The Growing Relevance of Postcapitalism: Maruti Workers' Strike- V for Victory (a quite "questionable" victory)

INTERESTING BOOKS I READ

KARL MARX: Das Kapital Vol I,II,III; Grundrisse; The Civil War in France; The 18th brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The German Ideology; Economic and philosophical manuscripts of 1844; Theories of Surplus Value Volume I, II, III; Critique of the Gotha Programme; Value, price and profit; The Poverty of Philosophy; 1850 'address'; The Class Struggles in France, Manifesto of the Communist Party; Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right; Wage-labour and Capital, articles from the New York Tribune, On the Jewish Question, Writings on Bakunin FRIEDRICH ENGELS: Dialectics of Nature; Anti-Dühring; Conditions of the working class in England, the Origins of the family, private property and the State, Synopsis of Capital, Socialism utopian and scientific PAUL MATTICK, Monopoly Capital; Economic crisis and crisis theory, Lenin the Legend, (interesting critique of Leninism),Marx and Keynes, the Limits of the Mixed Economy. MATT C. KEENER: a phenomenology of polyamorous persons HENRYK GROSSMAN (Genuine Marxist): The Law of Accumulation and Breakdown (amazing work! Especially for its critique of Bernstein, Luxemburg and Tugan-Baranovsky's crisis theories and political economy stances in general); Marx, classical political economy and the problems of dynamics VOL I, II (very interesting!); BONNY IBHAWOH AND J.I. DIBUA: Deconstructing Ujamaa. The Legacy of Julius Nyerere in the Quest for Social and Economic Development in Africa NIKOLAUS: The restoration of Capitalism in the Ussr MAURICE DOBB: Soviet Economic Development since 1917 ANWAR SHAIKH: Marx’s labour theory of value and the transformation problem, Measuring the wealth of nations (Enlightening! An impressive 'marxist' gathering of data), Is deficit-financed growth limited? E. J. HOBSBAWM: “The Age of” books. KARL KORSCH: Marxism and Philosophy; A Non-dogmatic approach to Marxism; Ten Theses on Marxism Today. P.SWEEZY (insightful "underconsumptionist" Marxist. Many of his concepts are not very convincing; his underconsumptionist approach definitely doesn't help. lol): Theory of Capitalist Development, AMADEO BORDIGA: Le Grandi questioni storiche della Rivoluzione in Russia BARAN AND SWEEZY: Monopoly Capital, ALEC NOVE The Soviet Economic System (provides important economic data);LADISLAUS VON BORTKIEVICZ Value and Price in the Marxian System (naive attack on Marx's LTV à la Sweezy) OSKAR LANGE (got his problems): On the economic theory of Socialism (insightful but quite ambiguous in terms of praxis) FRED M. TAYLOR: The guidance of production in a socialist state A. MASLOW (Liberal) : A theory of human motivation, Creative attitude WAHBA AND BRIDWELL: Maslow reconsidered C.DICKENS: A christman carol, Hard times, David Copperfield, A tale of two cities PAUL COCKSHOTT ET AL: Towards a New Socialism, Against anti-Imperialism, Critique of Woods' Reformism or Revolution MATT KEENER: A phenomenology of Polyamorous persons EDWARD BELLAMY: Looking backward A. BORDIGA: Le Grandi questione storiche della Rivoluzione in Russia E.GUEVARA (petty bourgeois socialist): Reminiscence of the Cuban Revolutionary War BILL VAN AUKEN – Castroism ISAAK RUBIN (Soviet genuine