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.
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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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Reply to Robert Fitch's article from New Politics on the stock market
meltdown (posted April 2010)
Global Leveraged Buyout or the "Longest Boom in
Capitalist History"? A Reply to Robert Fitch (2009)
"Socialism in One Country" Before Stalin, and
the Origins of Reactionary "Anti-Imperialism": The Case of Turkey,
1917-1925 (2009)
Ssangyong Motor Strike in South Korea Ends
in
Defeat and Heavy Repression (2009)
General Perspectives on the Capitalist
Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia (2009)
Social Reproduction for Beginners: Bringing
Reality Back In (2008)
Video of a talk on fictitious capital given January 22, 2008, at The Whitechapel Centre, in London. Talk hosted by Mute (2008).
The Biggest 'October Surprise' Of All: A
World Capitalist Collapse (2008)
Italian Translation: L'immensa "sorpresa
d'ottobre" un tonfo del mondo capitalista
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)
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
Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency
and the Background to "Facing Reality" (2004)
Italian Translation: La tendenza
Johnson-Forest e il mondo d'oggi (2004)
Another Defeat for Workers in the U.S.:
The Los Angeles Supermarket Strike of 2003-2004 (2004)
French Translation: Notes sur une
nouvelle defaite des travailleurs americains (2004)
German Translation: Eine weitere
Niederlage fuer die ArbeiterInnen in den USA (2004)
Czech Translation: Poznámky k další
porážce dělníků v USA: losangelská stávka v supermarketech, 2003-2004
(2004)
Italian Translation: Note su
un'altra sconfitta dei lavoratori negli USA (2004)
Didn't See the Same Movie: Review of Max
Elbaum's Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin,
Mao, and Che (2003)
French Translation: Je n'ai pas vue le
meme film: Compte Rendu du Livre de Max Elbaum Revolution in the Air
(2004)
Reply to Some Comments/Questions About "Pause in the Crisis?" (2003)
Pause in the Crisis, or Beginning of a New
Boom? (2003)
French translation: Une pause dans la
crise ou l'amorce d'un nouveau boom économique?(2003)
German translation: Kommt ein neuer Boom
oder legt die Krise nur eine Pause ein? (2003)
Italian translation: Pausa nella crisi
o inizio di un nuovo boom? (2003)
Czech translation: USA: pouhá přestávka v
krizi, nebo začátek nového boomu? (2003)
A Hollowed Out Keynesian Warfare
State: American Democracy Today (2003)
French translation: Un "warfare
state" Keynésien vide de substance: L'évolution de la démocratie
américaine d'hier à aujourd'hui
Two Short Texts on Economic Crisis and War:
"Germany 1938/USA 2003" and
"First Inflation, Then Deflation" (2003)
German Translation: Zwei Kurze Texte Ueber
Oekonomische Krise und Krieg: "Deutschland 1938/USA 2003: Historische
Parallelen?" und "USA: Zuerst kommt die Inflation, dann die Deflation"
French Translation: L'Allemagne 1938,
Etats-Unis 2003: Paralleles Historiques?
Recent Class Struggles in the USA (2003)
Czech translation: Současný třídní boj v USA
(2003)
Once Again, On Fictitious Capital
(2003)
French translation: Sur le capital
fictif (version abrégée)
German translation: Über Fiktives
Kapital (gekürtzte Version)
Other Comrades' Comments on Aufheben Debate (2003)
Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression (2002)
Aufheben Critique of Ch. 1 of Remaking
of the American Working Class (2000)
Reply to the Aufheben Critique of Ch. 1 of Remaking of the American
Working Class (2002)
Appendix to Exchange with Aufheben: M.
Perelman, Fictitious Capital and Crisis Theory (1987)
De la dominación formal del capital
a la dominación real (1992) (2002)
Del Regeneracionismo a los Pactos de la
Moncloa (1992) (2002)
Facing Reality 45 Years Later: Critical Dialogue With CLR James/Grace
Lee/Pierre Chaulieu (2002)
“Čelem K Realitě” Po 45 Letech: Kritický
dialog s Jamesem/Leem/Chaulieuem (2002)
An American National Bolshevik: Book Review of
Kevin Coogan's Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the
Postwar Fascist International (2001)
Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal
War on the Social: Deconstruction and Deindustrialization (2001)(*)
Translation of Alain Tizon and François Lonchampt, "A Thousand Triumphant Ubus," in Votre Révolution n'est pas la mienne (1999) (2001)
Seattle: The First US Riot Against
Globalization? (2000)
French Translation: La Revolte US
Contre La "Globalization"? (2000)
"Total Capital" Rigor and International Liquidity: A Reply to Robert Brenner (1999)
International Liquidity and Class
Struggle: A First Approximation (1998)
French Translation: Crise de la
liquidité internationale et lutte des classes: Première approximation
(1998; 2001 trans.)
Italian Translation: Crisi della
liquidita internazionale e lotta fra le classi: Prima approssimazione
(1998; 2002 trans.)
