I meant in the previous message to forward the following, to reduce message clutter, in case it hasn't been seen from other lists.

Reading capital now seems to open up all sorts of opportunities.  On Saturday I was walking around the East India Docks in London, now a nature reserve.  I can remember when this was docks, a power station, and much pre post modernist industry, now all gone.

I lived in that area for about ten years, which is now history and has no record.

The Tory Agenda, for that is what started all these threads, didn't in the election as I remember it, include the London Docklands Development Corporation, about which we need history too.  What came to my hand most easily is the new Pevsner, which is no help at all.

Building a theory studio is going to include matters such as LRDC and how we built campaigns during that time, how the unions organised, what in retrospect  was achieved, what could and should have been done, what has been learned?

The hard bit of Marx I always found was not in explaining the crisis, but the theory of crisis, in particular the organic composition of capital and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, in about 20 seconds as you didn't usually have much longer.

Then I remember working out what I had as thirteen counterveiling tendencies which might move or still crisis as things didn't appear to be working according to plan.  Reading Capital later, I found to my joy that Marx had 13 counterveiling tendencies, no one had told me about that.  Then I had to try to work out whether mine were the same as his, what had changed in the forces of production and the social relations since then, which still applied, and could I apply Occam's Razor.

Those were the days.

The Burns review I mentioned in the earlier post interestingly points to forces of production and social relations as key to The (UC) Marxist theory of history, so now we also have applied history in teh East India Docks.

This leads to another matter of phKO, but enough notes for a Monday morning.  I still haven't decided where to put the Theory Studio (UC).


Reading the rest of the message below I see this mail client seems to have done all sorts of injustice to the html code in the earlier.  What it will look like on other browserrs or clients I don't know?


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From: [log in to unmask] [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sébastien Budgen [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: [historicalmaterialism] Events in London around Capital and the Future of Capitalism

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Date: 2009/9/29
Subject: King's College London Reading Capital Society
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King's College London Reading Capital Society

September 29th 2009
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What are the origins of the current economic crisis? What is the future for capitalism? Mainstream neo-liberal economics presents us with very few satisfactory answers to these questions. For this reason many people are now looking again at the works of Karl Marx and his critique of capitalism.

The Reading Capital Movement is a fortnightly seminar organised by students discussing the main issues & themes raised in Karl Marx’s work Das Kapital.

It brings together students from across a range of disciplines and intellectual backgrounds to introduce and debate ideas about the work.

The group is open to anyone with an interest in finding out more about Marx's work.

So welcome to all those who've just joined us and welcome back to those who were involved last year. We had a very successful launch last January of over 60 people and a group of about 20 of us began reading and discussing throughout the second semester.

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1) Re-launch with Ben Fine:
This year the group is very lucky to be re-launching with a talk by Prof. Ben Fine from SOAS (co-author of "Marx's 'Capital'") on:

Why read Capital? Marx in the 21st Century

Tuesday Oct. 13th 2009
6pm

Room 2.42
F-WB Building
Waterloo Campus

King's College London

All welcome - no matter whether you are simply interested in Marx or have some tough questions about Marxist economics.

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2) Join Reading Capital @ KCLSU:

Also please join the society officially at:
http://www.kclsu.org/society.asp?itemid=964&itemTitle=Reading+Capital&section=295&sectionTitle=Societies+List


This will enable us to keep booking meetings, getting great speakers and to develop a lending library that will be a fantastic resource for the group.

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3) The Future of Capitalism:

We are very pleased to be able to announce that Reading Capital will be co-hosting a debate on the Future of Capitalism with the KCL Business Club.

Martin Wolf (chief economic commentator, Financial Times) will be debating Alex Callinicos (author of 'Revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx' & Prof. European Studies at KCL) about the roots of the current economic crisis and the prospects for capitalism as a whole.

Put the details in your diary now:

The Future of Capitalism.
A Public Debate
Alex Callinicos & Martin Wolf

Monday 2nd November
6:30pm
Great Hall
King's College, London

We will send out more details closer to the event.

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And finally....

The KCL Reading Capital group was inspired by a Reading Group initiated by the Marxist geographer David Harvey at CUNY (New York) – videos of these seminars can be seen online at www.davidharvey.org<http://www.davidharvey.org/>

KCL Reading Capital



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