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GegenStandpunkt: English Dansk Deutsch English Español Français Italiano Русский GegenStandpunktMünchen / Munich Introduction Articles Books Contact An introduction to Marxist political economy1.The rich societies of the West are full of poverty. In these times of virtually fully automatic production, the majority of people still have to struggle for a sufficient income. By far not everyone achieves enough success to live comfortably above the subsistence level; in fact quite a few are entirely excluded from the existing means of consumption.These same well-organized democracies are full of violence — private and public violence toward those within the country, as well as toward those on the outside. People become victims of government decisions — and if they protest or try to resist, the police at a minimum take notice, and sometimes really come and take care of them. Others are sent to kill and die in the wars that always seem to ‘break out.’ Still others become victims of unauthorized forms of acquisitiveness or aggression by their frustrated fellow citizens. This is all the more true for the less successful countries participating in the global market economy. Outside the successful centers of democratic capitalism, poverty and violence, repression and neglect are everyday normality. And it doesn’t take a Marxist to discover and condemn this: everybody already does it — clergy of every stripe, poets, humanists, civil rights activists, and even the politicians who manage and proudly assume responsibility for these conditions.2.However, no sooner do those affected, or their politicalguardians, complain about one of the familiar societal evils than they spout theirconviction that this evil has nothing to do with, and couldn’t possibly haveanything to do with, the social system in which this evil appears. They aresure that what’s continually bothering them is a corruption of the system thatwould never take place if the state and economy functioned the way theyshould. When workers are let go, they moan about alleged mismanagement; when the government slashes pensions and social welfare, those affected protestagainst a clumsy, unnecessary, and ultimately counterproductivepolicy. When wretched creatures are exploited for a few dollars an hour, excessiveprivate avarice is seen to be at work; when hoodlums and the down-and-outknock each other off, public opinion discovers a decline in their morals; and when the government once more finds war necessary, people talk of a failureof politics.This kind of criticism is ‘responsible’ and ‘respectable,’ because as a matter of course, it never impugns the principles of ‘our’ economy, form of government and way of life. Really, this criticism sticks to the principle that protest against any kind of nasty social condition is invalid unless it expresses the belief that the deplored evil is a malfunction of the system, not a necessary component of it. In the face of each and every negative experience, people dogmatically maintain the belief in the‘true’ and ‘lofty’ principles of the system; the bad experience is not to be taken as an objection.3.By and large, Marxist critique focuses on phenomena thebourgeois world is already familiar with and deplores as evil. But communists don’tlet themselves be tied down to the dogmatism of constructive criticism, to apartisanship set from the outset on democracy and market economy. Quite to thecontrary, we offer and demand the detachment necessary for an objectiveinvestigation of the causes of the evils deplored on all sides — because a fightthat doesn’t aim toward the elimination of the causes is simply not serious.Therefore, we also know that the hardship of those affectedoffers no guidance as to just what has to do with eliminating this hardship. Theirprotest considers the most awful, the most onerous situations as wrongs to be righted,in order that the casualties can better cope with the conditions that lead to thesehardships. This kind of protest is a sort of supplication, and an illusory oneat that. From this it follows that solidarity with the ones going to the dogsdoes not consist in supporting their cries for help and bolstering theirmarches for alms, but rather in finding out what causes their hardships and —even in the face of the victims’ opposition — insisting on fighting for theelimination of these causes.4.The Marxist critique of political economy, “scientific socialism,”explains how and why the social evils the whole world deplores — unemploymentand neglect, lousy wages and poverty, violence and war — are not accidentalmalfunctions. Rather, they are damned necessary given ‘our’ socialsystem of private property; and given states that found their continuedexistence on the success of private enrichment, and compete with all theireconomic, political and military might against each other to acquire global,capitalistic wealth. Every article and book from GegenStandpunkt Publishersfurnishes yet another proof.An invitationYou’ve got questions?We know that our analyses of capitalism, state and imperialism, aspresented in the articles and books below, can be rough going. The samecan be said of Marx’ Capital, or of any new thinking. It’salways easier to digest the old ideas and familiar