Bill Scheuerman is the James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Bill’s primary research and teaching interests are in modern political thought, German political thought, democratic theory, legal theory, and international thought. His most recent books… Continue Reading
Clara Maier is a political theorist and historian of political thought at Columbia University. She received her PhD from Cambridge University in 2017 and has taught in Cambridge and Berlin before joining Columbia’s political science department. Her current research is focused on legal… Continue Reading
Frieda Ekotto is the Lorna Goodison Collegiate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan. As an intellectual historian and philosopher with areas of expertise in 20th and 21st-century Anglophone and Francophone… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt I was originally attracted to Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) because it is one of the largest social movements in Latin America, according to many reports, and places cooperation and forms of cooperative production at the… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar [1] This is one of Marx’s most celebrated sentences, which is to be found towards the end of Chapter 24 of section 7 in Capital, Volume One (first published in 1867) [ed note: Chapter 32 of section 8… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar “The expropriators are expropriated”: This is one of Marx’s most celebrated sentences, which is to be found towards the end of the chapter on « The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation », Chapter 32 of section 8… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “The cooperative factories run by workers themselves are, within the old form, the first examples of the emergence of a new form, even though they naturally reproduce in all cases, in their present organization, all the… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt In Chapter 13 of Capital, Volume I, Marx sketches a theory of cooperation that resonates well with what I called “coöpower” in my book Cooperation. Marx defines the term “co-operation,” drawing on the work of the… Continue Reading