Variant Issue 43 – The Economy of Abolition/Abolition of the Economy

[jondwhite]

I was reading about Mario Tronti on wikipedia when I came across this magazine (free to download) which I had never previously heard of. The current issue talks about Tronti.

http://www.variant.org.uk/42texts/EconomyofAbolition.html

[ALB]

I think you mean Variant Issue 42. They send this to us but I’ve never bothered to look at it myself as it seems to be an arty-farty cultural magazine.  So this on the face of it interesting article is probably just a one-off.Anyway, on your recommendation I’ve ploughed through it — and that’s the word as it’s very heavy going. The theme seems to be that the struggle of workers in the workplace has been (and should be) superseded by the struggle against debt as this is more likely to lead in today’s conditions to the end of “wage-labour, exchange and the state”. Doesn’t make much sense to me but it seems that this is the thesis of a whole school of thought who called themselves “communisers”.

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