“[Neither] orphans of the labour movement, nor prophets of the communism to come, we participate in the class struggle as it is on a daily basis and as it produces theory.”
Chuang interview with two members of @endnotesjournal.bsky.social about the group’s history:
https://chuangcn.org/2025/02/neither-prophets-nor-orphans-interview/
Chuang interview with two members of @endnotesjournal.bsky.social about the group’s history:
https://chuangcn.org/2025/02/neither-prophets-nor-orphans-interview/
Comments
“In its self-conception, the project was “open” in the sense that it was close to the tendency known as “Open Marxism,” which had emerged from the Conference of Socialist Economics in the 1970s, with people like Werner Bonefeld and John Holloway.”
“their debate with Dauvé had this capaciousness to it that was seriously lacking in many other debates [...]: it touched on everything, revolutionary history, communist theory, and meta-theoretical questions about the nature of communist thought.”
“Instead of claiming that one of the proletariat’s fragments was becoming a new revolutionary subject, we were saying that decomposition or fragmentation itself is the core feature of this period that we should be paying attention to.”
“the movements experienced the state as irrational, because it was spending a lot of money while [...], putting the crisis on the backs of the workers. So what should have been a crisis of capitalism became a crisis around the state, democracy, representation and so on.”
“So that was the immediate political implication: to fight against certain forms of social reproduction theory, all these theories like eco-feminism that have a more positive conception of women’s reproductive activities...”