Break Their Haughty Power

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." IWW Preamble, 1905

The following texts were written between 1973 and the present. Some of them, beginning in the late 1980s, were published in US journals such as Against the Current, New Politics, Critique, Collective Action Notes and Race Traitor; a few have appeared in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Swedish, Polish, Czech and Russian translations. Others are appearing in the Marx / Third Millennium series of Queequeg Publications. The majority, however, were consigned by circumstance to what Marx called "the gnawing critique of the mice." As such, they circulated only in xerox format to very limited circles of readers. I am posting them today, not because they necessarily possess any overarching coherence or because the evolution of one individual is of any particular importance. Rather, since different readers over the years have found different texts to be useful, I am using the new possibilities opened by the web to make them more generally available than they have been in my file cabinets. Critique and comment are invited.

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Loren Goldner, Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class and the Crisis of Bourgeois Ideology in an American Renaissance Writer (2006).

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Loren Goldner, Vanguard of Retrogression: "Postmodern" Fictions as Ideology in the Era of Fictitious Capital (2001), 131 pp. ISBN 0970030819.

Loren Goldner, Ubu Saved From Drowning: Class Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977 (2000), 113 pp. ISBN 0970030800.

“Socialism in One Country” Before Stalin, and the Origins of Reactionary “Anti-Imperialism”: The Case of Turkey, 1917-1925

This text shows that Soviet Russia, well before the triumph of Stalin and “socialism in one country” in 1924, was already subordinating foreign communist movements to its nation-state foreign policy interests. It also shows the existence of a left opposition inside the new Turkish communist movement to this subordination. It has great implications for a critique of today’s “anti-imperialist” ideology.

Loren Goldner, 2009 | Permalink

General Perspectives on the Capitalist Development State and Class Struggle in East Asia

Loren Goldner, 2009 | Permalink

The Biggest October Surprise of All: A World Capitalist Crash

Loren Goldner, 2008 | Permalink

The Situation of Left Communism Today:Interview with the Korean Socialist Workers Newspaper Group (SaNoShin), November-December 2007

Korean Translation: 좌익공산주의의 현황 : 로렌 골드너와의 대담

Loren Goldner, 2008 | Permalink

Fictitious Capital for Beginners

Imperialism, “Anti-Imperialism,” and the Continuing Relevance of Rosa Luxemburg

Loren Goldner, 2007 | Permalink

Left Communism and Trotskyism: A Roundtable

Loren Goldner, 2007 | Permalink

Max Eastman: One American Radical's View of the "Bolshevization" of American Radicalism and a Forgotten, and Unforgettable, Portrait of Trotsky

Loren Goldner, 2006 | Permalink

Clausewitz on the Pampas: An Argentine Snapshot as Latin America Moves Leftward

Loren Goldner, 2006 | Permalink

1973 Redux? Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation

Loren Goldner, 2006 | Permalink

The Critique of Pure Theory: Moishe Postone’s Dialectic of the Abstract and the Abstract

Moishe Postone, Time, Labor and Social Domination: A reinterpretation of Marx’s critical theory (Cambridge UP, 1993, 2003)

Loren Goldner, 2005 | Permalink

Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's

Casualized Workers in Paris Win Several Strikes, Honorably Lose Another With Combined Union and Extra-Union, Legal and Illegal Tactics (1)

Loren Goldner, 2005 | Permalink

China in the Contemporary World Dynamic of Accumulation and Class Struggle: A Challenge for the Radical Left

Loren Goldner, 2005 | Permalink

Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism

Loren Goldner, 2005 | Permalink

Notes on Another Defeat for Workers in the U.S.: The Los Angeles Supermarket Strike of 2003-2004

French Translation: Notes sur une nouvelle défaite des travailleurs américains: A propos de la grève des supermarchés de Los Angeles (Octobre 2003-Février 2004)
German Translation: Ende des Streiks im Einzelhandel: Eine weitere Niederlage für die ArbeiterInnen in den USA
Czech Translation: Poznámky k další porážce dělníků v USA: Losangelská Stávka v Supermarketech, 2003-2004
Italian Translation: Note su un’altra sconfitta dei lavoratori negli U.S.A.