Marxist): Abstract labour and value, Essays on Marx's theory of value Vol. I and II. LENIN: State and Revolution, April theses, Imperialism Left-wing communism, Testament, Selected speeches in "Against Trotskyism" (an old USSR "pro-regime propaganda" book. Quite interesting anyway) etc etc. NIKOLAI BUKHARIN: The Abc of Communism. LANCELOT LAWTON: An Economic history of Soviet Russia (utterly Liberal but with some important data); ERNEST MANDEL: Marxist theory of the State, Leninist theory of organisation, an introduction to Marxist economics, Marx’s Economic Theory Vol I and II, Late Capitalism JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES: General theory of.. S. FREUD: Beyond the pleasure principle; three contributions to a theory of sex Interpretation of dreams MICHAEL LEBOWITZ: Build it now; Socialist alternative A. WOODS: Reformism or Revolution; Where is the Venezuelan Revolution going?; Reason in Revolt, History of philosophy. Marx and Keynes, the Limits of the Mixed Economy, What is Marxism DAVID BROWN - Saint Jacques, Derrida and the Ghost of Marxism JIM LEITZEL- Russian_Economic_Reform (liberal) JOHN GITTINGS: The changing face of China: from Mao to Market T. GRANT: Stalin VS Marx; the bureaucratic road to conflict; Nixon and Mao; The Collapse of Stalinism and the Class Nature of the Russian State, Relevance of Marxism today,;Russia, from Revolution to Counter-revolution L.GRAU: Bear went over the mountain, Soviet combat tactics in Afghanistan, 1996 GEOFF PILLING, The crisis of keynesian economics; Marx's Capital, philosophy and political GOPAL BALAKRISHAN: Debating Empire NEGRI & HARDT ('hardly' definable as a Marxist): Empire FREDERIC JAMESON: Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism LOUIS ALTHUSSER ('hardly' definable as a real Marxist): For Marx MICHAEL HUDSON (confuse) — From Marx to Goldman Sachs- The Fictions of Fictitious Capital DAVID YAFFE: Britain parasatic and decaying Capitalism,The labour aristocracy and imperialism; The Marxian Theory of Crisis, Capital and the State ABBOTT: Modern-day Kautskyism ELLEN WOOD: The origin of Capitalism ROB SEWELL: What is dialectical materialism NAOMI KLEIN ("anti-capitalist" or whatever that means): No Logo THEODOR ADORNO: Minima Moralia, Negative dialectics, Dialectics of Enlightenment DAVID HARVEY (disappointing 'Marxist'): the New Imperialism MAHATMA GANDHI (idealist, liberal, quasi-proudhonian): Hind Swaraj JACQUES GIRI: Africa in crisis ALBERTO SCIORTINO L'Africa in Guerra; SADAT MANTO: Bombay Stories AGATA GUGLIOTTA: Nigeria, Risorse di chi?: HOWARD GARDNER: Multiple intelligences JHUMPA LAHIRI: The Lowland; VIKRAM CHANDRA: Love and Longing in Bombay ARUNDHATI ROY: The God of Small Things JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU: (idealist) Discourse on Inequality, Social Contract J. DERRIDA: (substantially a comedy idealistic persona): Spectres of Marx SAMIR AMIN: The world we wish to see, the political economy of national accounts KANT: Critique of Pure Reason; MILAN KUNDERA (the Ruse of History?): The Joke; The Unbearable lightness of Being; SLAVOJ ZIZEK (An insightful, intelligent Marxist that "got his problems"): First as tragedy, then as farce; the ticklish subject; Multiculturalism or the logic of multinational capital; Freud lives!; The prospect of