A sudden topicality: Marx, Nietzsche and the politics of crisis

Radical Philosophy

Volumn , Issue 160, 2010, Pages 19-26

  Osborne, Peter ^a  

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1. David Yaffe, 'The Marxian Theory of Crises, Capital and the State', Bulletin of the Conference of Socialist Economists, Winter 1972, pp. 5-58;
2. Andrew Gamble and Paul Walton, Capitalism and Crisis, Macmillan, London, 1976;
3. Union of Radical Political Economists, United States Capitalism in Crisis, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1978;
4. Paul Mattick, Economic Crisis and Crisis Theory, Merlin, London, 1981;
5. Simon Clarke, Marx's Theory of Crisis, Macmillan, London, 1993.
6. Rick Kuhn, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2007;
7. 'Economic Crisis, Henryk Grossman and the Responsibility of Socialists' (his Memorial Prize Lecture), Historical Materialism, vol.17, no.2, 2009, pp. 3-34;
8. Michael Lebowitz, Following Marx: Method, Critique and Crisis, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2008, Part 3; Samantha Ashman et al., 'Symposium on the Global Financial Crisis', Historical Materialism, vol.17, no. 2 (2009), pp. 103-213.
9. Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part 2, Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1969, p. 528.
10. Antonio Negri, 'The Constitution of Time' (1981), in Time for Revolution, trans. Matteo Mandarini, Continuum, London and New York, 2001, pp. 54-55
11. Theories of Surplus Value, Part 2, p. 497.
12. Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (Rough Draft), trans. Martin Nicolaus, Penguin/New Left Books, Harmondsworth, 1973, p. 415; Theories of Surplus Value, Part 2, p. 528.
13. Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3, Book 3, 'The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole', Lawrence & Wishart, London, 1959, p. 249;
14. Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, Dritter Band, Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1964, p. 259.
15. In this instance, the Lawrence & Wishart (L&W) translation is preferable to the later, usually more reliable, Penguin edition. Cf. Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 3, trans. David Fernbach, Penguin/New Left Review, London, 1981, p. 357.
16. Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, Book 1, 'The Process of Production of Capital', trans. Ben Fowkes, Penguin/New Left Review, Harmondsworth, 1976, p. 770, translation amended;
17. Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, Erster Band, Karl Dietz Verlag, Berlin, 1962, p. 648. Fowkes neglects to translate the 'itself [selbst], which (as Étienne Balibar has pointed out to me) Roy's 1875 French translation strengthened to 'spontanément'.
18. Marx, Capital, Volume 3, L&W, p. 250;
19. Karl Dietz Verlag, p. 260; cf. Penguin, p. 358.
20. Marx, Capital, Volume 3, L&W, p. 246; Karl Dietz Verlag, p. 256; cf. Penguin, p. 355.
21. Marx, Capital, Volume 3, Penguin, p. 358; Karl Dietz Verlag, p. 260; cf. L&W, p. 246.
22. David Harvey, 'Introduction to the 2006 Verso Edition', in The Limits to Capital (1982), Verso, London and New York, 2006, p. xxii.
23. Cf. Étienne Balibar, 'Elements for a Theory of Transition', in Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar, Reading Capital (1968), trans. Ben Brewster, Verso, London and New York, 1979, p. 291n.
24. See for example, Grundrisse, p. 416.
25. Marx, Capital, Volume 3, Penguin, p. 355, translation amended;
26. Karl Dietz Verlag, p. 256. For an attempt to enrich and update Marx's account of crises and the counteracting tendencies through which they are resolved, with respect to, first, the post-World War II development of finance capital, and second, its geographical aspects, see Harvey, The Limits to Capital, ch. 10, section X, and ch. 13, sections V and VI, respectively.
27. Pavel V. Maksakovsky, The Capitalist Cycle: An Essay on the Marxist Theory of the Cycle (1928), trans. Richard B. Day, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2004; Lebowitz, Following Marx.
28. Balibar, 'Elements for a Theory of Transition', p. 293.
29. As argued, for example, by Dick Bryan in his contribution to the panel 'Derivatives' at the Historical Materialism conference, London, 29 November 2009.
30. It is in the transition from the analysis of 'Tendency and Contradiction in the Mode of Production' to 'History' that Balibar's 'Elements for a Theory of Transition' runs up against the internal limits of the Althusserian problematic, for which 'history', is not itself considered a concept of the theory of history, but rather only of its epistemology. Reading Capital, p. 302.
31. James O'Connor, The Fiscal Crisis of the State, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 1973. See also his Accumulation Crisis, Blackwell, Oxford, 1984.
32. Jürgen Habermas, Legitimation Crisis, trans. Thomas McCarthy, Heinemann, London, 1976.
33. James O'Connor, The Meaning of Crisis: A Theoretical Introduction, Blackwell, Oxford, 1987.
34. Reinhart Koselleck, Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society, Berg, Oxford/New York/Hamburg, 1988;
35. 'Crisis', trans. Michaela W. Richter, Journal of the History of Ideas, vol.67, no.2, April 2006, pp. 357-400;
36. 'Some Questions Regarding the Conceptual History of "Crisis'", in Reinhart Koselleck, The Practice of Conceptual History: Timing History, Spacing Concepts, Stanford University Press, 2000, ch. 14, pp. 236-47.
37. Critique and Crisis, pp. 11-12, 185.
38. Ibid., p. 127.
39. Ibid., p. 168.
40. Koselleck, 'Crisis', pp. 358-61; 'Some Questions Regarding the Conceptual History of "Crisis'", pp. 237-40.
41. Harvey, Limits to Capital, p. xiii. Harvey is writing about the 'widespread acceptance of the benefits to be had from the individualism and freedoms that a free market supposedly confers', but his account neglects issues of subjectivation.
42. Walter Benjamin, 'Paris, Capital of the 19th Century: Exposé of 1939', in The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA and London, 1999, p. 26.
43. See note 5.
44. Marx, Capital, Volume 1, pp. 770-71; Karl Dietz Verlag, p. 648.
45. See Peter Osborne, 'Modernism and Philosophy', in Peter Brooker et al, eds, The Oxford Handbook on Modernism, Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming 2010, ch. 20.
46. See Peter Osborne, 'Remember the Future?: The Communist Manifesto as Cultural-Historical Form', in Philosophy in Cultural Theory, Routledge, London and New York, 2000, pp. 63-77.
47. Walter Benjamin, 'Central Park', in Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938-1940, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA and London, 2003, p. 175;
48. T.W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory (1970), trans. Hullot-Kentor, Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis, 1997, p. 27.
49. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R.G. Hollingdale, Random House, New York, 1968, pp. 1053, 1056, 58, 28.
50. Marx, Grundrisse, p. 488, translation amended. Cf. Peter Osborne, 'Marx and the Philosophy of Time', Radical Philosophy 147 (January/February 2008), pp. 15-22, p. 17. Marx's modernism was historico-philosophical, or part of an historical ontology of the human, rather than ontological as such.
51. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848), in Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Collected Works, Volume 6, Lawrence & Wishart, 1976, pp. 477-512.
52. Benjamin, 'Central Park', pp. 166-167, 178.
53. Benjamin, 'Paris, Capital of the 19th Century: Exposé of 1939', The Arcades Project, pp. 25-26