Conference announcement

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marx International Congress III  :  Capital and Humanity
UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS X - NANTERRE
September 26-29, 2001
120 workshops, 500 participants, In association with one hundred journals
and labs
Organized by Actuel Marx,  PUF/CNRS


The third millenium begins under the aegis of capital, the agent of a
process of globalization which has been effectively brought to its
completion the economic, political, and cultural unity of the human
species, with the result that all local or particular issues have,
henceforth become issues involving everyone. The result is that the future
is now a common one. The process of unification and division which has been
under way, at a constantly-accelerating pace, since the beginning of the
modern era, reaches its culmination in the generalised exploitation of all
human and material resources with a view to profit, within the context of a
globalised market organised in terms of the domination exercised by the
centre over its various peripheries. It nevertheless remains that it is
within the context of such a predicament that we find the emergence of new
agents of change, able to take on and to call into question the dominant
order: proletarians, peoples, women, city-dwellers, intellectuals,
peasants, technicians, scientists and thinkers. Such possibilities have
been evident in Seattle, in Chiapas, in Brazil, in Korea, in the various
Euromarches and Eurostrikes, in the grassroots movements which proliferate
across all continents. On all sides, the idea of changing the world is
again arising. The contours can be deciphered of a possible overcoming of
the division between intellectual and executional work, of a greater
commonness in the sharing-out of the human condition, involving the
emergence of a new ordinary man and a new generation of citizens of the
world. There remains the task of uncovering potentialities and deciphering
signs, the task of giving a name to the future. Our will is to contribute
to the emergence of a universal awareness of shared responsibilities.


Like the previous Congress, these meetings are organized by Scientific
Sessions, including: Anthropology, Culture, Ecology, Economics, Education,
Feminism, Law, Marxist Studies, History, Languages/Literature, Philosophy,
Political Sciences, Psychoanalysis, Social Mouvement, Socialism, Sociology.

REGISTRATION
Standard registration fee: 100 F
Support fee: from 200 F. Contributions will help bring participants from
Third-World countries.
Day-fee: 40 F, for one-day participation.
Free for students and low income.
Free for all new subscriber to Actuel Marx, either in 2000 or 2001.
Inscription should be preferably made  by checks payable to Philosophie
Pratique, mailed to: Congrès Marx International, 19, bd du Midi, 92000
Nanterre, France
Participants from foreign countries are welcome to pay at the beginning of
the Congress.
Following registration, each participant will receive a booklet containing
the program of the Congress and a summary of each paper.
Information about the Congress can be accessed through our internet site:

http://www.u-paris10.fr/ActuelMarx/index.htm

There you can:
- register.
- find the email addresses of persons in charge of scientific sections and
submit papers.
- find practical information (housing, transportation,...).

The main language of the  Congress is French. A number of workshops will,
however, be held in English or in Spanish. Simultaneous translation will be
provided to the degree possible.

For additional information you may contact:
Jacques Bidet, Congrès Marx International, 19 Bd du Midi,
92000 Nanterre, France.
Email: ActuelMarx@xxxxxxxxxxxx

 ECONOMICS IN THE       MARX INTERNATIONAL III CONGRESS

 Capitalism in the 21st century

The economic section of the Marx International II Congress was held with
great success, with 18 workshops, a plenary session, and about 70 presented
papers. The main themes of Marxist economics were covered, with a special
emphasis on the transformations of capitalism and its most recent
developments, including the structural crisis which began in the 1970s and
the financial crises of the 1990s. A number of contributions were published
in a volume in the collection Actuel Marx Confrontation, by the Presses
Universitaires de France, under the title Le triangle infernal. Crise,
Mondialisation, Financiarisation.The workshops of the economic section of
the third Congress will follow the same format. They are largely motivated
by the major themes of contemporary capitalism (its recent developments and
tendencies), under the general title: Capitalism in the 21st century.
Obvously, the various components of these transformations cannot be fully
segregated; nonetheless a list of such themes is provided on the following
page. Far from excluding economic history and the analysis of the basic
concepts of Marxism, the focus suggests specific treatments of these
issues. History can be used to place  contemporary developments within a
historical perspective; basic concepts can be discussed from the viewpoint
of their explanatory power vis-à-vis contemporary capitalism.
 Themes for the economic section

        -       Out of crisis?- Financial instability.- The economics of 
information.
New economics.- Neoliberalism, the power of finance, inequalities.-
American hegemony. The hierarchies of the capitalist world.-    Peripheral
countries and inequality.-      Unemployment: abatement and persistance.-
Capital-labor relations, wage labor.-   Wage labor solidarity: retirement and
health insurance.?A number of worshops will be sponsored by journals, labs,
and other groups, including: Rethinking Marxism (USA), Capital and Class
(United Kingdom). Research in Political Economy (USA), Cahiers marxistes
(Belgium), La lettre de la régulation, Issues, Innovations
(France).?Papers addressing with the economics of socialism (past,
contemporary, and future, models of socialism) will be presented in the
section on Socialism (consult the internet site).


To summit a paper for the Economic section,  send a title and a ten-line
summary to :
Gérard DUMENIL, 39, rue d'Estienne d'Orves, 92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses -
email : dumenil@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Before April 30, 2001


Louis Proyect
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