Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 03:11:47 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: AUT: Grundrisse/MBM


Steve wrote:
 
> Certainly one question I hope we can address is one raised in a phone
> conversation a few days ago by a friend here in Melbourne: how useful (and
> how verifiable) is the workerist/autonomist notion that capital's action
> can be understood as *responses/reflexes* to working class initiative -
> both on the micro level, and in terms of broad historical sweep (e.g. the
> struggles of the sixties/seventies evoke the crisis/restructuring of the
> seventies onwards)?

Well ... but the converse could be said as well. I.e. (many) working class
actions can be understood as responses/reflexes to initiatives undertaken
by the capitalist class. Don't you agree?

Indeed, if we are to examine on a case-by-case basis the
working-class "initiatives" in the last decade, we can see that many of
those  "initiatives" are "defensive" in nature. E.g. the
responses to the "concessions movement" of the 1980's and the struggle
internationally against neo-liberal austerity policies in the 1990's.

Jerry



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