Issue 24

Contents

An Alternative View of the Yugoslav Conflict     5
Alfred Mendes

The End of Work or the Renaissance of Slavery? A Critique of Rifkin and Negri     20
George Caffentzis

On Fascism: Note on Johannes Agnoli’s Contribution 39
Werner Bonefeld

Wildcat (Germany) reads John Holloway – A Debate on Marxism and the Politics of Dignity     58
Wildcat and John Holloway

The Politics of Change: Ideology and Critique     76
Werner Bonefeld

From the Revolution Against Philosophy to the Revolution Against Capital     91
Mike Rooke

Book Reviews

Jon Stewart (ed)
The Phenomenology of Spirit Reader, Critical and Interpretive Essays     100
Dr John Glassford

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Issue 23

Contents

The Gulf Crisis Re-examined     5
Alfred Mendes

The Native Within Us, the Earth We Belong To     14
Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Commodity Fetishism & Reification     53
Mike Rooke

The Communist Manifesto 1848-1998

150 Years Old: Looking Back in Anger     80
Werner Bonefeld

The Communist Manifesto Today     83
John Holloway

Book Review

Ruth Milkman
Farewell to the Factory: Autoworkers in the Late Twentieth Century     89
Curtis Price

Notes on Contributors 92

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Issue 22

Contents

Mexico is Not Only Chiapas, Nor is the Rebellion in Chiapas Merely a Mexican Affair    5
Katerina

Dignity and the Zapatistas     38
John Holloway

Lavori in Corso     43
Riccardo Bellofiore

Globalisation and Democracy: An Assessment of Joachim Hirsch’s Competition State 61
Werner Bonefeld

Marxism and Subjectivity: searching for the marvellous (Prelude to a Marxist notion of action)     83
Ana Dinerstein

Book Review

Terry Brotherstone & Geoff Pilling (eds.)
Economic History and the Future of Marxism: Essays in Memory of Tom Kemp     97
Chris Arthur

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Issue 21

Contents

An Uncommon View of the Birth of an Uncommon Market     7
Alfred Mendez

Zapatista Discourse: What is New     18
Alejandro Giullermo Raiter & Irene Ines Munoz

Reappropriations of Public Space     31
Toni Negri

The Autonomy of the Economy and Globalisation     41
Massimo De Angelis

Notes on Anti-Semitism     60
Werner Bonefeld

Review Article

Revolutionary Theory in 1579     77
Richard Gunn

Keith Jenkins On ‘What is history?’ – From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White     91
Derek Kerr

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Issue 20

Contents

Reflections on Social Movements & the Politics of Need: Locating the Dialectic Between Identity and Difference     5
Peter Kennedy

Colonial Anthropology: An Enlightenment Legacy? The Lockean Discourse on Nature, Social Order and Difference     21
Athena Athanasiou

Guy Debord and the Metaphysics of Marxism: an obituary of Guy Debord     34
Steve Turner

The Realidad in Europe: an account of the first European meeting against neoliberalism and for humanity     49
Massimo De Angelis

Two Zapatista Dialogues     60
Eloina Pelaez and John Holloway

Mersey Dockers Interview     67
from the Liverpool Dock Strike

Review Article

The Game’s a Bogey: John Maclean and class recomposition today     73
Allan Armstrong

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Issue 19

Contents

Marxist literary theory after Derrida     5
Drew Milne

The Concept of Power and the Zapatistas     20
John Holloway

The Zapatistas: Conference Notice     28
EZLN

The Crisis of Political Space     33
Toni Negri

A Critique of the Fordism of the Regulation School     42
Ferruccio Gambino

Rewriting the Politics of The City Builders: A Review of Susan S. Fainstein     65
Brian McGrail

Book Reviews

Cyril Smith Marx at the Millenium 75
Werner Bonefeld

Terry Eagleton & Drew Milne Marxist Literary Theory 78
Olga Taxidou

Mariarosa Dalla Costa & Giovanna Dalla Costa
Paying the Price, Women and the Politics of International Economic Strategy 80
Werner Bonefeld

