{"title":"Is infrastructure a critical aspect of self-organized entrepreneurial activity?","authors":"Aimilia Chronopoulou, Antonis Papangelopoulos, Theofanis Papageorgiou","doi":"10.1177/03098168241232385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241232385","url":null,"abstract":"The limitation of capitalist principles and ethics has long been an issue for self-organized enterprises. Even though capitalist modes of labor organization, administration, and management are expelled from the workplace, issues of growth, investment, production, and circulation remain exposed to dominant forms of production. Nevertheless, communities of solidarity, along with spatial and techno-material settings, constitute the infrastructure of commoning practices in those endeavors. We compare the cases of the factory occupation movement in Argentina and the occupation of the Vio.Me. factory in Greece (2010), where a shift to self-organization emerged in the context of the Argentinian and Greek economic crises. We focus on struggles revolving around the use and ownership of spatial-material infrastructure and the production of use-values, highlighting the emancipatory potential of self-organization. Space and objects appear as a contested terrain, while at the same time, material settings are transformed, through the collectives’ participation in networks of distribution and solidarity.","PeriodicalId":502271,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"26 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139962619","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}
{"title":"Vygotsky’s unit of analysis and dialectics in thinking and speech","authors":"Tasos Travasaros","doi":"10.1177/03098168241232376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168241232376","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the importance of the dialectical method in Vygotsky’s research on verbal thinking. Specifically, it demonstrates the relationship between the unit of analysis in Thinking and Speech and the dialectical method followed by Marx in Capital, along with presenting the different stages of a child’s thinking (syncretism, complexive thinking and conceptual thinking) that emerged as a result of Vygotsky’s historical–logical research. Ultimately, this article argues that Vygotsky’s Thinking and Speech is compatible with Marxism and activity theory.","PeriodicalId":502271,"journal":{"name":"Capital & Class","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139962407","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}