radical politics today; The ticklish subject, Violence (insightful..a communicative masterpiece), The Puppet and the Dwarf (amazing critique of Christinaity and Judaism) RICHARD SAKWA: The rise and fall of Communism (liberal, but with important data), Post Communism (aaaaaah!) DAVID RICARDO: On the principles of political economy D.HAWKES – Ideology (interesting) A. BADIOU The Communist Hypothesis P. OSBORNE: How to Read Marx; W.BONEFELD & S.TISCHLER: What is to be Done? Leninism, anti-Leninist Marxism and the Question of Revolution today; MICHAEL NEWMAN: A very short ntroduction to Socialism BHAGAT SINGH; Why I am an atheist (Singh) PROUDHON (reactionary anarchist): Philosophy of poverty JEAN BRICMONT: Humanitarian Imperialism (Bricmont) T. EAGLETON Why Marx was Right ANTONIO GRAMSCI: Selected works STEVE COLL (conservative naïve liberal with important date on the US foreign policies): Ghost Wars STEFAN KLEIN The Science of happiness AMARTYA SEN (utilitarianist naïve liberal): On Ethics and Economics; CHRISTINE HARRIS: The Evolution of Jealousy; ADAM SMITH (important and 'honest'liberal author): The wealth of nations GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ: Love in the Time of Cholera; a Hundred Years of Solitude; JOSEPH STIGLITZ (naïve liberal with important data on the IMF's policies) Making Globalisation work, Globalisation and its discontents VIRGINIA WOOLF: Mrs Dalloway; BHIKHU PAREKH (confuse liberal) Marx's theory of ideology LEON TROTSKY: The Revolution Betrayed, On the philosophy of the Superman, The transitional programme VOLTAIRE: (great sarcasm, poor philosophy, "pleasurable" reading) L'ingenu; treatise on tolerance BAKUNIN (utterly idealist): God and the State J.RAWLS (confuse liberal philosopher) ; A theory of Justice MARCO TRAVAGLIO (liberal): Regime NIETZSCHE (mamma mia); Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Beyond Good and Evil, Antichrist RABINDRA RAY; Western Atheism (mediocre book) JOSEPH SCHUMPETER (naïve nay quasi 'religious' 'austrian school' liberal, especially for his negligence of Value): Capitalism, socialism and democracy NICOLO' MACHIAVELLI Prince MAX WEBER (liberal) The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism PAUL LAFARGUE: The right to be lazy WALTZ AND MERSHEIMER ("very" liberal) The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy JOHN LOCKE: An Essay on Human Understanding JUNG; the Development of Personality ITALO SVEVO: Zeno's Conscience; ITALO CALVINO: Was I Stalinist too? MAXIM GORKY: Mother NOAM CHOMSKY (an 'honest' bourgeois!) ; Understanding power, Necessary illusions, On Anarchism etc MAZIAR RAZI (Iranian Marxist); Why Revolutionary Marxists should not support Islamic fundamentalists ROBERT CLOUGH: Haunted by the Labour Aristocracy PARKER AND RATHBONE: African History POETRY/PROSE: Leopardi, Trilussa, Young Marx, Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Leopardi, Nissim Ezekiel, G.M. Muktibodh, William Blake, Jibanananda Das, Sri Sri, Jayanta Mahapatra, Ambai, Guido Cavalcanti, Bertold Brecht, Pablo Neruda, Faiz A. Faiz, Dante, Angiolieri,Jamaica Kincaid, Maya Angelou, Baudelaire, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Giosue Carducci, Giovanni Pascoli, Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, Aimé Césaire, Martha Medeiros, et cetera...

