Labor Of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form
by Michael Hardt
contributions by Antonio Negri
contributions by Antonio Negri
University of Minnesota Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-8166-2086-9
Library of Congress Classification HX73.H366 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.532
Paper: 978-0-8166-2086-9
Library of Congress Classification HX73.H366 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.532
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Dionysus
- Part I
- Chapter 1.
- Communism as Critique?
- Dinosaurs
- Communism
- Labor
- Subject
- Postmodern
- Marxisms
- Passages
- Chapter 2.
- Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State
- 1929 as a Fundamental Moment for a Periodization of the Modern State
- Keynes and the Period 1917 to 1929: Understanding the Impact of the October Revolution on the Structure of Capitalism
- Keynes's Shift from Politics to Science: 1929 and the Working Class within Capital
- Capitalist Reconstruction and the Social State
- Chapter 3.
- Labor in the Constitution
- I.
- Introduction to the Problematic
- The Constitutional Relevance of Labor
- Social Capital and Social Labor
- First Consequence: Labor as a Bourgeois Category
- Second Consequence : The Science of Capital
- The Rights State and the Social State
- II.
- Process of the Constitutionalization of Labor
- The Historical Process of the Constitutionalization of Labor-Power in Capitalist Development
- First Juridical Consequence: Crisis of the System of Sources
- Second Juridical Consequence: Crisis of the Theory of the Sovereignty of Law
- The Configuration of a Specific Mode of Production of Right in the Social State
- The Productive Source of the Social State
- III.
- Model of the Constitutionalization of Labor
- From the Constitutionalization of Labor to Its Model
- The General Theory of Right and the Construction of the Model
- The Conditions of the Concretization of the Model of Abstract Labor
- The Enlightenment of Capital
- The Social State
- IV.
- Critique of the Model of the Bourgeois Theory of Authority
- Ailments of the Dialectic
- Subordination in Social Capital
- The Social Organization of Capital
- From Contradictions to Antagonism
- In Guise of a Conclusion: Is a Workerist Critique Possible?
- Part II
- Chapter 4.
- Communist State Theory
- The Revisionist Tradition and Its Conception of the State
- Situating the Problem: Marxian Approaches
- The Contemporary State of Theory: Neo-Gramscian Variations
- Reproposition of the Problem: From Distribution to Production
- Developments of the Structural Analysis of the State: Mechanisms of Organization
- Developments of the Structural Analysis of the State: The State in the Theory of Crisis
- A Parenthesis: The Quibblings, Allusions, and Self-criticisms of Bourgeois Theory
- Repropositions of the Problem: State, Class Struggle, and Communist Transition
- Chapter 5.
- The State and Public Spending
- The Problematic as a Whole: Conditions of Interpretation and Real Conditions
- First Analytical Approach: Evaluative Elements of the Tendency toward the Social Unification of Productive Labor
- Second Analytical Approach: On Social Accumulation, State Management, and the Contradictions of the Capitalist Foundation of Legitimacy
- The Crisis of Public Spending in Italy
- The New Proletarian Subject in the Period of Crisis and Restructuring
- Further Considerations on the Accumulation and Legitimation Functions of Public Spending
- The Ideological Collapse of the Institutional Workers' Movement: Reformism and Repression
- Old Tactic for a New Strategy
- Part III
- Chapter 6.
- Postmodern Law and the Withering of Civil Society
- Rawls and the Revolution
- Postmodern Law and the Ghost of Labor in the Constitution
- The Genius of the System: Reflection and Equilibrium
- Weak Subjects and the Politics of Avoidance
- The Strong State of Neoliberalism: Crisis and Revolution in the 1980s
- Common Good and the Subject of Community
- The Autonomy of the State: Moral Welfare
- The Real Subsumption of Society in the State
- Chapter 7.
- Potentialities of a Constituent Power
- The Crisis of Real Socialism: A Space of Freedom
- Paradoxes of the Postmodern State
- The Social Bases of the Postmodern State and the Existing Prerequisites of Communism
- A Reflection on the Alternatives within Modernity
- Ontology and Constitution
- The Practical Critique of Violence
- The Normative Development and Consolidation of the Postmodern State
- The Illusions of Juridical Reformism
- Genealogy of the Constituent Subject
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
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