CAPITAL.150: MARX’S CAPITAL TODAY
- London WC1E 7HY, Malet Street, Student Central (formerly ULU)
- 19-20 September
- Contact: capital150conference@gmail.com
- Registration: http://bit.ly/2uhukxO
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TUESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
Crises (11am–1:30pm)
- Mino Carchedi – The old is dying and the new cannot be born: the exhaustion of the present phase of capitalist development
- Rolf Hecker – Marx’s critique of capitalism during the 1857 crisis
- Paul Mattick jr – Crisis: abstraction and reality
- Ben Fine, discussant
Imperialism (2:30–5pm)
- Marcelo Dias Carcanholo, Dependency, super-exploitation of labour and crisis – an interpretation from Marx
- Tony Norfield, Das Kapital, finance, and imperialism
- Raquel Varela (& Marcelo Badaró Mattos), Primitive accumulation in Das Kapital
Mapping the terrain of anti-capitalist struggles (6–8pm)
- David Harvey, Perspectives from the Circulation of Capital
- Michael Roberts, Perspectives from the Accumulation of Capital
WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
The future of capital (10am–12:30noon)
- Alex Callinicos, Continuing Capital in the face of the present
- Hannah Holleman, Capital and socio-ecological revolution
- Fred Moseley, The rate of profit and the future of US capitalism
- Eduardo Motta Albuquerque, Technological revolutions and changes in the centre-periphery divide
Labour and beyond (1:30-4pm)
- Tithi Bhattacharya, Social reproduction theory: conceiving capital as social relation
- Michael Heinrich, Communism in Marx’s Capital
- Lucia Pradella, Marx’s Capital and the power of labour: imperialism, migration, and workers’ struggles
- Beverly Silver, Marx’s general law of capital accumulation and the making and remaking of the global reserve army of labour
