Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 09:56:28 +1000
From: sjwright-AT-vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au (Steve Wright)
Subject: Re: autovalorization


Between them, Jerry, Harry and Bryan in their discussion of
self-valorization have raised a whole series of other questions that I
continue to ponder:

1) What *is* class consciousness? What place - if any - does it have within
class struggle?

2) What *concrete* examples are there of self-valorization? Do they pertain
only to particular groups? Do they suggest, as some have argued (e.g. Paolo
Virno and other advocates of "exodus") that the struggle against capital
and the state is more and more "outside and against" the latter, whereas
once (as at least some of us have argued) it was "inside and against"? And
is the tendency one wherein the impetus is, as Harry points it, towards
"the defeat of capital but not the construction of a *unified* new social
order" (my emphasis)?

3) Damn, there was another one, but I got distracted, and now I can't
remember . . .

In terms of some of the themes laid out when we started up this list, the
questions which arise around the utility or otherwise of notions like
"self-valorization" are, I think, pertinent to how we try to connect
analyses of class composition to the critique of political economy i.e. to
connect what is happening within the class to the dynamics of capitalism as
a whole (and since I imagine there are at least a few people on this list
who may be uncomfortable with this way of putting it, it would be useful to
hear their thoughts on the matter too).

Steve

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