Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

Activity

You added a note
8 years, 1 month ago

imperialism is not only territorial intervention archive/dissertation

[...] You're creating a global capitalism within which the American state and American capital have structural power.

The structural power comes from the fact that that the U.S. is still the dominant country in terms of technology. It's increasingly playing a crucial role in terms of what I rai…

—p.109 Capital and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult Capitalist Crisis and Radical Renewal (105) by Sam Gindin
You added a note
8 years, 1 month ago

the role of finance in global production archive/dissertation

You simply couldn't have global production with out the role that finance plays just in this respect, and I'm not even getting into the role that finance plays in terms of venture capital, which was very important in terms of the development of information and technology revolution we just lived th…

—p.107 Capitalist Crisis and Radical Renewal (105) by Leo Panitch
You added a section
8 years, 1 month ago
You added a note
8 years, 1 month ago

ineluctably translate into anticapitalist politics inspo/anti-capitalism

[...] the recognition of capitalism's bankruptcy does not ineluctably translate into anticapitalist politics [...]

The obstacles to conceiving a new emancipatory politics are formidable [...] Neoliberalism has meant a gloves-off form of class war, borne out by the assault on militant unions, rel…

—p.11 Introduction (1) by Sasha Lilley
You added a note
8 years, 1 month ago

the global pool of labour

Neoliberalism also entailed the dispossession and incorporation of massive numbers of new workers into the waged labor force [...] The expansion of the global pool of labor has eroded labor's bargaining power, making it much harder for workers to demand higher wages without capital going elsewhere.…

—p.6 Introduction (1) by Sasha Lilley