Becoming MarxistPub Date : 2019-03-21DOI: 10.1163/9789004280984_006
Ted Stolze
{"title":"‘The Roaring of the Sea’: Hobbes on the Madness of the Multitude","authors":"Ted Stolze","doi":"10.1163/9789004280984_006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280984_006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373437,"journal":{"name":"Becoming Marxist","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121551936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Becoming MarxistPub Date : 2017-10-25DOI: 10.1163/9789004280984_010
Ted Stolze
{"title":"Death and Life in Marx’s Capital: an Ethical Investigation","authors":"Ted Stolze","doi":"10.1163/9789004280984_010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280984_010","url":null,"abstract":"In this talk I seek to reclaim Karl Marx’s distinction in Volume I of Capital between what, following Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, we might call the “conceptual personae” of living and dead labor. For example, in chapter ten on “The Working Day,” Marx memorably and hauntingly observes that “Capital is dead labour which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.” My aim is to make visible an important implied feature of Marx’s ethics (as opposed to his moral philosophy) of flourishing. Along the way, I draw on, as well as propose an ethical supplement to, William Clare Roberts’s recent reconstruction of Marx’s political theory in Capital . Moreover, I argue that such a supplement ought to be grounded in the human and nonhuman life-values that, as John McMurtry and Jeff Noonan have compellingly argued, are ceaselessly undermined by the capitalist mode of production. To be precise, in the concluding words of chapter fifteen on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry,” Marx insists that “capitalist production … only develops the techniques and the degree of the social process of production by simultaneously undermining the original sources of all wealth – the soil and the worker.” In the twenty-first century, I suggest, we should expand on Marx’s point and speak of the capitalist assault on both humanity and the Earth System. As an ethical alternative to G. A. Cohen’s call for an “egalitarian ethos,” I conclude my talk by urging socialists to embrace and cultivate an “ethos of non-domination” in everyday life.","PeriodicalId":373437,"journal":{"name":"Becoming Marxist","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124016712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Becoming MarxistPub Date : 2016-09-15DOI: 10.1163/9789004291553_011
Ted Stolze
{"title":"Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture","authors":"Ted Stolze","doi":"10.1163/9789004291553_011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004291553_011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373437,"journal":{"name":"Becoming Marxist","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114514669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Becoming MarxistPub Date : 2016-02-17DOI: 10.1163/9789004280984_012
Ted Stolze
{"title":"Contradictions of Hyperreality: Baudrillard, Žižek, and Virtual Dialectics","authors":"Ted Stolze","doi":"10.1163/9789004280984_012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280984_012","url":null,"abstract":"In this article I situate and make sense of Jean Baudrillard’s writings regarding “hyperreality” and then consider Slavoj Žižek’s insistence on the “reality of the virtual” as opposed to “virtual reality.” I argue that Baudrillard has offered a contemporary, inverted variation on Leibniz’s classical idealist position, whereas Žižek has followed a dialectical materialist course charted especially by Ernst Bloch. Finally, I contend that there remain contradictions of hyperreality itself that constitute a domain of virtual dialectics. I see where [Žižek is] coming from, his vision of things, a particular kind of perception. I share the “feeling” of what he writes, whilst not agreeing with him at all. You can question it all: he wants to keep a sort of dialectic, there’s still Marxism in there somewhere. He works with Jameson and people like him, with American neo-Marxists. Not forgetting the form of Lacanian real he uses. All of that is mixed in together, and there are all sorts of strange complexities. I don’t know whether you can separate it all out, but it’s very interesting – being very much in phase and also totally out of phase. Jean Baudrillard 1. From Leibniz to Baudrillard In section eight of his Discourse on Metaphysics (1686) G.W. Leibniz asserts that all true predication has some basis in the nature of things and that, when a proposition is not an identity, that is, when the predicate is not explicitly contained in the subject, it Special Issue: Baudrillard and Žižek","PeriodicalId":373437,"journal":{"name":"Becoming Marxist","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126505641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Becoming MarxistPub Date : 1998-09-01DOI: 10.1080/08935699808685540
Ted Stolze
{"title":"Deleuze and Althusser: Flirting with Structuralism","authors":"Ted Stolze","doi":"10.1080/08935699808685540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935699808685540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373437,"journal":{"name":"Becoming Marxist","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132402140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Becoming MarxistPub Date : 1990-09-01DOI: 10.1080/08935699008657942
Ted Stolze
{"title":"A Marxist Encounter with the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze","authors":"Ted Stolze","doi":"10.1080/08935699008657942","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08935699008657942","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":373437,"journal":{"name":"Becoming Marxist","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1990-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116454564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Becoming MarxistPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1163/9789004280984_004
Ted Stolze
{"title":"Paul’s Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation","authors":"Ted Stolze","doi":"10.1163/9789004280984_004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004280984_004","url":null,"abstract":"http://ctt.canterbury.ac.nz Abstract: My focus is on the Biblical prophetic warning about, and solution to, severe debt injustice – whether individual or collective. I seek to demonstrate the New Testament’s continuity with the Jubilee theme of economic justice and debt cancellation laid out in the Hebrew Scriptures. In particular, I argue that Paul of Tarsus well understood the economic difficulties faced by wage laborers in the first-century Roman Empire and the all-too-real possibility of debt bondage, and – through his collection “for the poor among the consecrated at Jerusalem” – devised a creative means to reclaim the Biblical tradition of debt cancellation. In short, Paul envisioned what we could call a “gift economy” based not only on mutuality but also, and especially, on addressing the needs of the weak, vulnerable, and poor.","PeriodicalId":373437,"journal":{"name":"Becoming Marxist","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131465841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}