ABF-huset
Sveavägen 41 in central Stockholm
Nach einer Reihe erfolgreicher Konferenzen in den letzten Jahren veranstaltet das Center for Marxist Studies (CMS), eine Mitgliedsorganisation von transform! europe, eine internationale Konferenz zur ursprünglichen Akkumulation.
Die internationale Konferenz Marx22 findet vom 28. bis 30. Oktober 2022 in Stockholm statt (Arbeitssprache: Englisch).
Why did capitalism emerge, and why does it persist? Marx argued that an understanding of capitalism’s blood-soaked prehistory is necessary if we want to understand and change the system. In the present era, when everything – from health care and water to our emotions and outer space – is rapidly transforming into commodities, it is more important than ever to think through the processes of capital accumulation.
For capitalism to exist at all, a class of people must be separated from the means of production and forced to sell their labor power in exchange for wages. But such a working class does not appear out of nothing – it must itself be created. The historical processes that gave rise to our modern class societies were accompanied, every step of the way, by violence and repression against those who resisted proletarianization and the plundering of the commons. Karl Marx called this process “primitive accumulation,” and he described capital coming into the world as “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.”
Within the Marxist tradition, the concept of “primitive accumulation” has been used in two different ways. First, the term has been used to delineate a historical period that provided the conditions for the capitalist mode of production to emerge. Second, “primitive accumulation” has been used to name the ongoing processes through which capital creates new markets, expands to new spheres of life, and reinvents itself by incorporating new resources.
Human trafficking, the commodification of water, and the grand plans of Silicon Valley moguls to colonize Mars are only a few examples of how our bodies, life-worlds, and surroundings are incorporated into capital’s process of accumulation. How can we understand these processes? And what can we do to limit and roll back the expansion of capital’s rule?
Interpretation: English, some of the sessions will be held in Swedish
Organisation:
Please find here the preliminary programme schedule of the conference.
Informal mixer at the venue restaurant/pub.
Book reading by poet, playwright and critic Athena Farrokhzad
The organisers
Location: Zäta
Sandro Mezzadra
Location: Zäta
Aktivister från Alla ska bo kvar, Allt åt alla och Ort till ort. Moderatorer: Maria Wallstam & Ilhan Kellecioglu
Location: Hjärtat
Magnus Hörnqvist, Johan Lindgren med flera. Moderator: Shabane Barot. Arr: Fronesis.
Location: Kata
David Jivegård, Hugo Lundberg, Hedvig Lärka, Carl Wilén. Moderator: Vanja Carlsson. Arr: Fronesis.
Location: Palme
transform! Europe
Location: Sandler
Tidningen Brand
Location: Per Albin
Erik Hallberg & Lars Nyström
Location: Branting
Anders Ramsay
Location: Branting
Olivia Maury
Location: Branting
Gavin Rae
Location: Branting
Aaron Benanav
Location: Zäta
Gavin Rae. Arr. !transform europe
Location: Hjärtat
Paneldiskussion med Leandro Mulinari, Lina Mohageb & Håkan Blomqvist. Samtalsledare: John Hörnquist
Location: Kata
Panel discussion with Søren Mau, Carl Cassegård, Lotte Schack och Carl Wilén. Moderator: Evelina Johansson Wilén. Arr: Röda Rummet.
Location: Palme
Podcasten Rekreation
Location: Sandler
Carolina Uppenberg
Location: Branting
Tommie Petersson
Location: Branting
Matti Kortesoja
Location: Per Albin
Carlos Felipe Da Silva Costa
Location: Per Albin
Ilhan Kellecioglu
Location: Branting
Güven Savul
Location: Per Albin
Location: Zäta
Panel with Cecilia Cavalcante-Schuback, David Payne, Gustav Strandberg, Kim West
Location: Palme
Arr: Fronesis
Location: Sandler
Maria Küchen, Markus Gunneflo & Roman Privalov. Moderator: Majsa Allelin
Location: Zäta
Johan Alfonsson
Location: Branting
Beth Geglia
Location: Per Albin
Matthew T. Huber presents his book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
Location: Kata
Tony Kenttä
Location: Branting
Tor Hammer
Location: Per Albin
Mats Deland
Location: Branting
Carlos Felipe Da Silva Costa
Location: Per Albin
Tomas Härdin & David Zachariah
Location: Kata
Allt åt Alla Kvinnofront
Location: Hjärtat
Samtal om tre böcker om klimat och kapitalism av och med Herman Geijer, Rikard Hjorth Warlenius, Ståle Holgersen. Moderator: Shabane Barot
Location: Kata
Mathias Wåg, John Hörnqvist & Fransisco Contreras
Location: Palme
Allt åt alla Göteborg
Location: Sandler
Viola Bao
Location: Branting
Matthew T. Huber
Location: Per Albin
Krista Lillemets
Location: Branting
Tony Kenttä
Location: Per Albin
Puya Yekerusta
Location: Branting
Vivek Chibber
Location: Zäta