MOVIES WATCHED

SPAGHETTI WESTERN/NON-SPAGHETTI WESTERN

High plains drifter;

Django;

For a Few Dollars more;

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly;

A Fistful of Dollars;

Butch Cassidy;

WESTERN SURREALISM/MINIMALISM

Porcile;

Coffee and Cigarettes;

Juliet of the Spirits;

8 and 1/2;

Natural Born Killers;

The Seventh Seal

Donnie Darko;

Rosemary's baby;

Memento;

The Wall;

Lost highway;

Wild at heart;

Mulholland Drive;

Blue Velvet;

Rabbits;

A boy and his dog;

Eraserhead;

The Elephant Man;

Nostra Signora dei Turchi;

Lost Highway

Easy Rider;

Jacob's ladder;

Inception;

WESTERN HORROR

The Stuff;

Them!

1408;

John Carpenter’s The Thing;

John Carpenter’s In the mouth of madness;

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers;

Devil;

Within the Woods;

John Carpenter’s Body Bags;

John Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness;

John Carpenter’s Halloween

John Carpenter’s The Ward

The Crazies;

John Carpenter’s They Live;

John Carpenter’s The Fog

John Carpenter’s Village of the damned;

Psycho;

28days later;

28weeks later;

The Ring (remake of Ringu);

Dark Water;

Cannibal Holocaust;

The Abominable Dr. Phibes;

Evil Dead;

Evil Dead 2;

Ice Cream Man;

Amityville Horror

Grave Encounters

The Mist;

Rec;

Rec 2;

The Night of the Living Dead;

The Dawn of the Dead;

The Day of the Dead;

Suspiria;

Deep red;

World War Z;

Halloween (saga)

The Stendhal Syndrome;

Anaconda;

The Exorcist;

Slither;

Pulse;

From Dusk Till Dawn;

Army of Darkness;

The Blair Witch Project;

The Hills Have Eyes;

The Birds;

Friday the 13th (saga);

The House of 1000 corpses;

Creepshow;

Poltergeist;

Purana Mandir;

Silent Hill;

Godzilla;

The Good son;

The Haunting;

The Sixth Sense;

The Others;

Saw (saga);

The Shining;

Predator;

Milo;

Naina;

An American werewolf in Paris;

The Beyond;

V/H/S;

V/H/S/2;

The Woman;

Cujo;

I know what you did last summer;

Nightmare on Elm Street;

Resident Evil Apocalypse;

Resident Evil extinction;

Children of the corn;

the dark half;

Secret windows;

Salem's lot;

Carrie;

Berberian Sound Studio;

Evolution;

Evil Dead (2013)

The Conjuring

The Omen (1976)

The Omen (2006)

The Fly

The Fly 2

Insidious

Paranormal activity

The Silence of the Lambs;

The Cabin in the Woods;

The Human Centipede;

Hellraiser (saga);

Beetlejuice;

Halloween;

Salem's lot;

Chucky;

Final Destination (Saga);

Interview with the vampire;

Tremors (saga)

The Phantom of the Opera

Friday 13

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (saga)

Begotten;

Gothika;

Dawn of the Dead;

Day of the Dead;

Return of the living Dead;

Hostel (saga);

Resident Evil (saga);

Edward Scissorhands;

Wrong Turn (saga);

Orphan;

The Exorcism of Emily Rose;

The Amityville horror;

The Number 23;

American Mary;

Cabin Fever;

You're Next;

Needful Things;

Firestarter;

Dreamcatcher;

Christine;

Jaws (Saga);

Magic;

Piranha;

The Swarm;

The dead zone;

Tommyknockers;

The Langoliers;

Jeepers Creepers;

It;

Blob;

The last exorcism;

The Hole;

The Village;

Shaun of the dead;

Frankenstein;

The Departed

Misery;

Leviathan;

Scream (saga);

Warm bodies;

The House of the Devil;

Pet sematary;

ACTION/SCI-FI/APOCALYPTIC

V For Vendetta;

Johnny Mnemonic;

The Da Vinci Code;

John Carpenter’s Dark Star;

A.I.;

Kill Bill;

The Italian Job;

The Last Man on Earth (1964);

Demolition Man;

Machete;

Face off;

2001 – A space odyssey;

Mission Impossible (saga);

The Angel;

Hitman;

Persona;

The War of Worlds;

Matrix (saga);

Blade;

I am legend;

The Day after tomorrow;

Lethal weapon (saga)

Alien (saga);

Deep Impact;

2001 A space odyssey;

Taxi;

Last Action hero;

Commando;

Ronin;

Ram Gopal Varma ka Aag;

Virtuosity;

Lethal Weapon;

Blade Runner;

Die Hard;

Stalker;

Solaris;

Beverly Hills Cop (saga);

Men in Black;

Armageddon;

Rambo (saga);

The Terminator (saga);

2012;

End of Days;

Cloverfield

Apollo 13;

Mars Attack;

Independence Day;

Mission to Mars;

The Time Machine;

The Jackal;

DOCUMENTARIES

Life and Debt;

Darwin's Nightmare

The Paris Commune;

This World, Cuba (BBC);

Welcome to Lagos (BBC);

The Oil factor;

