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Crisis and Collapse 1 Movements and Concepts in the New Left Wintersemester 2012-13 Dr. Wanda Vrasti [email protected] Office Hours: per appointment Course Description: In the late 1960s millions of people, students and workers, women and minorities, factory workers and the new professional elites took to the streets everywhere from Mexico City to Belgrade. They were responding to local conditions, but what united them was a growing disappointment with the mass ideologies of the 20th century – liberalism in the West and socialism in the East. These social visions had not delivered progress, abundance, and emancipation, as promised, but social conformity in the capitalist world and bureaucratic authority in the socialist camp. The New Left, as these movements came to be known, sought to liberate the human spirit from these fetters by staging a cultural revolution (a revolution of everyday life). They sought to put an end to all systems of oppression (patriarchy, racism, homophobia, scientific rationality) and all forms of domination (bureaucracies, corporations, central governments, ideologies) in the name of self-determination and –expression. Although these movements only lasted for a decade at most, and generally suffered brutal defeats of repression or cooptation, they left an indelible mark on our intellectual history and social organization. Most importantly, the thinking and tactics they inspired on the Left, like autonomism, anarchism, ecofeminism, and non-violent direct action, forever changed the culture of resistance all over the world. In this seminar we will review all of these developments along with their implications (and challenges) for organizing against the twin forces of economic exploitation and social domination. Learning Objectives: • Develop a thorough understanding of New Left critiques of liberal capitalism and state socialism; • Demonstrate a comprehensive grasp of the many different strands of New Left politics across the Global North and South (e.g., anarchists, autonomists, radical feminists, de-growth, deep ecologists, etc.); • Critically assess the merits of various tactics and strategies of resistance in their ability to resist cooptation and repression, and push for effective social change; • Develop speaking and writing skills for communicating complex scholarly ideas. Assignments (10 credit points) : Class Participation: Your attendance rate in class will not be monitored. Neither will you receive a grade for in-class participation. However, the overall success of this seminar as well as your performance in it depends mostly on your active in-class participation. You are expected to do the weekly readings and come to class prepared to participate in group discussion. 2 Reaction Statement: Each week students will submit a 1-page or less document (or email) to our course website identifying, in a very schematic/bullet form, two-three points (ideas, concepts, questions) from the readings that caught your attention, intrigued, surprised, or confused you, which you would like us to discuss further in class. Presenters must read these reaction statements and select key items that deserve being included in their presentations. The statements should be uploaded on the course website no later than Wednesday evening: https://humboldt.onlinegroups.net/groups/newleftseminar. Presentations: Each week one or two students will give a brief presentation (10 min) on the weekly readings and questions. The presenter should not summarize the texts, but identify main themes and concepts, point out useful lessons and weaknesses, and situate the readings within the broader context of the course. PowerPoint presentations are not necessary (unless you have audio-visual material you would like to use). Rather, you should try to speak freely and be prepared to propose questions for further discussion. Final Paper: During the semester break students will be expected to write a 15-page (1.5 spacing, 12 pt. font) research paper on a problem, debate or event of their choice relevant to course. The paper should meet all standards of research and academic writing. Your work will be assessed based on knowledge of topic, thesis/argument development, structure and organization, documentation provided, quality of research conducted, grammar and spelling, and presentation. For the bibliography please use the Chicago style of citation as exemplified in the reading list below. Readings: Download from https://humboldt.onlinegroups.net/groups/newleftseminar. Week 1/October 19th Introduction Week 2/October 26th The Failure of Mass Utopias I: Liberalism Venn, Couze. “The Enlightenment.” Theory, Culture & Society 23.2-3(2006): 477-86. Holmes, Brian. “American Dreams: Keynesian Fordism as Global Social Compact.” http://messhall.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/3.