The following texts were written between 1973 and the present. Some of them, beginning in the late 1980s, were published in US journals such as Against the Current, New Politics, Critique, Collective Action Notes and Race Traitor; some have appeared translations. Others are appearing in the Marx / Third Millennium series of Queequeg Publications.

The majority, however, were consigned by circumstance to what Marx called "the gnawing critique of the mice." As such, they circulated only in xerox format to very limited circles of readers. I am posting them today, not because they necessarily possess any overarching coherence or because the evolution of one individual is of any particular importance. Rather, since different readers over the years have found different texts to be useful, I am using the new possibilities opened by the web to make them more generally available than they have been in my file cabinets.

Critique and comment are invited at: lrgoldner@alum.mit.edu

Media: KPFA’s “Guns and Butter”, 2007: Interview on “fictitious capital”

Link: http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/4159

“Interview with independent writer and activist, Loren Goldner. Loren Goldner is author of numerous articles on political economy including “International Liquidity Crisis and Class Struggle”; “The Dollar Crisis and Us”; “1973 Redux: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Decline of Dollar-Centered World Accumulation”; “Two Short Texts on Economic Crisis and War”; and “Fictitious Capital and the Transition Out of Capitalism”, among many other essays.”

http://www.kpfa.org/archives/20070404-Wed1300.m3u

August 27, 2007 bthp

Media English

"Capital's ceaseless striving towards the general form of wealth drives labor beyond the limits of its natural paltriness and thus creates the material elements for the development of the rich individuality which is as all-sided in its production as in its consumption, and whose labor also no longer appears as labor, but as the full development of activity itself, in which natural necessity in its direct form has disappeared, because a historically created need has replaced a natural one. This is why capital is productive; i.e. an essential relation for the development of the productive forces. It ceases to exist only where the development of these productive forces themselves encounters its barrier in capital itself." - Marx, Grundrisse

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