rotenotesAnti-globalisation has, thus, to mean complete #democratisation so as to make all social forces accountable to human #needs. In sum, the demand for a new #democratically constituted #regulation of #capital should be taken seriously. Though, it should be deepened and not restricted to legitimate the social engineering of discipline. It should first of all be taken on in the tradition of Enlightenment thought: Doubt everything! Second, it should be taken to its logical conclusion: the democratic organisation of socially necessary labour by the associated producers themselves, that is, the utopia of the society of the free and equal that #Marx summed up with one word: #communism.
Further, the critique of #globalisation fails if it is merely a critique of speculative capital and that is, a critique for productive accumulation. It was the crisis of productive accumulation that sustained the divorce of monetary accumulation from productive accumulation (Bonefeld and Holloway, 1995). The critique of #speculation has to be a critique of the #capitalist form of social reproduction. Without such a critique of capital, the critique of speculation is reactionary. It summons the idea of #finance and #banks and #speculators as merchants of #greed. In the past, such views underpinned modern anti-semitism and its idea of a community of blood and soil (Bonefeld, 1997). The fact that #Nazism espoused ‘industry’ and rejected what it saw as vampire like finance, should be sufficient to highlight the rotten character of such a critique of globalisation.
“… the #everyday #struggle over the #production and #appropriation of #surplus_value in every individual #workplace and every local community is the basis of the #class_struggle on a global scale.”
Shift Magazine » Interview issue 5 » Interview with Werner #Bonefeld