Murray E. G. Smith Invisible Leviathan 82
Chris J. Arthur

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Issue 18

Contents

Page 1 . NO POLITICS WITHOUT INQUIRY: A PROPOSAL FOR A CLASS COMPOSITION INQUIRY PROJECT 1996-7
by Ed Emery

Page 12 . FLEXIBILISATION OF LABOUR AND THE ATTACK ON WORKERS LIVING STANDARDS
by Anne Gray

Page 34 . CYCLES & CIRCUITS OF STRUGGLE IN HIGH-TECHNOLOGY CAPITALISM
by Nick Witheford

Page 81 . BOOK REVIEWS

‘SHADOWS OF TENDER FURY and ‘ZAPATISTAS!’
reviewed by Olga Taxidou

‘RACE REBELS: CULTURE, POLITICS AND THE BLACK WORKING CLASS’
reviewed by Curtis Price

Page 91 . SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK-ISSUES

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Issue 17

Contents

Page 1 . THE ZAPATISTA UPRISING
A LETTER FROM THE ZAPATISTAS
by the E. Z. L. N.

Page 4 . THE ZAPATISTAS
by John Holloway

Page 11 . DEVELOPMENT & REPRODUCTION
by Mariarosa Dalla Costa

Page 34 . MAYAS & ZAPATISTAS
by Javier Villanueva

Page 39 . WHAT DO WE OWE TO THE SCOTS?
Reflections on Caffentzis, the Property Form and Civilization
by Richard Gunn

Page 69 . THE POLITICS OF DEBT: SOCIAL DISCIPLINE AND CONTROL
by Werner Bonefeld

Page 92 . BOOK REVIEWS
by Adrian Wilding and Peter Fraser

Page 98 . SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK-ISSUES

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Issue 16

Contents

Page 5 . BEYOND THE NEWS
BOSNIA, BOHEMIA AND BILDERBERG: THE COLD WAR INTERNATIONALE
by Alfred Mendes

Page 15 . NAZISM AND THE WORKING CLASS 1933-93
by Sergio Bologna

Page 58 . MISTAKING RIGHTS AND NORMATIVITY
by Manolis Angelidis

Page 65 . ON THE SCOTTISH ORIGIN OF ‘CIVILISATION’
by George Caffentzis

Page87 . INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO NEGRI’S ‘CONSTITUENT REPUBLIC’
Editorial Committee

Page 88 . CONSTITUENT REPUBLIC
by Toni Negri

Page 96 . BOOK REVIEWS
by Alice Brown and Cyril Smith

Page 103 . SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK-ISSUES

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Issue 15

Contents

Page 5 . BEYOND THE NEWS
THE CHIAPAS UPRISING AND THE FUTURE OF CLASS STRUGGLE
by Harry Cleaver

Page 18 . THE TIME OF TRIAL BY SPACE
by Derek Kerr

Page 37 . OPEN MARXISM

Page 38 . THE RELEVANCE OF MARIXSM TODAY
by John Holloway

Page 43 . HUMAN PRACTICE AND PERVERSION: BEYOND AUTONOMY AND STRUCTURE
by Werner Bonefeld

Page 53 . MARXISM & CONTRADICTION
by Richard Gunn

Page 60 . V.A.T. ON FUEL

Page 62 . SCIENCE AND HUMANITY: HEGEL, MARX AND DIALECTIC
by Cyril Smith

Page 75 . THOMAS PAINE ON COMMON SENSE
by Richard Gunn

Page 82 . BOOK REVIEWS
by Ian Fraser, David Gorman and Brian McGrail

Page95 . SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK-ISSUES

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Issue 14

Contents

Page 5 . BEYOND THE NEWS
CAPITAL’S ‘WATER CRISIS’: A SCOTTISH ANALYSIS
by Brian McGrail

Page 17 . THE FREEING OF MARX
by John Holloway

Page 22 . MARXISM, NEO-REALISM AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
by Peter Burnham

Page 32 . MARXIAN CATEGORIES, THE CRISIS OF CAPITAL AND THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIAL SUBJECTIVITY TODAY
by Harry Cleaver

Page 58. HISTORY AND ‘OPEN MARXISM’
A REPLY TO JOHN HOLLOWAY
by Heidi Gerstenberger

Page 63 . MONEY AND CRISIS: MARX AS CORRESPONDENT OF THE NEW YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, 1856-57.
by Sergio Bologna

Page 90 . BOOK REVIEWS
by Paul Barret, Alan Rice, Adrian Wilding, Ian Fraser and Andrew Watson

Page 103 . SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK-ISSUES

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Issue 12

Contents

Page 5 . BEYOND THE NEWS
THE GENERAL ELECTION AND THE BREAK-UP OF THE U.K.

