Marx International IV Congress

English at the Congress

Université de Paris X Nanterre, bâtiment L

PROGRAM

Thursday, 30, 10 a.m. The New Global Order: Strengthening or Weakening of Capitalism? (SectionEconomy, Workshop 2, room 211)
Thursday, 30, 2 p.m.The Contradictions of the U.S. Imperium (SectionEconomy, Workshop 4, room 211)
Thursday, 30, 2 a.m.Marxism and International Relations Theory(SectionPolitical Sciences, Workshop 3, room 309)
Thursday, 30, 4 p.m.Capital,Finance, and Growth (SectionEconomy, Workshop 6, room 211)

Friday, 1, 9 a.m. Capital Accumulation and Crisis: Empirical Studies (EnglishSection, Workshop 1, room 309)
Friday, 1, 11 a.m.Les expériences de construction socialiste au 20ème siècle(SectionSocialism, Workshop 6, room 309)
Friday, 1, 2 p.m. L’État bourgeois à l’époque de la «mondialisation» (SectionPolitical Science, Workshop 7; English/french, room 421)
Friday, 1, 2 p.m.The Contradictions of Neoliberal Latin America (SectionEconomy, Workshop 12, room 211)
Friday, 1, 2 p.m.Globalisation: towards an exhaustion of the liberal paradigm? (EnglishSection, Workshop 2, room 309)
Friday, 1, 4 p.m.Empire and the Ends of Empire (EnglishSection, Workshop 3, room 309)

Saturday 2, 11.30 a.m. Marxism, Critique & Culture (Section Culture, workshop 5, room 318)
Saturday 2, 11.30 a.m. Recent Advances in Marxian Value Theory [sur le Capital (5)] (SectionMarxistStudies, room 205)

Section Economy, Workshop 2. Thursday, 30, 10 a.m. room 211. The New Global Order: Strengthening or Weakening of Capitalism?

Chair:Wolff, Richard, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, USA,

Gindin, Sam, Packer Chair in Social Justice, York University, Toronto, , et Panitch, Leo, Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy, Department of Political Science,
Global Finance and American Empire

McDermott, John, Professor Emeritus, SUNY (USA),
The International Middle Class: Mass Constituency for Globalism

Saghieh, Khaled, Ph.D Candidate, Department of Economics University of Massachusetts at Amherst,
Imperialism, Progress and Marxism

Section Economy, Workshop 4. Thursday, 30, 2 p.m., room 211. The Contradictions of the U.S. Imperium

Chair:Panitch, Léo,

Wolff, Max Fraad, Economics Department, University of Massachusetts, USA, et Wolff, Richard, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, USA,
Red, White and Broke: The Rise of Military Unilateralism

McIntyre, Richard, Dept. of Economics, Honors Center, and Schmidt Labor Research Center, University of Rhode Island,
Labor Rights in the Service of Empire

Ruccio, David F., Editor, Rethinking Marxism, Dept. of Economics & Policy Studies, Un. of Notre Dame, USA,
Globalization and Imperialism

Section Political Sciences, Workshop 3. Jeudi 30 septembre, 14h-16h, room 309. Marxism and International Relations Theory

Gowan, Peter, Metropolitan U. of London,
Imperial politics

Krätke, Michaël, U. Amsterdam,
World markets and world politics. Marx’ views and theories of international politics

Teschke, Benno, University of Sussex, UK
The myth of the Westphalian system. The Origins and Evolution of the European States-System: A Marxist Re-interpretation

Van der Pijl, Kees,U. Sussex
The Imperial Frontier in History and Today

Section Economy, Workshop 6.Thursday, 30, 4 p.m., room 211. Capital, Finance, and Growth

Chair:Husson, Michel, économiste IRES,

Bichler Shimshon, Israel, , et Nitzan, Jonathan, York University, Toronto, ,
Dominant Capital and the New Wars

Orhangazi, Özgür, Ph. D. Candidate, Economics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003,
The Rise of Finance Capital and its Implications

Petith, Howard,Professor depart. d'economia i d'historia economica, Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona Spain,
Growth with a Reserve Army

English Section, Workshop 1. Friday, 1, 9 a. m., room 309. Capital Accumulation and Crisis: Empirical Studies

Chair: Alfredo Saad-Filho (Department of Development Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK

Discussants: Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College, USA), Riccardo Bellofiore (Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy).

