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Patrick Bond lecture at Rosa Luxemburg centenary of Accumulation of Capital, Berlin, 9 March |
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100th Anniversary of The Accumulation of Capital: A Contribution to an Economic Explanation of Imperialism A Century-Old Work Remains Contemporary, Provocative and Seminal
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday, 7 March 2014 15.00/3 p.m. Cultural beginning 15.10: 3.10 Welcome and introduction of the project 15.25: 3.25 The Significance of Rosa Luxemburg for Contemporary Social Theory: Nancy Fraser 16.15: 4.15 Rosa Luxemburg‘s Accumulation of Capital as an Epistemological and Political Challenge Today – Critique of Social Theory and of Historical Reality as an Orientation for Radical Political practice: Frieder Otto Wolf 17.00/ 5 p.m. Coffee break 17.20: 5.20 The Contribution of Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital to the Critique of Political Economy: Michael Krätke 17.50: 5.50 Discussion 19.20: 7.20 Reflection on the First Conference Day: Hanna Szymborska 19.30: 7.30 Small talk and a drink at the RLF
Saturday, 8.3.2014 - International Women’s Day 10.00/10 a.m. A Feminist Re-Appropriation of Rosa Luxemburg’s ‘Land Grabbing’ Concept: Tove Soiland 10.45: On the Historical Conditions of The Accumulation of Capital and the Necessity of Its Utilization for Socialist Revolutionary Consciousness Past and Present: Julian Park 11.10: Rosa Luxemburg on Workers’ Consciousness – Looking back from Today: Klaus Dörre 11.35: Coffee break 11.50: The ‘Outside’ of Capital – Land grabbing as Production of Surplus Labour Time and the Crisis of the Production of Relative Surplus Value: Frank Engster 12.15: Discussion in two working groups: on the feminist lecture and on the contributions of Julian Park, Klaus Dörre and Frank Engster 13.15: 1.15 Lunch break 14.00/2 p.m. How to deal Productively with the Heritage of Luxemburg – The Example of Tadeusz Kowalik: Jan Toporowski 14.25: 2.25 Marx’s Evolving Conception of Value and Luxemburg’s Legacy: Paul Zarembka 14.50: 2.50 Re-Reading The Accumulation of Capital: He Ping 15.10: 3.10 Is there an ‘Imperial living mode’, and how does it work?: Judith Dellheim 15.30. 3.30 Neo-Developmentalism, Accumulation by dispossession and international rent in Argentina, 2003-2013: Mariano Feliz 15.50: 3.50 Coffee break 16.10: 4.10 Discussion in three working groups “Critical Appropriation of Luxemburg’s Heritage”: A) on the contributions of He Ping, Paul Zarembka, Jan Topororowski, Mariano Feliz; B) contributions of 20 minutes by Maria Backhouse, Kojo Opoku Aidoo1, Jaya Mehta2; discussion; C) contributions of 20 minutes by Ranabir Samaddar3, Dominika Dinušová4, Werner Rätz5, Ingo Schmidt6; discussion 18.50: 6.50 Reflection on the discussion in the working groups A) Hanna Szymborska B) Xin Wei C) Lutz Brangsch 19.20: 7.20 Reflection on the Second Conference Day: Ingo Schmidt 20.00/8 p.m. Conference dinner
Sunday, 9.3.2014 10.00/10 a.m. Accumulation of Capital and of the Social and the Ecological in Capitalism – Consequences of Revolutionary Realpolitik: Michael Brie 10.30: Rosa Luxemburg’s Accumulation of Capital as a Guide to Popular Solidarity for an Emancipatory Left: An agenda for further research: Patrick Bond 11.00: Comment: He Ping 10.10: Comment: Kojo Opoku Aidoo 10.20: Comment: Dominika Dinušová 11.30: Coffee Break 11.50: Discussion 12.40: Reflection on the discussion: Ranabir Samaddar 12.50: Closing Remarks 13.00/ 1p.m. Bye-bye drink
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