By Bernard E. Harcourt The debate within the Frankfurt School over the nature and character of German National Socialism in the early 1940s—especially between Friedrich Pollock’s diagnosis of a new stage of capitalism, which he called “state capitalism,” and Franz… Continue Reading
By Martin Saar In my presentation, I will develop four points—four perspectives on how to read these rather diverse texts by Friedrich Pollock, Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, and Theodor W. Adorno, in order to shed some light on the question… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “In the last century it became evident that a society based on slave labor could not exist side by side with one organized on the principle of free labor. The same holds true in our… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In Abolition Democracy 6/13, our seminar turns to the question of the abolition of capital and capitalism. Our challenge is to reimagine and resituate contemporary social movements for the abolition of capital within the framework of… Continue Reading