prejudices. So, tohelp out, we’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse. Write to the GegenStandpunkteditors at with your questions and comments, and we really will reply.We have answers! Introduction Articles Books Contact Recent additionsPsychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness Part III. From failure to self-destruction — The realm of psychology Chapter 9: Character Life is a struggle How one forms a character A character at work Alternatives of dissimulation: Good and bad character Ignorance as knowledge of human nature Characterology based on the ideal of fitness for real life October 12, 2008The State of the World in 2007The Reality of a Multipolar World OrderSeptember 17, 2008All other articles onlineIs Communism Really Dead?April 5, 2008Protest against the domestic andoverseas course of warThe “Other America” — Worthy of a SuperpowerMarch 18, 2008America’s EnemiesOctober 26, 2007“Jobs” — “Globalization” — “Competitiveness” … Some remarks about the capitalistic relation betweenWork and WealthSeptember 26, 2007Diplomacy — The Tool of Competition between States August 4, 2007 The Nobel Peace Prize for a banker: Business is help, credit a human right April 12, 2007 The War On Iraq and the Americanization of International Law April 1, 2007 Freedom on the March, Revolution by Ballot America Bestows Free Elections on the World January 24, 2007 Letter to the Editors Why we don’t make a pitch for communism with a “well thought-out concept ofa planned economy” January 19, 2007 Great Britain — the pioneer of modern social reforms A model lesson on the magic formula for how to use wages and the social welfare budget as weapons in global competition September 24, 2006 Democracy, free enterprise, human rights and women’s rights for the ‘Middle East’ The World Power Wants to Make the World a Better Place January 18, 2006 How free enterprise in New Orleans has operated once again September 17, 2005 Social policy as a throwaway campaign — or: There must be an end to the troubles state and capital are having with their national sites Europe Needs “Structural Reforms” June 12, 2005 News from the “New Economy” Advantages and Disadvantages of Speculating on the Total Market June 10, 2005 On the mores of the American nation: People and leaders united in struggle against evil in the world Remarks on the Patriotism of an Imperialistically Successful Nation June 7, 2005 The Crisis in Argentina A Case of Innovative Dollar Imperialism June 5, 2005 International outcry over torture in American military prisons Morality in Wartime and its Use as a Weapon of Critique June 2, 2005 The American Antiterror War: The Home Front May 31, 2005 Letter to the Editors Why are many people in developing countries poor? July 12, 2004 The WTO Conference in Seattle — “failed” The Nations’ Struggle for the Wealth of the World and its Latest Battlefields June 18, 2004 Currency and its Value The Competition of Nations for the Wealth of the World December 4, 2003 America’s Crusade Against Terror — Second Stage: War on Iraq Bringing the World into Line Undermines the “Free West” July 3, 2003 War against Saddam The Latest Contributions to the Never-Ending Debate over Just Wars and Unjustified Violence in World Politics May 8, 2003 The President of the United States of America Proudly Presents: The Official Propaganda for a New Sort of World War February 10, 2003 The myth of “Globalization” The World Market as an Objective Constraint December 23, 2002 America — “Fighting the war on terrorism on the domestic front” September 29, 2002 Terror against America and the American War against Terror An Attack Changes the World — or Does it Really? August 14, 2002 On the political economy of oil A Strategic Good and its Price March 19, 2002 Seattle, Melbourne, Prague Global action against the phantom known as “Globalization” May 29, 2001 American Power and its Use A. The global management of force November 6,1997 B. Global capitalism December 18, 2000 The Kursk has Sunken How to Reap Political Benefits from a Submarine’s Sinking October 17, 2000 The Shameless Charm of Imperialism The American President Speaks Before the Duma and Warmly Invites Russia to Subordinate Itself under the American World Order October 17, 2000 News from Moscow Vladimir Putin Makes a Strong Case for National Renewal October 17, 2000 Further advances toward the “new world order” NATO Bombs Yugoslavia to Smithereens June 28, 1999 General Pinochet Arrested A Didactic Drama About the Relationship Between Politics, Law, and Morals March 23, 1999 Three remarks on the “crisis in Japan” February 8, 1999 Thailand The ups and downs of an “emerging market” and their basis in a worldwide over-accumulation January 21, 1999 Northern Ireland A British colonial heritage that means nothing but trouble February 24, 1997 Introduction Articles Books Contact Books online The Democratic State Critique of Bourgeois Sovereignty June 1, 1996 From 1917 to PerestroikaThe Victory of Morality over Socialismmultiple pages print (209 KB)January 7, 2008 Psychology of the Private Individual Critique of Bourgeois Consciousness chapters 1–9 October 12, 2008 Introduction Articles Books Contact ContactWrite to the GegenStandpunkt editors at. |
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