From: Michael Heinrich (m.heinrich@PROKLA.DE)
Date: Wed Dec 26 2007 - 15:04:19 EST
Paul, "Wertkritik" is a notion used since the early nineties by Robert Kurz and group around the German journal "krisis" to characterize their approach: stressing the role of value in forming social relations, fetishism and so on. Insofar there is a similarity to the "value form school" (and to that, what is called in Germany the "new reading of Marx": discussions about Marx, which stress the form-analysis, the logical order of categories and so on, with Hansgeorg Backhaus and Helmut Reichelt as important representatives). The name "value form school" is usually not used by the "representatives" of this "school", but by others to characterize them. Therefore, what is called "value form school", is rather vague and includes a lot of different positions, I wouldn't speak of "school". This German "wertkritik" is much more like a uniform "school" (and in the meantime there was split in this group, with mutual accusations and all that, what we know from schools and groups). Specific for them is, that they see a big difference between their approach and more traditional views of Marxists, who stress exploitation, distribution and class struggle. The "Wertkritik" school expects nearly nothing from actions of the working class. Another specific attribute of this "Wertkritik" is a theory of a "break-down" tendency of capitalism (closely related to the short remarks, Marx made in "Grundrisse" when dealing with machinery): micro-electronic revolution reduces productive (i.e. surplus value producing) labour, what will shake the capitalist system in a way, that a further development, a new prosperous cycle of accumulation is not possible, capitalism is on a downwards road (but not necessarily on the road to revolution and communism). These two attributes are not necessarily characteristic for authors, who are considered as representatives of the "value form school". Regarding Sabine Nuss, she doesn't come from "Wertkritik". When "value form school" or the "new reading of Marx" is understood in a broad sense, she is near to it (the same I would say about myself). Michael Paul Cockshott schrieb: >Michael, would I be right in thinking that Nuss is from the WertKritik school? > >I would also be interested in your view of how the German language WertKritik >school relates to the English Language 'Value Form' school? > >Quoting Michael Heinrich <m.heinrich@PROKLA.DE>: > > > >>Sabine Nuss presented such a theoretical elaboration in her book >>"Copyright & Copyriot" (in German) - rather critical against the idea >>that communism would start with linux. Papers of her (in German) you can >>find on her website www.nuss.in-berlin.de >>A brief English handout presented at the Socialist Scholars Conference >>in New York is >> >> >> >> >http://wbk.in-berlin.de/wp_nuss/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/digitalproperty_02.pdf > > >>This paper followed a debate with Richard Stallmann >> >>http://wbk.in-berlin.de/wp_nuss/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/stall_1.html >> >>Michael >> >>Howard Engelskirchen schrieb: >> >> >> >>>Paul and others, >>> >>>I'd be interested in some theoretical elaboration of this -- why >>>would left wing computer people say so and what would they mean when >>>they say so? How do they think existing relations of production are >>>transformed? >>> >>>howard >>> >>>At 05:25 PM 12/22/2007, you wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>I think what Gates says here is what many left wing computer people >>>>would also say. >>>> >>>>Paul Cockshott >>>>Dept of Computing Science >>>>University of Glasgow >>>>+44 141 330 3125 >>>>www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-----Original Message----- >>>>From: OPE-L on behalf of glevy@PRATT.EDU >>>>Sent: Sat 22/12/2007 5:34 PM >>>>To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU >>>>Subject: [OPE-L] OpenSource: a "new source of communism" >>>> >>>>A short article from the English >>>>online version of >>>>_L'Humanite'_, >>>>published by the PCF, in which >>>>Bill Gates >>>>is quoted as saying >>>>that Open Source is a "new >>>>source of communism": >>>> >>>> <http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article319.html> >>>> >>>> >>>>The article, though, doesn't >>>>identify the >>>>original source for >>>>the quote. >>>> >>>>In solidarity, Jerry >>>> >>>> >>> >>> > > >Paul Cockshott > >www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc >reality.gn.apc.org > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > >
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