Break Their Haughty Power

Break Their Haughty Power
"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common."
IWW Preamble, 1905

The following texts were written between 1973 and the present. Some of them, beginning in the late 1980s, were published in US journals such as Against the Current, New Politics, Critique, Collective Action Notes and Race Traitor; a few have appeared in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Swedish, Polish, Czech and Russian translations. Others are appearing in the Marx / Third Millennium series of Queequeg Publications. The majority, however, were consigned by circumstance to what Marx called "the gnawing critique of the mice." As such, they circulated only in xerox format to very limited circles of readers. I am posting them today, not because they necessarily possess any overarching coherence or because the evolution of one individual is of any particular importance. Rather, since different readers over the years have found different texts to be useful, I am using the new possibilities opened by the web to make them more generally available than they have been in my file cabinets.

Critique and comment are invited.

The Break Their Haughty Power website is affiliated with Queequeg Publications, which can be contacted at the e-mail address below.

Queequeg Publications has made available in book format some of the following texts. They include:

Loren Goldner: Ubu Saved From Drowning: Class Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 (2000). ISBN 0-970-03080-0. 113 pp. Available from the above address for $10 (US) plus postage. $1.50 for domestic first class; $1.30 for domestic book rate; $2.35 Canada; $6.50 international airmail; $4 airmail printed matter. Check or money order in US dollars only.

Loren Goldner: Vanguard of Retrogression: "Postmodern" Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital (2001). ISBN 0-9700308-1-9. 131 pp. Same postage rates apply. The articles marked with an asterisk (*) below are included this volume. (currently out of print)

Loren Goldner. Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man. Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer.
(2006). ISBN 0-9700-308-2-7. 291 p. Order directly from Amazon: click here.

Loren Goldner
lgoldner@alum.mit.edu

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What's New
A history of the Korean working class, 1987-2008, and an interview on the situation of left communism today with the Korean SaNoShin Group (April 2008)

The Situation of Left Communism Today: An Interview with the Korean SaNoShin Group (2008)

The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008 (2008)

Fictitous Capital for Beginners: Imperialism, "Anti-Imperialism," and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg (2007)
French Translation: Le Capital Fictif pour les Debutants: Imperialisme, "Anti-Imperialisme" et Pertinence Actuelle de Rosa Luxembourg

Left Communism and Trotskyism: A Roundtable (2007)

Max Eastman : One American Radical’s View of the "Bolshevization" of the American Revolutionary Movement and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky (2006)

1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation (2006)

Clausewitz on the Pampas: An Argentine Snapshot as Latin America Moves Leftward (2006)

Fictitious Capital and the Transition out of Capitalism (2005)

China In the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle (2005)

Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's: Casualized Workers' Strikes in Paris (2005)

The "Dollar" Crisis, and Us. Thoughts on Accelerating American Decline and a Radical Left Response (2004)
German Translation: Die Dollarkrise und die USA
French Translation: La crise du dollar et nous
Italian Translation: Gli USA e la crisi del dollaro

Marx, Hegel, Ricardo: The "Inverted World" In the Heart of the Critique of Political Economy (2004)
German Translation: Marx, Hegel, Ricardo: Die "verkehrte Welt" im Herzen der Kritik der politischen Oekonomie