Re: AUT: Fascism

[Arianna <ari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry, forgot to mention:
Il posto dei calzini. la svolta linuistica dell'economia e i suoi effetti sulla politica. (Bollati Boringhieri, Torino: 1999) p. 90-91 (my translation)
on the relationship within the market and the state Marazzi analyses Reich's The work of nations, the idea of endogenous development and immaterial labour.
Arianna


At 15:49 22/02/2002, you wrote:
>Arianna,
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>Where did you get this quote from Marazzi?
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>Chris
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>> just thought in relation to your point this extract might be interesting:
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>> 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)
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>> 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.
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>> >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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