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Crisis Theory for Anti-Capitalists

Bay Area Public School

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This course provides an introduction to social crisis with a focus on the present.
We imagine ve sessions. 1) Introduction, reading Anwar Shaiks discussion of various
theories of crisis 2) Detailed discussion of underconsumptionist theories, including
Luxemburg and Harvey 3) Detailed discussion of prot squeeze theories, Brenner, and
Italian autonomists 4) Ecological crisis and capitalism 5) Detailed discussion of crisis of
accumulation While the courses approach is mostly through a critique of political economy,
we will also address the relationship of capitalist and ecological crisis. Well start with an
introduction to leading crisis theories, their strengths and limits, and the central question of
whether the causes of crisis are internal or external to capital. We will also try to situate crisis
theory in relation to other signicant contemporary concerns: immaterial and affective labor,
communization, ecology, nancialization, and more. This course will be facilitated by Joshua
Clover, Neil Larsen, and others to be announced.
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Keith Paterson | May 26, 2013 at 9:22 am
Brilliant and much needed. A critical political economy for activists is sorely needed to
explain the crisis of course but also to get our heads round the complex and mystifying
nature of capitalism. I have stumbled around creating such a course and delivered to
community activists and trade unionists in Aberdeen, Scotland using some of Jim Stanfords
work on Economics for Everyone but departing from him as I think you need a theory of
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value and it doesnt have to be as complicated as academics seek to make it.

Keith Paterson
Aberdeen
Doug Prishpreed | May 27, 2013 at 3:07 am
No Falling rate of prot section?
grundrisser | May 29, 2013 at 11:13 pm
Yes, session ve on June 7
fran grifths | May 28, 2013 at 9:17 am
Hi
Any chance of rolling out this course in other placeswales for example.
grundrisser | May 29, 2013 at 11:15 pm
REAdings are available for download at crisistheory4anticaps.wordpress.com
Classes themselves are exclusively real time, at least for now, this being the
inauguration of the class. Possible that audio recordings of sessions may have been
made, not sure now.
Jane | June 1, 2013 at 3:59 am
doing it in Berlin in early August
grundrisser | June 5, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Just get me over to Wales, and Ill do the crisis theory class for free, for three months,
repeatedly!
africaanalysis | June 3, 2013 at 11:38 am
Fantastic good work.
chris | July 26, 2013 at 12:45 pm
So when/where will this be happening in Berlin? Will it be open to the public? Would
really love to attend
Iakovos Alhadeff | January 26, 2014 at 4:59 am
Austrian Economic Crises
http://www.scribd.com/doc/201709399/The-Causes-of-the-Economic-Crisis-For-NonEconomists-The-Austrian-School-Approach

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