The Remaking of the American Working
Class: Restructuring of Global Capital, Recomposition of Class Terrain
(1981; 1999; work in progress)
French Translation: La Classe
Ouvriere Americaine: Restructuration du capital global, Recomposition
du terrain de classe (2002)
Ubu Saved From Drowning: Class
Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-77
(2000)
Presentation / Critique of Eamonn Fingleton,
In Praise of Hard Industries: Why Manufacturing, Not the Information
Economy, Is the Key to Future Prosperity (1999) (1999)
Race, Class and the Crisis of the Bourgeois Ego in the Work of Herman Melville (1998)
Book Review: Ngo Van, Vietnam, 1920-1945 (1997)
Class Struggle In The Unemployment
Capital of Europe: Lower Andalucia, 1995-1996 (1996)
French Translation: Lutte de Classes en
Basse Andalousie, 1995-1996 (1996)
Spanish Translation: Lucha de
Clases en Baja Andalucia, 1995-1996 (1996)
Communism is the Material Human Community:
Amadeo Bordiga Today (1991)
German Translation: Kommunismus ist
die materielle menschliche Gemeinschaft: Amadeo Bordiga heute
French Translation: Le Communisme est
la Communauté Materielle Humaine: Amadeo Bordiga et notre temps
Italian Translation: Il Comunismo è
la Comunità Materiale Umana: Amadeo Bordiga Oggi
Czech Translation: Komunismus jako
materiální lidské společenství: Amadeo Bordiga dnes
Russian Translation: КОММУНИЗМ:
МАТЕРИАЛЬНОЕ СООБЩЕСТВО ЛЮДЕЙ: Амадео Бордига и современность
Korean Translation: 물질적인 인간공동체를: 향하여:
오늘날의아마데오보르디가
Preface to the Swedish edition (2002)
of Communism Is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
(2002)
Swedish Translation: Kommunismen ar den
materiella manskliga gemenskapen
Class Struggle Beyond Unionism: Boston-Area
Public Employees Ferment, 1981-1982: An Interview With Scott McGuire
(1993)
Portuguese Translation: Movimento dos
Trabalhadores Publicos da Area de Boston, 1981-1982
The 150th Anniversary of the Communist
Manifesto (1997)
Czech Translation: 150 let po
Komunistickim manifestu (1997)
Race and the Enlightenment, Part I: From
Anti-Semitism to White Supremacy (1997)(*)
French Translation: Le concept de
race et le siecle des Lumieres: De l'antisemitisme a la suprematie des
Blancs 1492-1676
Race and the Enlightenment, Part II: The
Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond (1999)(*)
The Renaissance and Rationality: The
Status of the Enlightenment Today (1995)(*)
Russian translation: Ренессанс и
рациональность: Статус Просвещения сегодня (2004)
Multiculturalism or World Culture?
On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown (1993)(*)
French translation: Multiculturalisme
ou Culture Mondiale? Sur une réponse de "gauche" au déclin social actuel
(1993)
Italian translation: Multiculturalismo
o Cultura Mondiale? Su una Riposta di "Sinistra" all'attuale Declino
Sociale (1993, 2002)
Polish translation: Europocentryzm,
wielokulturowość czy kultura światowa? (2003)
The Nazis and Deconstruction: Jean-Pierre
Faye's Demolition of Derrida (1993)(*)
German Translation: Die Nazis und die
Dekonstruktion: Jean-Pierre Fayes Abriß von Derrida (1993)
Marxism and the Crisis of Scientific
Ideology (1983; 1992)(*)
German Translation: Marxismus und die
Kritik der Wissenschaft
Post-Modernism Meets the IMF: The Case of Poland (1990)(*)
The Universality of Marx (1989)(*)
German Translation: Marx und
Universalität
American Primitive in Red, Black and White:
Race and Class in US History (1989)
Book Review: A Critique of Kim Moody's An
Injury to All (1989)
Short History of the World Workers'
Movement from Lassalle to Neo-Liberalism (1988)
Czech Translation: Stručné dějiny
světového hnutí dělnické třídy od Lassalla po neoliberalismus:
Deformující hegemonie neproduktivních středních vrstev (1988;
trans. 2001)
Book Review on 1968: Hamon and Rotman, Génération (1988)
Afro-Anabaptist-Indian Fusion: The Roots
of American Radicalism (1987)(*)
French Translation: La fusion
afro-indiano-anabaptiste: Les sources du radicalisme américaine
(2002)
On The Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political
Party in the U.S., 1900-1945 (1983; footnotes updated 2002)
From National Bolshevism to Ecology (1980)(*)
History and Realization of the Material Imagination (1979)(*)
Their Methodology and Ours (1977)
Conjuncture: World Capitalism Since the
Collapse of the Bretton Woods System (1976)
MISCELLANEOUS BOOK REVIEWS
Book Review: Joao Bernardo, Poder e
Dinheiro, 3 vols. Porto 1995-2002.
Book Review: Moishe Postone's Dialect of
the Abstract and the Abstract (2005)
Book Review: Joao Bernardo. Labirintos do
Fascismo. Na Encruzilhada da Ordem e da Revolta. (2003)
Book Review: Franklin Rosemont. Joe Hill. The
IWW & the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture.
(2003)
German Translation: Buchbesprechung.
Franklin Rosemont/Joe Hill
Italian Translation: Recensione. Franklin
Rosemont/Joe Hill.
French Translation: Compte rendu,
Franklin Rosemont/Joe Hill
Book Review: Gugenberg/Schweidlenke on New Age, Fascism, Ecologism (1987)
Book Review: Ernst Bloch, Principle of Hope (1986)
Book Review: Peter Bergmann, Nietzsche: The Last Antipolitical German (1987)
Book Review: Lenni Brenner, The Lesser Evil (1989)
Book Review: Sharon Zukin, Loft Living (1989)
Book Review: Pierre Broue, Trotsky (1989)
Book Review: Joseph Chytry, The Aesthetic State (1989)
Book Review: Paul Rabinow, French Modern (1989)
Book Review: Joyce Kolko, Restructuring the World Economy (1988)
Book Review: T.J. Clark / Jerrold Seigel, Modernism as Vanguard of Consumption: Two Views (1986)