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; some have appeared in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Swedish, Polish, Lithuanian, Czech, Romanian, Russian, Greek and Turkish 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. Order directly from Amazon: click
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Loren Goldner: Vanguard of Retrogression: "Postmodern"
Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital (2001). ISBN
0-9700308-1-9. 131 pp. Order directly from Amazon: click
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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.
Libri e saggi di Loren Goldner in italiano: Capitale fittizio e crisi del capitalismo,
L'Avanguardia della regressione, Il "socialismo in un solo paese" prima
di Stalin e le origini dell'"anti-imperialismo" reazionario. Il caso
della Turchia (1917-1925), L'immensa sorpresa di ottobre: Un collasso
de mondo capitalista alle Edizioni
PonSin
Mor
Livre de Loren Goldner en francais: Nous vivrons la revolution. Revolution in
our lifetime. (tome 1). Editions Ni patrie
ni frontieres
Loren Goldner
lgoldner@alum.mit.edu
Fuentes autoritarias y fascistas de la epoca entreguerras de una ideología reaccionaria:
The Demise of Andy Stern and the Question of
Unions in Contemporary Capitalism (2010)
Korean Translation: 앤
디스턴의 종말과 현 자본주의 사회의
노동조합 문제
The Historical Moment That Produced Us
(2010)
German Translation: Der
historische Moment, der uns hervorgebracht hat
Korean Translation: ᅮ리를
만들어낸 역사적 수
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)
Italian translation: Il
"socialismo in un solo paese" prima di Stalin et le origini dell
"anti-imperialismo" reazionario: il caso della Turquia 1917-1925: Il
caso della Turchia 1917-1925
Ssangyong Motor Strike in South Korea
Ends in Defeat and Heavy Repression (2009)
Russian
Translation: Забастовка на Ссангйонг Моторс в Южной Корее
завершилась поражением и жесткими репрессиями
Turkish
Translation:
Güney Kore’de Ssangyong Motor grevi yoğun baskı altında yenilgi ile
sona erdi
French Translation:
La grève de Ssangyong Motors en Corée du Sud : défaite et dure
répression
German Translation: Der
Streik
bei
Ssangyong
Motors
in
Südkorea
endet
mit
einer
Niederlage
und
heftiger
Repression
Italian Translation: Lo
sciopero
alla
Ssangyong
Coreana
di
fronte
a
un
muro
Korean Translation: 한국의
쌍용자동차 파업이 패배와 강력한 탄압으로 끝을 맺다
General Perspectives on the Capitalist
Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia (2009)
Social Reproduction for Beginners:
Bringing Reality Back In (2008)
Italian Translation: La riproduzione
sociale per i principianti: riportandoci al mondo reale
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
Polish Translation: Zmierzch
systemu. Światowy krach kapitalistyczny
Rumanian Translation: Cea
mai mare „surprizæ din octombrie“: o præbuøire în capitalismul mondial
The Situation of Left Communism Today: An
Interview with the Korean SaNoShin Group (2008)
Korean Translation: 좌
익공산주
의의 현황 : 로렌
골드너와의 대담
The Korean Working Class: From Mass Strike
to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2008 (2008)
French Translation: La
classe ouvrière coréenne : de la grève de masse à la précarisation et
au reflux, 1987-2007
Czech Translation: Dělnická
třída
v
Koreji:
od
masové
stávky
k
prekarizaci[1]
a
ústupu
(1987–2007)
Italian Translation: La
classe lavoratrice coreana: dagli scioperi di massa alla
precarizzazione ed alla sconfitta, 1987-2007
Fictitious 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
Greek
Translation:
Το
Πλασματικό
Κεφάλαιο
για
Αρχάριους1
Ιμπεριαλισμός,
“Αντιιμπεριαλισμός”,
και
η
διαρκής
επικαιρότητα της Ρόζας Λούξεμπουργκ
Italian Translation: Il
capitale
fittizion
per
principiani.