South of The Border;

John PIlger’s Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia

Fahreneit 9/11

Sicko;

A place called Chiapas;

The Corporation;

Capitalism a love story;

The Pervert's guide to Cinema;

The Century of Self;

Salt, sugar and Fat;

Supersize me;

Waking Life;

War on Democracy;

Love in India;

The Revolution will not be televised;

Zeitgeist

Sankara - the upright man;

GERMAN EXPRESSIONISM

The Testament of Dr Mabuse;

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari;

Metropolis;

Nosferatu;

NOIR/CRIME/POLICE/MAFIA MOVIES

The Big Combo

Out of the Past

Europa;

The Sting;

Carlito's way;

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Goodfellas;

Zodiac;

The Killing;

The Godfather (saga);

Scarface;

Donnie Brasco

Sin City;

Pulp fiction;

Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro;

Catch me if you can;

Reservoir Dogs;

Grindhouse (Planet Terror - Deathproof)

Once upon a time in Mexico;

Catch me if You can

EPIC FILMS

1900;

Sholay;

Ben Hur;

Gone with the Wind;

The Ten Commandments;

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957);

Ben-Hur;

Spartacus;

Gandhi;

Schindler's List;

Braveheart;

Lawrence of Arabia;

Titanic;

Saving Private Ryan;

Gladiator;

Master & Commander;

Kingdom of Heaven;

300;

Les Misérables;

HISTORICAL/POLITICAL/CONCEPTUAL/COMING-OF-AGE

Lord of War;

American Graffiti;

Stand by me;

Quilombo;

Full Metal Jacket

The Chinese Connection;

12 Years a Slave;

Der Bader Meinhof Complex;

Bandit Queen;

The Longest day;

Zulu down;

Saving Private Ryan;

The Great Escape;

Munich;

Apocalypto;

Machuca;

The Pianist;

El Alamein;

September 11;

Paths of Glory;

Argo;

Frida;

The Untouchables;

Mamma Roma;

Life is beautiful;

Hotel Rwanda;

Apocalypse Now;

The Wolf of Wall Street;

Pearl Harbor;

The Patriot;

The Battle of Algiers;

Seven Samurai;

Mother India;

Land and Freedom;

Z - Il est vivant

Romero;

Che (part I and II);

Zero Dark Thirty;

Gangs of New York

The Untouchables;

Pan's labyrinth;

Devdas;

Salo';

Amarcord;

Blood Diamonds;

The Last King of Scotland;

The Naked Civil Servant;

The Last Samurai;

Queimada;

Yip Man;

Syriana;

Tie Xu Qi - West of the Tracks;

Viva cuba;

Fresa y chocolate;

There will be blood;

Lincoln;

The Motorcycles Diaries;

Rome Open City;

Uomini Contro;

Modern Times;

The Great Dictator

Dr Strangelove;

City of God;

Wikileaks;

The Butler,

Inglorious Basterds;

Wall street;

Wall street 2;

Farewell my concubine

La Chinoise;

Weekend;

Film Socialisme;

Goodbye Lenin;

FANTASY

Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Life of Pi;

The Hobbit;

The Hobbit 2;

The Infinite story (saga);

Jurassic Park (saga);

Sleepy Hollow;

Waterworld;

Life of Pi;

EXistenZ;

Constantine;

The Mask;

A trip to the moon;

Ghostbusters;

E.T.;

The House of Flying Daggers;

Casper;

Super Mario;

SOUTHEAST ASIAN HORROR/NOIR/SURREALISM

Hausu (House);

Oldboy;

Ringu;

The Grudge;

Onibaba;

The Audition;

Stray dog;

The Red Shoes;

A Tale of two sisters;

Paranoia Agent (series);

Midnight meat train;

Kwaidan;

Cure (1997);

Infection;

Purana Haveli;

Gandu;

Tetsuo (1989)

Godmandog;

MONDO MOVIES/SHOCKUMENTARIES

Mondo Cane;

Africa Addio;

Goodbye Uncle Tom;

