Todd and I did this piece together a while back for ASR, trying to think out some issues w/r/t our understanding of what we and a few friends call ‘solidarity unionism’. That became this piece for an issue of Turbulence, which has now been published as a book. One of these days soonish we’re going to revisit both and see what we like, what we’d say differently, and what we dislike.
Also, the other day I got the citation info for where my thing “A Biopolitical Stage of Capitalism?” was published: Critical Sense, Volume 14, Number 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 69-101. It’s also online with messed up footnotes here. There’s much I’d do different in it now (like hem and haw less!) and it’s definitely a “I’m thinking my way to something” kind of piece, but at the same time… on the basic point I’m right. π
Hey Nate:
It would be great if you could post your list of publications somewhere. I am getting ready to finally finish my history of the CCU (I have been working on a book project that will be done by the end of the month thus allowing me the time to resume my work on the CCU piece) and it is morphing into my reflections on solidarity unionism. I’d like to quote some of the stuff that you and Todd have put together. It would be easier if I could find it…
Hey Nate: I’ve expressed some skepticism about your politics the last couple years, so I want to say I really enjoyed the piece on biopolitics, which I just read, particularly the parts that used Marxian formulas to place the workers’ (esp. women’s) bodies in the exchange process. Good stuff.
hi Colin, Eric,
Nice to hear from both of you. Colin, other than stuff in the IW this is all my publications. π I’m excited about that CCU and book project stuff, that’s great, and likewise the refletions on solidarity unionism.
Eric, thanks for the kind words. For whatever it’s worth I’ve mostly taken our disagreements to be about theoretical interpretation and have taken the real political differences to be pretty minimal, so the skepticism has never been a big deal (since it’s abundantly clear we share core values, I’d say we are at the very least close fellow travelers). Anyhow, that’s kind of you.
On those formulas, one of these days I’m gonna get back to all that. I’ve got various notes on the blog about Marx and slavery, I think those formulas also describe slavery as practiced in the 19th century US (not to say they’re a sufficient description, just that slavery fits into them). That’s another area where some folks are wrong (including Marx sometimes) who argue that capitalism is only ever waged labor.
take care,
Nate