Imperialismo,
antimperialismo
e
attualita
permanente
di
Rosa
Luxemburg
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)
Italian Translation:
Max Eastman: un punto di vista radical riguardo alla
"bolschevizzazione" del movimento rivoluzionario americano e un
ritratto, dimenticato e indimenticabile, di Trotsky
1973 Redux?: Continuity and Discontinuity
in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation (2006)
Italian Translation: Ritorno
al
1973?:
continuita
e
discontinuita
nel
declino
dell'accumulazione
mondiale
fondata
sul
dollaro
French Translation:
Continuité et
Discontinuité dans le Déclin de l'Accumulation Mondiale Centrée sur le
Dollar
German Translation:
Kontinuitäten
und Brüche im Niedergang der Dollar-zentrierten Weltakkumulation
Clausewitz on the Pampas: An Argentine
Snapshot as Latin America Moves Leftward (2006)
Italian Translation: Clausewitz
nella
Pampa:
un'instantanea
argentina
mentre
l'America
Latina
si
sposta
a
sinistra
Fictitious Capital and the Transition out
of Capitalism (2005)
Italian Translation: Il Capitale
Fittizio e la Transizione fuori del Capitalismo
China In the Contemporary World Dynamic of
Accumulation and Class Struggle (2005)
Czech Translation:
Čína v současné světové
dynamice akumulace a třídního
boje jako
výzva pro radikální levici
Italian Translation: La
Cina
nel
Mondo
Contemporaneo:
Dinamica
dell'accumulazione
e
lotta
di
classe
Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's:
Casualized Workers' Strikes in Paris (2005)
French Translation: Marx
et
Makhno
a
la
Rencontre
de
McDonald's
Polish Translation:
Jak Marx i Machno
spotkali się z McDonald’sem
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
An Insect Collector Puts His Hand In A
Hornet's Nest: Christophe Bourseiller's Coffee-Table Book on the
Ultra-Left (2004)
French Translation: Note
sur
L’histoire
générale
de
l’ultra-gauche
de
Christophe
Bourseiller
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
Italian translation: Un Warfare State
Keynesiano Vuoto di Sostanza
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)
Production or Reproduction?: Against a
Reductionist Reading of Capital In The Left Milieu, and
Elsewhere (2002)
Italian Translation: Produzione
o
Riproduzione?
Contro
una
interpretazione
riduzionista
del
Capitale
nell'ambito della sinistra e altrove
Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression
(2002)
Italian Translation: Capitale
Fittizio, Regressione Reale
Romanian Translation: Capital fictiv,
regres real
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)(*)
Italian Translation: L'Ontologia
della
'Differenza'
e
la
Guerra
Neoliberista
contro
il
Sociale.
Deconstruzione
e
desindustrializzasione
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)
Italian Translation: Seattle:
La
rivolta
USA
contro
la
globalizzazione?
"Total Capital" Rigor and International
Liquidity: A Reply to Robert Brenner (1999)
Italian Translation: Rigore su
"Capitale Totale: e Liquidita Internazaionale: Una replica a Robert
Brenner
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.)
Romanian Translation: Criza
internationala de lichiditi si lupta de clasa
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)
Italian Translation: La
classe operaia americana: Ristrutturazione del capitale complessivo,
ricomposizione del terreno di classe
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)
Greek Translation: Ο
ΚΟΜΜΟΥΝΙΣΜΟΣ
ΕΙΝΑΙ
Η
ΥΛΙΚΗ
ΑΝΘΡΩΠΙΝΗ
ΚΟΙΝΟΤΗΤΑ:
Ο
ΑΜΑΝΤΕΟ
ΜΠΟΡΝΤΙΓΚΑ
ΣΗΜΕΡΑ
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)
Turkish Translation: Komünist
Manifesto'dan 150 Yıl Sonra
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
Italian Translation: Razza e
Illuminismo. D'all'antisemitismo alla supremazia dei bianchi. 1492-1676
Race and the Enlightenment, Part II: The
Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond (1999)(*)
Italian Translation: Razza e
Illuminismo. L'illuminismo anglo-francese
The Renaissance and Rationality: The
Status of the Enlightenment Today (1995)(*)
Russian translation: Ренессанс и
рациональность: Статус Просвещения сегодня (2004)
Italian Translation: Renascimiento e
Razionalita
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)
Italian Translation: Nazismo
e
decostruzione
Marxism and the Crisis of Scientific Ideology
(1983; 1992)(*)
Italian Translation: Il marxismo
e la critica dell'ideologia scientifica
German Translation: Marxismus und die
Kritik der Wissenschaft
Post-Modernism Meets the IMF: The Case of Poland (1990)(*)
The Universality of Marx (1989)(*)
Italian Translation: L'universalita
di
Marx
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)(*)
Italian Translation: Dal
Nazional-Bolschevismo all'ecologismo
History and Realization of the Material
Imagination (1979)(*)
Italian Translation: Storia
e Realizzazione dell'Immaginazione Materiale
Spanish Translation: Historia
y
realización
de
la
imaginación
material
Their Methodology and Ours (1977)
Conjuncture: World Capitalism Since the
Collapse of the Bretton Woods System (1976)
Romanian Translation: Conjunctura:
capitalismul mondial de la căderea sistemului Bretton Woods (2009)
Book Review: Joao Bernardo, Poder e
Dinheiro, 3 vols. Porto 1995-2002.
Book Review: Moishe Postone's Dialectic 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)