Tibor Rutar: The Marxian Theory of Class: Recentring Exploitation and Class Struggle
Chris O’Kane: ‘The specific social characters that the social production process stamps on individuals’: On The Constitution of Classes in Capital as ‘products of these specific social relations of production’
17:00–19:00: Panel discussion II: Critique of Contemporary Ideologies:
Sašo Furlan: Class Relations and Impersonal Domination in Capitalism
Katja Praznik: Welfare or Precarity? The History of Cultural Legislation for Artistic Labor and the Escalation of Class Differences in the Cultural System: The Slovenian Case
Primož Krašovec: Room for Class in the Contemporary Slovenian Academic Field
Igor Vobič: Online Newsworkers: At the Periphery of Journalism
Goran Đulić: Perspectives of the Agrarian Sector in Croatia
Marko Lovec: Slovenian Agricultural Production Structure, the Problem of Class Consciousness in Agriculture and the Role of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU
Stane Kavčič: The Size Structure of Agricultural Holdings in Slovenia and Their Importance for Slovenian Food Balance
Slovenia underwent some far reaching political and economic changes in the course of a few decades. After the abandonment of the system of self-managed socialism, the so-called gradualist approach to the transition to capitalism was adopted. This model, however, collapsed in the recent crisis. Futur...
The Internet has given a new shape to modern capitalism. These new features have drawn the attention of numerous studies and have become the focus of highly topical and controversial questions. However, as a rule, the literature has not taken as its starting point the development of a Marxist episte...
This contribution will challenge the commonly held assumption that, as part of the globalisation process, there is a shift of capital and employment from the ‘Global North’ to the ‘Global South’. In particular it has been argued that China and other parts of South East Asia are prime examples of new...
Scepticism about the capacity of workers to challenge capitalism is the common sense across much of the radical Left. Such views often start from the position that capitalism has been so fundamentally transformed that focussing on workers is hopelessly nostalgic. An influential version of this thesi...
When it comes to gender equality, the consequences of the dissolution of socialism are ambiguous at best. On one side, with the fading of the project of universal emancipation politics based on highlighting injustices incurred to particular elements of society became much more prominent. In this con...
The disintegration of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia resulted in its constituent members splitting apart and individually entering the welcoming markets. The cases of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia & Herzegovina, despite the countries having taken different paths, are nevertheless sim...
As argued by Antonio Gramsci, the concept of historic bloc refers to a historical congruence between material forces, state and civil institutions and ideologies, or, put differently, an alliance of different classes politically organised around hegemonic ideas that give coherence to its constituent...
After the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe, the liberal capitalist socio-economic formation was adopted by countries in the region. This panel discussion will focus on class differentiations as they have been formed during capitalist restoration in Macedonia, Bulgaria and Romania.
A brief overview of intensive European peripheral class struggles gives us the following polarity: on one side, we have the comprador bourgeoisie joined by a surge of extreme right movements, while on the other, we are faced with a fragmented workforce which is mostly incapable of unified political...
Slovenian agriculture is characterised by small farms of 6,5 ha in average. Almost half of the utilised agricultural area is cultivated by agricultural holdings smaller than 10 ha. In 2012, agriculture employed 8 % of the population. The concentration of agricultural land is a slow yet steady proces...
The last chapter of the third volume of Marx’s Capital bears a promising title: ‘Classes’. Marx opens this chapter by listing ‘the three great classes of a modern society based upon the capitalist mode of production’: wage-labourers, capitalists and land-owners. He proceeds by posing an important...
This presentation begins by summarising changes in employment patterns since the middle of the twentieth century, arguing that the mid 2000s marked the beginning of a fourth distinctive phase, the earlier ones having begun, respectively, after the end of World War II, after the 1973 oil crisis and a...