Page 36 . POETRY
by Margaret Fulton Cook

Page 43 . DESTRUCTION AS DETERMINATION OF THE SCHOLAR IN MISERABLE TIMES
by Jaochim Agnoli

Page 52 . THEORY AND HISTORY OF THE MASS WORKER IN ITALY (Part 11)
by Sergio Bologna

Page 79 . POETRY
by Colin Chalmers

Page 82 . ART, M E SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE SELF AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION IN SCOTLAND
by Murdo Macdonald

Page 93 . THE POLL TAX REBELLION
Reviewed by Bob Goupillot

Page 98 . WOMEN IN ARMED RESISTANCE
Reviewed by Werner Bonefeld

Page 101 . DAVIE’S SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT
Reviewed by Richard Gunn

Page 105 . POST-FORDISM AND SOCIAL FORM
Reviewed by Brian McGrail

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Issue 11

Contents

Page 5 . EDITORIAL

Page 7 . BEYOND THE NEWS

A TRULY RUSSIAN COUP?
by Common Sense playwrights

Page 16 . THEORY AND HISTORY OF THE MASS WORKER IN ITALY
by Sergio Bologna

Page 30 . POETRY
by Colin Chalmers and Bobbie Christie

Page 34. DEATH RULES OVER GERMANY
by Karl-Heinz Roth

Page 42 . THE ECONOMICS OF THE FINAL SOLUTION
by Götz Aly and Susanne Heim

REQUIEM FOR TWO OR THREE SCOTTISH MINERS. . .
by Ed Emery

Page 69 . IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE SCREAM
by John Holloway

Page 79 . MARXISM AND COMMON SENSE
by Richard Gunn

Page 101 . SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK-ISSUES

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Issue 10

Contents

Page 5 . EDITORIAL

Page 9 . THESES ON THE GULF WAR
by a Common Sense discussion group

Page 17 . PRODUCING THE PROPER CRISIS
by Philip Agee

Page 31 . THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS: DANGER AND OPPORTUNITY
by Robert Ovetz and Ross Dreyer

Page 40 . POEMS
by Bryan Duncan

Page 43 .  SCOTLAND AND ITS PEOPLE
A Photo Investigation

Page 49 . WORKERS’ STRUGGLES UNDER THE NAZIS
by Elisabeth Behrens

Page 58 . ARGENTINE GAUCHOS
by Harry Cleaver

Page 62 . POLICING THE POLL TAX
Trafalgar Square Defendants Campaign

Page 75 . POEMS
by Jim Ferguson

Page 79 . SUBSCRIPTION AND BACK-ISSUES

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Issue Eight

Contents

Walter Gibson : Bingo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Interview : The Trial of Ingrid Strobl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Harry Cleaver : The Uses of an Earthquake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Harry Cleaver : Marginality and Self-Valorisation . . . . . . . . . 22

CSE-Edinburgh : The Anti-Poll Tax Campaign: New Forms of Class Struggle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Peter Dymohe : Suspect World-View: Non-Deterministic History and the Eating of Greens. . . . . . . . . . 34

George Bataille : Letter to X (Kojéve) . . . . . . . 46

Brian McGrail : What is Enlightenment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50

Review of : Stephen Houlgate Hegel, Nietzsche and the Criticism of Metaphysics . . . . . . . .62

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Issue Seven

Contents

Editorial …………………………………………….. 2

Andrew Duncan: The Scientistic Fallacy ………………….3

Keith Mothersson (an interview): Nuclear ‘Weapons’ and People’s Law …26

Martin McAvoy: Philosophy as Poison ……………………….46

John Holloway: Marxism. ……………………………..59

Johan de Wit: Two Poems ……………………………60

Richard Gunn: In Defence of a Consensus Theory of Truth…….63

Anon.: Future News ……………………………………..82

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Issue Six

Contents

Norah Martin: An Introduction to Susanne Langer’s Mind: An Essay On Human Feeling . . . . . . . .4