Loren Goldner, 2004 | Permalink

Introduction to the Johnson-Forest Tendency and the Background to “Facing Reality”

Italian Translation: La tendenza Johnson-Forest e il mondo d’oggi

Loren Goldner, 2004 | Permalink

An Insect Collector Puts His Hand In A Hornet's Nest: Christophe Bourseiller's Coffee-Table Book on the Ultra-Left

Christophe Bourseiller, L’Histoire generale de “l’ultra-gauche” (Paris, Ed. Denoel, 2003).

Loren Goldner, 2004 | Permalink

Marx, Hegel, Ricardo: The "Inverted World" in the Heart of the Critique of Political Economy

German Translation: Marx, Hegel, Ricardo: Die “verkehrte Welt” im Herzen der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie

Loren Goldner, 2004 | Permalink

The "Dollar" Crisis and Us

German Translation: Die «Dollarkrise» und Uns
French Translation: La «Crise du Dollar» et Nous
Italian Translation: La «Crisi del Dollaro» e Noi

Loren Goldner, 2004 | Permalink

Recent Class Struggles in the USA

Czech Translation: Současný třídní boj v USA

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Once Again, On Fictitious Capital: Further Reply to Aufheben and Other Critics

French Translation: Sur le capital fictif (version abrégée)
German Translation: Über Fiktives Kapital (gekürtzte Version)

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Joao Bernardo, Labirintos do Fascismo: Na Encruzilhada da Ordem e da Revolta (Porto, Ed. Afrontamento, 2003)

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Franklin Rosemont, Joe Hill: The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture (Chicago, Charles H. Kerr, 2003)

German Translation: Franklin Rosemont, Joe Hill: The IWW and the Making of a Revolutionary Workingclass Counterculture
Italian Translation: Franklin Rosemont, Joe Hill: L’ IWW e la creazione di una controcultura del proletariato rivoluzionario
French Translation: Franklin Rosemont, Joe Hill: Les IWW et la création d’une contre culture ouvrière

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Two Short Texts on Economic Crisis and War

Historical Parallels? Germany 1938/USA 2003
First Inflation, Then Deflation

German Translation: Zwei Kurze Texte Über Ökonomische Krise und Krieg
Historische Parallelen? Deutschland 1938/USA 2003
USA: Zuerst kommt die Inflation, dann die Deflation

French Translation: Paralleles Historiques? L’Allemagne 1938, Etats-Unis 2003

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

A Hollowed-Out Keynesian Warfare State: American Democracy Today and Historically

French Translation: Un “warfare state” keynésien vide de substance: L’évolution de la démocratie américaine d’hier à aujourd’hui

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Pause in the Crisis or the Beginning of a New Boom?

French Translation: Une pause dans la crise ou l’amorce d’un nouveau boom économique?
German Translation: Kommt ein neuer Boom oder legt die Krise nur eine Pause ein?
Italian Translation: Pausa nella crisi o inizio di un nuovo boom?
Czech Translation: USA: pouhá přestávka v krizi, nebo začátek nového boomu?

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Reply to Some Comments/Questions About "Pause in the Crisis?"

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Didn't See The Same Movie: Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che (London/New York, Verso, 2002)

French Translation: Je n’ai pas vus le meme film: Max Elbaum, La révolution dans l’air: les radicaux des années 60 se tournent vers Lénine, Mao et la Che

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Other Comrades Comment on Aufheben vs. Goldner

Loren Goldner, 2003 | Permalink

Production or Reproduction? Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital: Reply to the Aufheben Critique of Remaking of the American Working Class

Loren Goldner, 2002 | Permalink

Fictitious Capital, Real Retrogression

Loren Goldner, 2002 | Permalink

Production or Reproduction? Against A Reductionist Reading of Capital In the Left Milieu, And Elsewhere

Loren Goldner, 2002 | Permalink

Appendix to Aufheben vs. Goldner: Michael Perelman, "Fictitious Capital and the Crisis Theory," in Marx's Crises Theory (1987)

Loren Goldner, 2002 | Permalink

Facing Reality 45 Years Later: Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu

Czech Translation: “Čelem k Realitě” Po 45 Letech: Kritický dialog s Jamesem/Leem/Chaulieuem

Loren Goldner, 2002 | Permalink

De la dominación formal del capital a la dominación real

Loren Goldner y Raúl García Durán (1992)

Loren Goldner, 2002 | Permalink

Del regeneracionismo a los Pactos de la Moncloa

Loren Goldner y Raúl García Durán (1992)

Loren Goldner, 2002 | Permalink

Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social: Deconstruction and Deindustrialization

Loren Goldner, 2001 | Permalink

An American National Bolshevik

Kevin Coogan, Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International (Autonomedia, New York, 1999). 642 p. $16.95.

