Capital as Power: An Audio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan

Capital as Power: An Audio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan
Cochrane, DT and Nitzan, Jonathan. (2010). 20 September. (Interview; English).

Abstract or Brief Description

THE QUESTIONS:

1. Why do we need a theory of capital at all? (00:51 minutes)

2. Why do we need a new theory of capital? (10:28 minutes)

3. What does your theory of capital do that the other problematic theories do not? (21:57 minutes)

4. Where do other power institutions such as the military or the police and other government organs fit within this cosmology? (06:32 minutes)

5. You have described capital as "finance, and only finance." This would seem to be an explicit inversion of Marx who considered finance to be fictitious capital. Can you describe the role of finance in capitalism? (19:30 minutes)

6. Marx's system of thought was a total system. What consequences, if any, does your theory have for other important Marxian concepts, such as alienation? (23:25 minutes)

7. Marx’s emphasis on production and labour gave workers a central role in both capitalist society and the communist society to come. What are the consequences for your understanding of the worker’s role in accumulation on the one hand and a humane post-capitalist society on the other? (20:57 minutes)

8. What, if anything, does your theory tell us about either resistance against capitalism today or the creation of a humane post-capitalist society? (06:20 minutes)

Duration of the complete interview: 1:51 hours

Language

English

Publication Type

Interview

Keywords

ownership accumulation capital class cosmology dominant capital duality elementary particles equilibrium exploitation fictitious capital finance globalization government labour theory of value mode of power mode of production neoclassical economics neo-Marxism nomos political economy politics vs. economics price productivity profit real vs. nominal socially necessary abstract labour stagnation state surplus value utility utils

Subject

BN Theory
BN State & Government
BN Cooperation & Collective Action
BN Industrial Organization
BN Civil Society
BN Institutions
BN Macro
BN War & Peace
BN Conflict & Violence
BN History
BN Methodology
BN Agency
BN Resistance
BN Capital & Accumulation
BN Class
BN Labour
BN Growth
BN Civilization & Social Systems
BN Hegemony
BN Power
BN International & Global
BN Culture
BN Business Enterprise
BN Value & Price
BN Crisis
BN Production
BN Myth
BN Money & Finance
BN Ideology
BN Distribution
BN Micro
BN Policy

ID Code

301

Deposited On

06 June 2012

Commentary/Response Threads

• Nitzan, Jonathan and Bichler, Shimshon. Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder. (deposited 29 November 2010)
  • Brennan, Jordan. Theory of Capital Makes a Comeback. New Strategies for the Study of Society (Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Captial as Power"). (deposited 12 September 2009)
  • Nitzan, Jonathan. Invitation for a seminar on the current crisis followed by a book launch of CAPITAL AND POWER. (deposited 22 October 2009)
  • Brennan, Jordan. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Captial as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 18 December 2009)
  • Cochrane, DT. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 06 June 2012)
  • Martin, Ulf and D'Alessio, Nestor and Wolf, Harald. Kapital als Macht und imaginäre Institution: Eine Einführung in die Kapitalmachttheorie von Jonathan Nitzan und Shimshon Bichler. (deposited 12 May 2010)
  • Fisher, Mark. From the Economic Crisis to Fanaticism, Three New Publications Explore the Meaning of Capital (Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder"). (deposited 30 August 2010)
  • Cochrane, DT and Nitzan, Jonathan. Capital as Power: An Audio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan. (deposited 06 June 2012) [Currently Displayed]
  • Mathoor, Vineeth. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 02 July 2011)
  • Hansen, Bue Rübner. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 20 August 2011)
  • Larudee, Mehrene. Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 26 August 2011)
  • Regilme, Salvador Santino F. Jr. Book Review: Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 31 May 2012)
  • Soong, C. S. and Nitzan, Jonathan. Rethinking Capital (Two-Part Radio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan). (deposited 14 June 2012)
  • Wolf, Harald. 'Capital as Power' - Notiz zu einem neuen Forschungsansatz und einer Konferenz ('Capital as Power' - notice on a new research approach and a conference). (deposited 17 December 2012)
  • Alan, Freeman. Review of Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 11 June 2013)