Capital as Power: An Audio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan

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

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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

Commentary on

Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder.
Nitzan, Jonathan and Bichler, Shimshon (2009). RIPE Series in Global Political Economy. Routledge. (Book; English).

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

Depositing User

Jonathan Nitzan

Date Deposited

06 Jun 2012

Last Modified

01 Apr 2016 18:30

URL:

https://bnarchives.yorku.ca/id/eprint/301

Commentary/Response Threads

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  • Wajnsztejn, Jacques Reading Notes on the Book Capital as Power. (deposited 10 Apr 2016 22:22)
  • Wajnsztejn, Jacques Notes de lecture sur le livre "Le capital comme pouvoir". (deposited 02 Jan 2015)
  • Freeman, Alan Review of Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 11 Jun 2013)
  • 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 Dec 2012)
  • Soong, C. S. and Nitzan, Jonathan Rethinking Capital (Two-Part Radio Interview with Jonathan Nitzan). (deposited 14 Jun 2012)
  • Cochrane, DT Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 06 Jun 2012)
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  • 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)
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  • Mathoor, Vineeth Review of Nitzan and Bichler's "Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder". (deposited 02 Jul 2011)
  • Di Muzio, Tim Call for Contributions: "The Capitalist Mode of Power: Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of Value". (deposited 19 Jan 2011)
  • 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 Aug 2010)
  • 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)
  • Nitzan, Jonathan Invitation for a seminar on the current crisis followed by a book launch of CAPITAL AND POWER. (deposited 22 Oct 2009)

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