-American_Dreams.pdf Week 3/November 2nd The Failure of Mass Utopias II: Socialism Gabriel, Satya, Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff. “State Capitalism versus Communism: What Happened in the USSR and the PRC?” Critical Sociology 34 (2009): 539-56. http://rdwolff.com/content/state-capitalism-versus-communism- what-happened-ussr-and-prc Spufford, Francis. “Mr. Chairman, 1959,” in Red Plenty. Greywolf Press. 48-79. Week 4/November 9th The Idea of the New Left 3 Katsiaficas, George. The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968. Cambridge, MA: South End Press. 17-27. Oglesby, Carl. “Introduction: The Idea of the New Left.” The New Left Reader. Carl Oglesby, ed. New York: Grove Press, 1969. 1-20. Week 5/November 16th Students in the New Left Barker, Colin. “Some Reflections on the Student Movements of the 1960s and Early 1970s.” Revista Critica de Ciencias Sociais 81(2008): 43-91. Davidson, Carl. “The Multiversity: Crucible of the New Working Class.” In Revolutionary Youth & the New Working Class: The Praxis Papers, the Port Authority Statement, the RYM Documents and Other Lost Writings of SDS. Carl Davidson, ed. Pittsburgh, PA: Changemaker Publications, 2011. 21-51. Week 6/November 23rd Workers in the New Left Berardi, Franco (Bifo). “Anatomy of Autonomy.” Autonomia: Post-political Politics. Semiotext(e) 3.3(1980): 148-71. Ehrenreich, Barbara and John. “The Professional-Managerial Class.” Radical America 11.2 (1977): 7-32. Federici, Silvia. “Wages against Housework.” Power of Women Collective and Falling Wall Press, 1975. http://caringlabor.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/silvia-federici- wages-against-housework/ Week 7/November 30th Non-Violent Direct Action in the 70s & 80s Graeber, David. “The Rebirth of Anarchism in North America.” HAOL 21(2010):123-31. Epstein, Barbara. “Introduction,” in Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Non- Violent Direct Action in the 70s and 80s. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1-19. Week 8/December 7th Cooptation and Commodification of the New Left Frank, Thomas. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 1-33. Boltanski, Luc and Eve Chiapello. “General Introduction: On the Spirit of Capitalism and the Role of Critique,” in The New Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Verso, 2005. 36-43. Week 9/December 14th From Liberal Capitalism to Neoliberal Globalization Harvey, David. “Freedom’s Just Another Word…,” in Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. 1-38. Midnight Notes Collective. “The New Enclosures.” 1990. http://www.midnightnotes.org/pdfnewenc1.pdf 4 Week 10/December 21th The Anti-Globalization Movement Graeber, David. “The New Anarchists.” New Left Review 13(2002). Available at: http://newleftreview.org/A2368 Epstein, Barbara. “Anarchism and the Anti-Globalization Movement.” 53.4(2011). http://monthlyreview.org/2001/09/01/anarchism-and-the-anti-globalization- movement Notes from Nowhere. “Carnival: Resistance is the Secret of Joy.” We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism. New York: Verso, 2003. 173-83. Week 11/January 11th Autonomist Marxism Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. 63-115. Holloway, John. “Beyond the State?” in Change the World without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today. London: Pluto Press, 1992. 2-12. Week 12/January 18th Diversity of Tactics Mohandesi, Salahar. “On the Black Bloc.” Available at: http://libcom.org/library/black- bloc-salar-mohandesi Jensen, Derrick. Pacifism I and II, in Endgame: Resistance, vol. II, New York: Seven Stories Press. Video: END: CIV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hx-G1uhRqA or segment on pacifism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjJsCvkRa7I&feature=related Week 13/January 25th De-growth Perspectives in the Global North Bookchin, Murray. “Ecology and Revolutionary Thought.” Post-Scarcity Anarchism. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1971. 77-104. Greer, John Michael. Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2011. Excerpts. Week 14/February 1st Subsistence Struggles in the Global South Mies, Maria and Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen. The Subsistence Perspective: Beyond the Globalised Economy. London: Zed Books, 1999. 1-23. Holt-Gimenez, Eric. “From Food Crisis to Food Sovereignty: The Challenge of Social Movements.” Monthly Review 61.3 (2009). http://monthlyreview.org/2009/07/01/from-food-crisis-to-food-sovereignty-the- challenge-of-social-movements Week 15/February 8th The Occupy Movement(s) Jodi Dean. “The Meaning of OWS for the Left” 5 Slavoj Zizek. “Don’t Fall in Love with Yourselves” (Talk at Zucotti Park) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32ShKRjLN3M
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