Loren Goldner, 2001 | Permalink

"Total Capital" Rigor and International Liquidity: A Reply to Robert Brenner

Loren Goldner, 1999 | Permalink

Communism Is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today

German Translation: Kommunismus ist die materielle menschliche Gemeinschaft: Amadeo Bordiga heute
French Translation: Le Communisme est la Communauté Materielle Humaine: Amadeo Bordiga et notre temps
Italian Translation: Il Comunismo è la Comunità Materiale Umana: Amadeo Bordiga Oggi
Czech Translation: Komunismus jako materiální lidské společenství: Amadeo Bordiga dnes
Russian Translation: КОММУНИЗМ: МАТЕРИАЛЬНОЕ СООБЩЕСТВО ЛЮДЕЙ: Амадео Бордига и современность
Korean Translation: 물질적인 인간공동체를: 향하여: 오늘날의아마데오보르디가
Preface to the Swedish edition (2002) of Communism Is the Material Human Community: Amadeo Bordiga Today
Swedish Translation: Kommunismen ar den materiella manskliga gemenskapen

Loren Goldner, 1991 | Permalink

Sharon Zukin, Loft Living Culture and Capital in Urban Change (1989)

Loren Goldner, 1989 | Permalink

Pierre Broué, Trotsky (1988)

Loren Goldner, 1989 | Permalink

Josef Chytry, The Aesthetic State: A Quest in Modern German Thought (1989).

Loren Goldner, 1989 | Permalink

Paul Rabinow, French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment

Loren Goldner, 1989 | Permalink

Joyce Kolko, Restructuring the World Economy

Loren Goldner, 1988 | Permalink

Afro-Anabaptist-Indian Fusion: The Roots of American Radicalism

The Fusion of Anabaptist, Indian and African as the American Radical Tradition
French Translation: La fusion afro-indiano-anabaptiste: Les sources du radicalisme américain

Loren Goldner, 1987 | Permalink

Eduard Gugenberger and Roman Schweidlenka, Mutter Erde, Magie und Politik: Zwischen Faschismus und Neuer Gesellschaft

Eduard Gugenberger and Roman Schweidlenka, Mutter Erde, Magie und Politik: Zwischen Faschismus und Neuer Gesellschaft (Vienna: Verlag für Gesellschaft, 1987).

Loren Goldner, 1987 | Permalink

Peter Bergmann, Nietzsche: The Last Apolitical German

Loren Goldner, 1987 | Permalink

Ernst Bloch, Principle of Hope

Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope 3 vols. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.) N. Plaice, S. Plaice and P. Knight, translators.

Loren Goldner, 1986 | Permalink

Modernism as the Vanguard of a Consumer Aesthetic: Two Views

T.J Clark, The Painting of Modern Life Paris in the Art of Manet and his Followers (1985)
Jerrold Seigel, Bohemian Paris Culture, Politics and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830- 1930 (1986)

Loren Goldner, 1986 | Permalink

On the Nonformation of a Working-Class Political Party in the United States, 1900-1945

Loren Goldner, 1983 | Permalink

From National Bolshevism to Ecologism

Loren Goldner, 1980 | Permalink

History and Realization of the Material Imagination

On the Origins of Modern Science in Neo-Platonism, the Kabbala and the Works of Hermes Trismegistes, and the Implications of these Origins for the Development of a Self-Reflexive Theory of Global Praxis

Loren Goldner, 1979 | Permalink

Their Methodology and Ours

Loren Goldner, 1977 | Permalink

Conjuncture: World Capitalism Since the Collapse of the Bretton Woods System

Loren Goldner, 1977 | Permalink

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