Re: AUT: Fascism

["cwright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arianna,

Where did you get this quote from Marazzi?

Chris

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From: "Arianna" <a.bove@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> just thought in relation to your point this extract might be interesting:
>
> In the long run, the products of immaterial labour will be the crucial
assets for each nation: scientific and technological research, training of
the labour-force, development of management, communication, electronic
financial networks. In the universe of intellectual labour we find:
researchers, engineers, computer scientists, lawyers, some creative
accountant, management consultants, financial advisors, publicists, the
practicioners, editors and journalists, university professors. This rank is
destined to accelerate the process of decline of all activities of the
taylorist kind, i.e. the repetitive and executive ones, that are easy to
reproduce in countries with low-cost labour force; whilst services to
people, even though still important in a society with a strong tertiary
sector, cannot benefit from material subsidies, since they are not,
according to Reich, value creating activities.
> The economists resoning runs more or less like this: the globalisation of
the economy does no longer allow one to refer ownership of capital to the
national composition of the means of production. For instance, a Ford is the
result of partial and combined activities that are dispersed around the
globe and concerted within global webs, where what counts is efficiency and
the productivity of communication. The car that results from this process of
productin is a composite of parts produced in different nations, by means of
a capital of multinational ownership.
> However, what is lost as a consequence of the de-nationalisation of
capital ownership (i.e. the means of production, costant capital) is
recuperated at the level of ownership of immaterial labour, of the control
of knowledge production. The denationalisation of physical-material capital
is counterbalanced by the nationalisation of knowledge, and the command on
its organisation. Buy American means from now on: Valorise american
knowledge. Nationality, according to Reichs reasoning, is recuperated
through a strategic investment in activities that create more value, i.e.
immaterial activities that characterise the post-fordist mode of production.
The income generated by immaterial activity must be nationalised in order to
deal with the unemployment of the unskilled American labour-force and reduce
the disparity of income between skilled labourers and the working poors
(competition with emerging countries) without inhibiting the comparative
advantage of the US with respect to the rest of the world. American pride
ought to function as solidaristic glue:  when compared with competitive
countries, the greater wealth generated by greater productivity and skill of
immaterial labour provides the fiscal means to temper the deterioration of
the life conditions of unqualified and defeated American people. (Marazzi:
p90-91)
>
>
> At 13:12 21/02/2002, you wrote:
> >If Negri+Hardt are right, we are seeing the decline of
> >the nation-state. With the decline of the
> >nation-state, nationalism also starts to die.
> >
> >Hence, to equate fascism with extreme nationalism,
> >won't make too much sense in a couple of years (hardly
> >anyone will be seen as a fascist).
>
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