Kees van der Pijl: Replies to the Questions for the Berlin Workshop

The outbreak of the crisis was the endpoint of attempts to contain the crisis that effectively erupted when capital abrogated the class compromise forced on it by labour and socialist forces in 1968-69. A most convincing theory elaborating this is Wolfgang Streeck’s claim (in Gekaufte Zeit/Buying Time:  More

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Judith Dellheim

Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Referentin Solidarische Ökonomie

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  1. Wolfgang Streeck is not a left-wing critic of the capitalist mode of production. This does not mean to refuse to learn from him, but this explains the question about the limits of an analysis based on Streeck. And thinking and asking so, another question is about the “fractions of capital”: Is it enough to explain them in the stressed way? What about the finance capital behind these fractions? “Finance capital” doesn’t mean “money capital”. It is to be understood as a special quality of capital as a social/societal power relation based on the societal system of labour devision.

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