Capital 150: Marx’s ‘Capital’ Today Conference

by cominsitu

The Department of European and International Studies (School of Politics & Economics, King’s College London), along with the www.thenextrecession.wordpress.com blog, organised a major international conference – titled Capital.150: Marx’s ‘Capital’ Today – to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Karl Marx’s text Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. The conference took place on 19-20 September, 2017.

It attracted from around the world some of the leading scholars and research networks in the field. There were lively debates among speakers and audience on the roots of the global economic and financial crisis, contemporary imperialism, and the prospects of global capitalism. David Harvey and Michael Roberts debated how to map the terrain of anti-capitalist struggles in the plenary of the evening of September 19. The same topic re-emerged throughout the conference as participants investigated the nature of the present political conjuncture and the prospects for the labour movement.

If you weren’t able to attend the Capital.150 conference, all of the sessions are available to watch on Youtube at the links below:

Session One – Crises (https://youtu.be/MFashLEwL4I)

• Guglielmo Carchedi (University of Amsterdam, author of Frontiers of Political Economy and Behind the Crisis http://www.brill.com/behind-crisis ; in absentia);
• Rolf Hecker (Director of the Berliner Verein zur Förderung der MEGA-Edition and editor of Marx’s Books of Crisis, MEGAIV/14);
• Paul Mattick Jr (Adelphi University, author of forthcoming Theory as Critique: Essays on Capital http://www.adelphi.edu/faculty/profiles/profile.php?PID=0199 );
• Ben Fine (SOAS, co-author of Marx’s Capital https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745336978/marxs-capital-sixth-edition/ );

Session Two – Imperialism (https://youtu.be/XT_3BnU5u70)

• Marcelo Dias Carcanholo (Universidade Federal Fluminense and President of Brazilian Society of Political Economy (SEP), author of Dependencia, superexplotación del trabajo y crisis http://www.maiaediciones.com/libro.php?l=409# );
• Tony Norfield (author of The City https://www.versobooks.com/books/2457-the-city );
•  Raquel Varela (Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, author of História do Povo na Revolução Portuguesa 1974-1975 )

Session Three – Mapping the Terrain of Anti-Capitalist Struggles(https://youtu.be/ExFFn9z47uQ)

• David Harvey (CUNY Graduate Center, author of The Limits to Capital and A Commentary on Marx’s Capital http://davidharvey.org/ );
• Michael Roberts (blogs at www.thenextrecession.wordpress.com, author of The Long Depression https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/693-the-long-depression );

 Session Four – The Future of Capital (https://youtu.be/fioaiBUz-nc)

• Alex Callinicos (KCL, author of Deciphering Capital );
• Hannah Holleman (Amherst College, author of a number of studies in Ecological Marxism https://www.amherst.edu/people/facstaff/hholleman );
• Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College, author of Money and Totality http://www.brill.com/products/book/money-and-totality );
• Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, author of a number of studies on Marx, technology, and crises https://ideas.repec.org/e/pal173.html );

 Session Five – Labour and Beyond (https://youtu.be/cZSccinSMp8)

• Tithi Bhattacharya (Purdue University, editor of Social Reproduction Theory https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745399881/social-reproduction-theory/ );
• Michael Heinrich (member of editorial board of Prokla, author An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Marx’s Capital, and of a forthcoming multi-volume biography of Marx);
• Lucia Pradella (KCL, author of L’attualità del Capitale and Globalization and the Critique of Political Economy https://www.routledge.com/Globalization-and-the-Critique-of-Political-Economy-New-Insights-from/Pradella/p/book/9780415744102 );
• Beverly Silver (Johns Hopkins University, author of Forces of Labour https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/forces-of-labor/24F7A6E01DA0617159FCCC7A6F68FC40 )

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