Interview: The Protest against the World Bank/IMF Meeting in Berlin – An Interview . . . . . . 14

Adam Beck: Here Comes the Ocean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 4

Walter Gibson: The Political Activist and Trade Unions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Werner Bonefeld: Class Struggle and the Permanence of Primitive Accumulation . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Richard Gunn: Marx between Hegel and Kant . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Alan Hunter: Theses on Britain’s Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament . . . . . . .  . . . . . .72

Costas Dikeos/Hilary Andersson: Two Letters on Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Review : Communist Party: Facing up to the Future by Richard Gunn . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  82

Contents of Previous Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

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Issue Five

Contents

Colin Nicholson: Signifying Nothing: Noting Barthes’ Empire of Signs . . . . . .5

Judith Squires: Public Man, Private Woman: Feminist Approaches to the Public/Private Dichotomy . . . . . . . .16

Brian McGrail: Environmentalism: Utopian or Scientific? . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Paul White: Small is Small – Or the Shrinking of Schumacher . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Peter Martin: National Strike at Ford-UK . . . . . . . .46

Robert Mahoney: On Civility & Terror . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

George Davie: On Common Sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Kosmas Psychopedis: Notes on Mediation-Analysis . . . . . . .72

John Holloway: An Introduction to Capital (or: How I fell in love with a Ballerina) . . . . . . . . . . . .79

Ewan Davidson: The Commonsense of Concessions – or ‘HE AINT’T HEAVY HE’S MY BROTHER . . . . . . . 83

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Issue Four

Contents

Hans Kastendiek: Teaching Politics: The Development of West German Political Science ……….3

Kim Tebble/Kenneth Brady: A Conversation on Cajun Music ………13

Paul Smart: Mill and Marx: Individual Liberty and the Roads to Freedom: A Proposal for a comparative critical Reconstruction ………..22

Guy Woodall: Absolute Truth …………33

Richard Gunn: ‘Recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit …………40

Poem: Diaspora. Communicated to CS anonymously ……………69

Mark Kingwell: Just War Theory ……..71

Dario Fo: The Tale of a Tiger ………..74

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Issue Three

Contents

Kosmas Psychopedis: Some Remarks on Dialectical Theory …………… 2

Keith Anderson: Music of a wholly old Type? …………. 10

L’Insecurite Sociale: The demise of ‘Decadence’ ……… 18

Paul White: The Circular-Forward Waltz ………………22

Martyn Everett: Anarchism in Britain – A Preliminary Bibliography …………… 29

Toni Negri: Archaeology and Project: the Mass Worker and the Social Worker ..43

Reviews:

R. Steiner ‘Friedrich Nietzsche’ ……………72

G. Bataille ‘Visions of Excess’ ……………. 73

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Issue Two

Contents

Richard Norris: Selfhood – The Options ……………… 3

Murdo Macdonald: The Centre of Psychology ……………14

Richard Gunn: Notes on ‘Class’ ……………………. 15

Filio Diamanti: “Class” in Marx’s Thought and beyond … 26

Olga Taxidou: Performance or Bodily Rhetoric ……….. 42

Nigel Gunn: Democracy of a wholly new Type? ………… 52

Keith Anderson: A Consideration of Perpetual Motion …. 54

Richard Gunn: Marxism and Mediation ……………….. 57

Werner Bonefeld: Marxism and the Concept of Mediation..67

Free University of Glasgow: The Free University: A Background …. 73

Interview with Hans Magnus Enzenberger ……………. 76

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Issue One

Contents

Judith Squires: Feminist Epistemologies and Critical Political Theory ……………. 3

Murdo Macdonald: Types of Thinking…………..22

Kenneth Brady: The Spanish Collectives……..26

Julie Smith: Marx or Muesli …………31

Werner Bonefeld: Open Marxism ………….34

Richard Gunn: Practical Reflexivity in Marx ………39

John Holloway: A Note on Fordism and Neo-Fordism……………52

What is Education? ………………..60

Brian McGrail: Marx and Bright Sparx …………………64

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