DYSTOPIAN

Children of Men;

Minority Report;

The City of Ember;

The Island;

The Running Man;

12 monkeys;

Rollerball;

Zardoz;

Brazil;

A scanner darkly;

John Carpenter’s Escape from New York;

John Carpenter’s Escape from LA;

A Clockword Orange;

2081;

Dune;

Fahrenheit 451;

The Prisoner (TV series);

The Dobermann

The Truman Show;

ITALIAN NEOREALISM

Rome open city

Il Tetto

Germany year zero

DRAMA/THRILLER/BLACK COMEDIES/SATIRICAL COMEDIES

Gravity;

Nebraska;

John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13;

Once upon a time in Anatolia;

Equilibrium;

Nostalghia;

Pinjar;

Zombieland;

Blue Jasmine;

Pleasantville;

The Time traveller's wife;

La Grande Bellezza;

Berlinguer I Love you;

The Tiger and the snow;

Citizen Kane;

Whatever works;

John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China

Requiem for a dream;

Everything you wanted to know about sex;

Fight Club;

Coma;

The Weather Man;

Non ti muovere;

8mile;

Ray;

The Great Dictator;

Modern Times;

City Lights;

Rear Window;

Rocky (saga);

To Catch a thief;

Eyes wide shut;

The Wizard;

The Wrestler;

Escape from Alcatraz;

Wing Chun;

Open water;

K-PAX;

Shutter Island;

Slumdog Millionaire;

Bride and Prejudice;

Bombay Ka Baboo;

Cast Away;

Into the Wild;

The Kid;

Rainman;

Cinema Paradiso;

Being there;

American Psycho;

127 hours;

The Conversation;

Vertigo;

the 400 blows;

Seven Pounds;

Hurricane;

Ali;

Forrest Gump;

American Beauty;

Taxi Driver;

Aparajito;

The Dirty Picture;

The Devil's advocate;

North by Northwest;

Signs;

Hitchcock;

La vie en rose;

Johnny Stecchino;

Monty Python's the Meaning of Life;

Il Caimano;

Life of Brian;

The Shawshank Redemption;

The Darjeeling limited;

Elvis;

The Green Mile

Powell's Red Shoes;

Peeping Tom;

Un Sacco Bello;

Il mostro;

Il papocchio;

Dolores Claiborne;

Stracci;

The Postman;

The Dreamers;

The Terminal;

It's a wonderful life;

The Great Gasby;

Trainspotting;

Barfi;

Wadjda;

A Beautiful Mind;

Water;

Amores perros

The gift;

MUSICAL/DANCE FILM

Grease;

Saturday Night Fever;

Blues Brothers;

Jesus Christ Superstars

A nightmare before Christmas;

Across the Universe;

COMEDIES/ROMCOM

Duck Soup

The Naked Gun (saga)

Tre Uomini e una gamba;

Chiedimi se sono felice;

Le leggenda di Al, John e Jack;

Jackass;

Non ci resta che piangere;

The Gods must be crazy;

Borat;

Home Alone;

Home Alone 2;

Charlie's Angels;

Spy Kids;

Ace Ventura;

Gremlins;

The Simpsons;

Notte prima degli Esami;

Honey, I shrunk the Kids

Honey, I blew up the kid

American Pie;

You got mail;

When Harry met Sally;

Mr Bean;

Look who’s talking (Saga)

Baby’s day out;

Babe;

Dumb and Dumber

Fantozzi (saga);

Fracchia;

Social relations are closely bound up with productive

forces. In acquiring new productive forces men change their mode of production; and in changing their mode of production, in changing the way of earning their living, they change all their social relations.

The hand-mill gives you society with the feudal lord; the steam-mill society with the industrial capitalist.

The same men who establish their social relations in conformity with the material productivity, produce also principles, ideas, and categories, in conformity with their social relations.

Thus the ideas, these categories, are as little eternal as the relations they express. They are historical and transitory products.

(Karl Marx - Poverty of Philosophy, 1847)

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