Reading Recommendations: Neoliberalism and the nation state.

[ItWillNeverWork]

I don't suppose anyone has any reading recommendations on what the implications of Neoliberalism are for the nation state, do they? It's a topic likely to come up in some exams I have in a month or so. I've got a couple of David Harvey's books (A Brief History..., and The Enigma of Capital) which are good, but was hoping someone might have a few more pointers to other stuff that isn't so obvious.

 

[butchersapron]

Hundreds and hundreds mate, thousands if you include the omg globalisation is killing the state!! publishing fad of a decade or so ago as well. Give us a bit and i'll post ones i found useful.

 

[butchersapron]

Historical Materialism and Globalisation
Dicken - Global Shift - Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy (chapters 5-7)
Forces of Labor - Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870
First part of The politics of the world economy
Couple of chapters in Kiely - The Clash of Globalisations
Recommended: Smith - Globalisation A Systematic Marxian Account

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I've found Stephen GIll's work very illuminating of this issue. See for example

http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/010gill.pdf

 

[butchersapron]

Maybe be of some use, not read yet: SPECULATIONS ON 
THE STATIONARY STATE

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

All good stuff. Thank you.

 

[articul8]

Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, The Making of Global Capitalism (Verso)

 

[butchersapron]

I have uploaded this here.

 

[butchersapron]

And fuck verso!

 

[articul8]

But how will Sebastien afford his French retreat?

 

[butchersapron]

Budgen isn't anything to do with verso is he, and he is from a historically super-rich family with properties all over france anyway.

 

[love detective]

Is the Historical Materialism guy? I think he is something to do with Verso - he is the public school boy marxist who referred to people downloading music & stuff for free as:-

loud-mouthed freeloading scum who have no interest in or understanding of how to build a counterhegemonic apparatus

 

[butchersapron]

That's him but i've only ever seen him mentioned as being part of verso in that unkant thing.

 

[articul8]

I'm pretty sure he is a big fish in Verso at least in the UK/Europe. This piece has him as "Acquisitions Editor"

 

[purves grundy]

Nice links dude

 

[camouflage]

I don't suppose anyone has any reading recommendations on what the implications of Neoliberalism are for the nation state, do they?

this one looks interesting.

 

[sihhi]

And fuck verso!

If you buy like 3 of their books when they exhibit at places they give you this apparently:

It's a Zizek tote bag saying 'My God is pure ideology' in cod Cyrillic letters, he's Slovenian, they tend to use the latinised form of their alphabet certainly since 1990 anyway.

 

[Idris2002]

I don't think they ever used cyrillic - in fact they were slated for Aryanisation during the war.

 

[love detective]

yeah i don't think they used it either - serbia and macedonia did/do and while serbian and slovenian are fairly similar phonetically, they use different alphabets. slovenian was an official language in yugoslavia as well so not like it was suppressed/discouraged by the federal state like what happened in ex-soviet countries

i hate that cod cyrillic, seems to be everywhere these days, lots of posters and t-shirts with pictures of marx and cod cyrillic on it as well from crap like that philosophy football which all seem to think that marx was russian

 

[love detective]

Budgen isn't anything to do with verso is he, and he is from a historically super-rich family with properties all over france anyway.

He posted a thread (or whatever they are called) in the historical materialism group on facebook the other day announcing the release of this book

After getting a few reasonable and informed critical comments on Solidarity - he pompously announced that the historical materialism discussion group on facebook was not a place for erm...discussion and warned that anyone else making any more comments on the book he had just posted about would have them deleted (He also routinely deletes reasonable posts from people when they ask why the latest books from the HM series cost around £150 each)

I copied and pasted the paragraph below from the 'About' section of the group and pointed out he was a hypocritical gatekeeping posh prick :-

Historical Materialism, as proper to a Marxist forum, cultivates international contacts, giving room to analysts from across the world, including non-Anglophone countries. We attempt to host a worldwide scrutiny as our contribution to a denunciation of capitalism worldwide.

And then moments later he not only deleted the whole thread, but looks like he has resigned his admin role on the group and also deleted his facebook account itself*.Which means that every thread (apart from a handful that were posted by others) on the HM group account has now vanished. Including all the announcements about books published, books about to be published, calls for translators, conferences, etc.. as he was pretty much the only person who was 'allowed' to create new threads/posts

what a precious cunt!

 

[butchersapron]

What a dick. Can't say i'm surprised to hear about this sort of behaviour though.

 

[articul8]

Are you sure? I can still see an HM facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/47751275485/

Maybe you've just been banned? (and the comments deleted?) - Not that it's justified

 

[butchersapron]

Are you sure? I can still see an HM facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/47751275485/

Maybe you've just been banned? (and the comments deleted?) - Not that it's justified

Why no posts for 5 days. The sebastianiastion of history.

 

[butchersapron]

Jesus but that thing is horrible. Hello i'm an academic, i now own marxism.

 

[butchersapron]

IIPPE Introductory Training Workshop in Marxist Political Economy
Following the success of previous Training Workshops, the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy will run a one-day introductory training workshop in Marxist Political Economy on 6 November 2013 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, the day before the start of the annual Historical Materialism Conference (also at SOAS). We are seeking an audience of engaged participants, including undergraduate, postgraduate students, junior academics and activists, who have a particular interest in acquainting themselves with the basic principles of Marxian political economy. As this is an introductory workshop, it will assume no prior knowledge and will be led by Simon Mohun and Alfredo Saad-Filho. If you wish to attend the workshop, please send your name and occupation to Elisa Van Waeyenberge <ew23@soas.ac.uk> before 15th of October 2013.

But we'd prefer it if you are a student or have a degree.

 

[articul8]

Historical Materialism has published enough grey-beards in the past and will continue to do so.

Well they're honest about it...

 

[butchersapron]

We are seeking an audience of engaged participants, including undergraduate, postgraduate students, junior academics and activist

 

[love detective]

Are you sure? I can still see an HM facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/47751275485/

Maybe you've just been banned? (and the comments deleted?) - Not that it's justified

I never said the group Itself was deleted

he deleted his personal facebook account which admined the HM group. he was also pretty much the only person who was allowed to post new content to it. So when he deleted his personal facebook account all the content went with it, which is why there's only a few posts left in the group whereas previously there were hundreds and hundreds of posts (most by Sebastian)

 

[butchersapron]

I'll post up the collection of HM books i have later. Then the journal. Take him down.

 

[butchersapron]

Loads of Hm book.

Sue me budgen.