave of postwork and postcapitalist thought that has emerged since the middle of the last decade. The authors argue that the “postwork prospectus” focuses too heavily on the abolition of concrete labor, leaving its abstract social forms—and with them the social relations of capitalist society—unthought and unmoved. Though this fetishism of concrete labor forms the body of their critique, Dinerstein and Pitts reproduce this fetishism in their own political recommendations, offering a Marxist-humanist thesis of counter-alienation located in their own celebration of the “social” characteristics of concrete labor.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2051389
Étienne Balibar, David S. Broder
As a counterpart to the discussion of recent theories of “social reproduction” and their confrontation with the Marxian critique of political economy, this essay develops a genealogy of the concept of “reproduction” itself, from a semantic and historical point of view. Observing the intersection of problems coming from the realm of natural history and from classical political economy, which involve three different significations (remaining invariant despite displacements in their uses) and which we identify by means of the classical categories of mimesis (reproduction of a model), genesis (continuation of life), and poiesis (restoration of a stock), the essay is consequently able to compare strategies of crisis resolution and to reconstruct an imaginary of revolution based on mutation and interruption.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-10DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2022.2043721
Regletto Aldrich D. Imbong
In the essay “Police Power: The Biopolitical State Apparatus and Differential Interpellations,” Banu Bargu developed the notion of the Biopolitical State Apparatus (BSA). This essay deploys Bargu’s notion of the BSA within what it claims is a militarized police power in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Illustrating how the functioning of militarized police power underpins the implementation of public-health policy and the enforcement of laws that complement such power, the essay will further demonstrate through the BSA concept what police power says about the state under the Duterte regime, how this regime relates to the state of exception and posttruth politics, and how its policing operates in contrast to other states.
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