Seongjin Jeong (Department of Economics, Gyeongsang National University, Jinju, South Korea)
Trend of Capital Accumulation in South Korea after the 1997 Crisis: A Marxian Analysis

Simon Mohun (Centre for Business Management, Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Productive and Unproductive Labour and the Profit Share in the U.S. Economy, 1964-2001

Alejandro Valle Baeza (Economics Faculty, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Mexican Recession or Crisis 2001

Paulani Leda
Brazil as a Platform of International Financial Valorisation: The Role of Lula's Government

Section Socialism, Workshop 6. Vendredi 1er septembre, 11 h-13h, room 307.Les expériences de construction socialiste au 20°siècle

Chair:Al Campbell, Professeur d'économie à l'Université de Utah (Etats-Unis),

Richard Wolff,Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, USA,
The Rise and Fall of the USSR: Lessons for the 21st Century.

Zhaochang Peng

Paresh Chattopadhyay, Did the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia inaugurate a Socialist Revolution? A Marxian Perspective

Section Political Sciences, Workshop 7. Vendredi 1 octobre, 14h-16h, room 421. L’État bourgeois à l’époque de la «mondialisation» (en anglais + français)

Coordination: Achcar, Gilbert (U. Paris 8),

Panitch, Leo (York U., Toronto),

Section Economy, Workshop 12. Friday, 1, 2 p.m., room 211. The Contradictions of Neoliberal Latin America

Chair:Campbell, Al, Professor of Economics, University of Utah (Etats-Unis),

Dathein, Ricardo, Doctor in Economy, Teacher of Economic Sciences, Chief of the Department of Economic Sciences, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) - Porto Alegre - Brazil.
Brazil in the " Era of Adjustment"

Mendoza, Gabriel, Professor at Facultad de Economía Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México City, México,
Economic Growth in Marx, and the Evolution of Latin-American Economies during the Neoliberal Period (1980-2003)

Valle Alejandro, Profesor titular Posgrado Facultad de Economía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Precarious Employment and Development: The case of Latin America. Empleo precario y desarrollo: el caso latinoamericano

Agacino, Rafael,
L’exception chilienne? Les illusions et failles d’une contre-révolution néolibérale parvenue à maturité

English Section, Workshop 2. Friday, 1, 2 p.m. , room 309. Globalisation: towards an exhaustion of the liberal paradigm?

Jan Dumolyn, University of Ghent.
Programmes and strategies of the Belgian alternative globalisation movement: a Gramscian perspective.

André Mommen, University of Amsterdam, Vlaams Marxistisch Tijdschrift.
Responses to Globalisation : the Great Transformation Revisited

Stijn Osterlynck, Lancaster University
Organic intellectuals and the crisis of neo-liberalism: Joseph Stiglitz and the Post-Washington Consensus.

English Section, Workshop 3. Friday, 1, 4 p.m. , room 309. Empire and the Ends of Empire

Chair: Cornélius Crowley: , J.J. Lecercle:

Alex Callinicos, professeur de sciences politiques à l'Université d'York

Empire in the light of Multitude

Thierry Labica, Maître de conférences à l'Université de Paris-X, Département d'Etudes anglo-américaines

Empire of Fear: on correcting the "excess of democracy"

Jean-Jacques Lecercle, Professeur à l'Université de Paris-X, Département d'Etudes anglo-américaines

The language of Empire and the empire of language

Cornelius Crowley, Maître de conférences à l'Université de Paris-X, Département d'Etudes anglo-américaines

The ecumenical monism of Empire

Section Culture, Workshop 5. Samedi 2 octobre, 11h30, room 318.Marxism, Critique & Culture

Chair: Esther Leslie, Reader in Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London,

Matthew Beaumont, Oxford University,
Utopian Praxis: Literature and Socialist Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century

Frances Stracey, Lecturer in Art History, University of London,

Pinot-Gallizio's Industrial Painting: Towards a Surplus of Life

Ben Watson, Music critic,

There is no 'Other' to revolution; Marxism and Music

Section Marxist Studies, Workshop 14. Samedi 2 octobre, 11h30, room 205. Sur le Capital (5) Recent Advances in Marxian Value Theory

Chair: Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College, USA).

Discussant: Gérard Duménil, Modem-Cnrs, France

Simon Mohun, Queen Mary College, UK,
Theory and Measurement: How Do Recent Developments in Value Theory Help?

Dong-Min Rieu, Chungnam National University, Korea, rieudm.cnu.ac.kr
The Case for and Against the New Interpretation

Fred Moseley, Mount Holyoke College, USA,
A Macro-Monetary Interpretation of Marx’s Transformation Problem and a Critique of the ‘New Interpretation’