Video: “Temporal Value Theory at a Moment of Capitalist Crisis”

The Marxist-Humanist Initiative sponsored and participated in several panels and events at the Rethinking Marxism conference in Amherst, MA, from November 5-8, 2009. Video from a series of sessions, Temporal Value Theory at a Moment of Capitalist Crisis, sponsored by the Marxist-Humanist Initiative and Critique of Political Economy at Rethinking Marxism is now available. Special thanks to Brendan Cooney for the video recordings. Read the rest of this entry »

Video: June 23 NYC Meeting in Series on “Confronting Capitalism’s Economic Crisis”

Here is a video of the first meeting in the on-going series. It includes talks by Andrew Kliman: “The economic crisis and left responses,” and by Anne Jaclard: “A new organization for a time of crisis,” and discussion with the audience.

Check out information for rest of the seminars in this series. Andrew Kliman’s charts for the presentation in this movie are posted below the jump for reference.

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On “New Passions and New Forces”: Marxist-Humanism’s Break from Both Spontaneism and Vanguardism

In a April 18, 1976 piece, “Our Original Contribution to the Dialectic of the Absolute Idea as New Beginning:  In Theory, and Leadership, and Practice,” Dunayevskaya stated,

[A]t the height of Capital, we see [Marx] breaking up the Absolute Idea by speaking about the general absolute law of capitalist accumulation.  But its opposite was always taken to be only the unemployed army – and not the absolutely, totally opposite which we take it to be now.  Marx only mentioned it as ‘the new passions and new forces for the reconstruction of society.’  The negation of the negation at that point certainly wasn’t spelled out. Read the rest of this entry »

Public Meeting, July 8 in London: Andrew Kliman on ‘Causes and Implications of the Economic Crisis’

Andrew Kliman on ‘Causes and Implications of the Economic Crisis’

Wednesday 8 July
Lucas Arms (upstairs room)
245a Grays Inn Road
St Pancras, London (Kings Cross tube)
8 to 10 pm.

Andrew Kliman is author of Reclaiming Marx’s “Capital” and a member of Marxist-Humanist Initiative. Meeting sponsored jointly by The Hobgoblin and The Commune.

The concreteness of Marxist-Humanism

The author examines Dunayevskaya’s method of concretizing Marx and suggests that Hegel and Marx together spell out the material, conceptual ground for developing an alternative to capitalism today.
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