Spinoza and Class Struggle
2009; Routledge; Volume: 6; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14791420902867948
ISSN1479-4233
Autores Tópico(s)Political Theology and Sovereignty
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgements The author would like to thank Ronald Greene and Barbara Biesecker for help with this essay. Notes 1. Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (San Francisco: City Lights, 1988). Lawrence Grossberg, We Gotta Get Out of this Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture (New York: Routledge, 1992); Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002); Jenny Edbauer Rice, “The New ‘New’: Making a Case for Critical Affect Studies,” Quarterly Journal of Speech, 94 (2008): 200–12; Kristen Swenson, “Capitalizing on Affect: Viagra (In)Action,” Communication, Culture & Critique 1 (2008): 311–28. 2. Spinoza, Ethics (Oxford: University Press, 2000). 3. Cesare Casarino, “Surplus Common,” in In Praise of the Common: A Conversation on Philosophy and Politics, ed. Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), 1–39. Similarly, Casarino states that “there is only one surplus, which may effect and be effected in different ways” (22). 4. Spinoza, 128. 5. Spinoza, 89. 6. Deleuze, 124. 7. Spinoza, 130. See also A. Kiarina Kordela, Surplus: Spinoza, Lacan (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007). 8. Deleuze, 128. 9. Kordela, 1. 10. Kordela, 1. 11. Nicholas Thoburn, “Patterns of Production: Cultural Studies After Hegemony,” Theory, Culture and Society, 24 (2007): 79–94. Surplus as constitutive of material ontology does not necessarily lead to a politics based on a logic of articulation; but instead, as I will show, it permits a conceptual space to formulate a politics of composition. 12. Louis Althusser and Etienne Balibar, Reading Capital (London: Verso, 1979). See also Louis Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses,” in Lenin and Philosophy (New York: Monthly Review Press), 175. The essay on the ISA's includes the remarkable statement that “As is well known, the accusation of being in ideology only applies to others, never to oneself (unless one is really a Spinozist or a Marxist, which, in this matter, is to be exactly the same thing). Which amounts to saying that ideology has no outside (for itself), but at the same time that it is nothing but outside (for science and reality). Spinoza explained this completely two centuries before Marx, who practiced it without explaining it in detail. But let us leave this point, although it is heavy with consequences, consequences which are not just theoretical, but also directly political, since, for example, the whole theory of criticism and self-criticism, the golden rule of the Marxist-Leninist practice of the class struggle depends on it” (175). Althusser is referencing Spinoza's epistemological claim that truth is the standard of itself and of the false. I wish to thank Cesare Casarino for this insight. 13. Marx, Capital Vol. I (New York: Modern Library, 1906), 185–96. 14. Marx, 190. 15. Marx, 186–87. 16. Casarino, 22. 17. Ronald Walter Greene, “Rhetoric and Capitalism: Rhetorical Agency as Communicative Labor,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 37 (2004): 188–206. See also Ronald Walter Greene, “Orator Communist,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 39 (2006): 85–95. 18. Mario Tronti, Obreros y Capital (Madrid: Akal Ediciones, 2001), 269. All English translations of this work have been taken from Class Against Class, http://www.geocities.com/cordobakaf/tronti_struggle.html (accessed December 12, 2008). 19. In Tronti's words, the strategy of refusal includes “the working class refusal to present demands to capital, the total rejection of the whole trade union terrain, the refusal to limit the class relationship within a formal, legal, contractual form” (14). 20. For an elaboration of the critique of business unionism see Martin Glaberman, Punching Out & Other Writings (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 2002); Staughton Lynd, Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1992); Stan Weir, Singlejack Solidarity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004). 21. Todd Hamilton and Nate Holdren, “Compositional Power,” Turbulence: Ideas for Movement, 1, 2007, http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/compositional-power/ (accessed December 13, 2008). 22. Spinoza, 167. 23. Antonio Negri, The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003). Additional informationNotes on contributorsMatthew S. MayMatthew S. May is a Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
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