Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal perspectives seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the pursuit of profit. But it demolishes the assumption that this can be put down to the evolution of economic rationality. By means of a deep engagement…mehr
Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal perspectives seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the pursuit of profit. But it demolishes the assumption that this can be put down to the evolution of economic rationality. By means of a deep engagement with the concrete historical reality of capitalist economies, Gerstenberger establishes that, wherever capitalism has been tamed, this has been achieved only by a combination of energetic social contestation and political intervention. First published in German in 2018, the present English-language edition makes a sweeping history of capitalist violence by one of the preeminent theorists of capitalist society working today available to a wider readership. Winner of the 2023 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.
Heide Gerstenberger is a German social theorist who, until 2005 was Professor for the Theory of Bourgeous Society at the University of Bremen. Her major work on state theory, Impersonal Power, was published in the Historical Materialism Book Series in 2007.
Inhaltsangabe
Preliminary Observations to Market and Violence 1 On Direct Violence in Pitiless Conditions 2 Armed World Trade Robbery and regulations Overseas Trade Monopolies Just Another Commodity First Theoretical Remark: On Merchants and Capitalists 3 Historical Preconditions for Capitalist Accumulation in Metropolitan Capitalist Countries Competition Set Free The Pacification of Transport Routes The Capital of Industrial Capitalism The Liberation of Wage Labour from Coercive Political Power Servitude, Slavery, Free and Unfree Wage Labour in the United States Second Theoretical Remark: The Political Economy of Capitalist Labour 4 Appropriation Abroad Forced Trade Territorial Sovereignty Fiscal Exploitation Tributes, Poll Taxes and Labour Services Limits to Taxation Settlement and Expulsion Excursus: Justifications Practices of Settlement Teaching a Lesson Making Indigenous People into ‘Natives’ Third Theoretical Remark: Capitalist Colonial Rule Labour under Coercive Colonial Power Fourth Theoretical Remark: Colonial State Violence 5 The World at War The Burdens of the ‘Great War’ on African Shoulders The War of the Others 6 The Domestication of Industrial Capitalism in the Metropolitan Capitalist States England USA France Germany Fifth Theoretical Remark: The Functioning of Domesticated Capitalism and Its Vulnerability 7 Domesticated Capitalism in Globalised Competition Preconditions of Globalisation Decisions The Political End to the ‘Trente Glorieuses’ 8 Market and Violence in Globalised Capitalism Sixth Theoretical Remark: Unbounded Exploitation Forced Sex Work Basic Patterns of Labour Exploitation in Globalised Capitalism The Boundless Exploitation of ‘Foreigners’ Seventh Theoretical Remark: States and Their Margins Unbounded Exploitation ‘Offshore’ Unbounded ‘Inshore’ Exploitation in Non-metropolitan Capitalist Countries Eighth Theoretical Remark: Class Analysis? The Political Geography of Poison Unbounding the World of Commodities Commercialised Force of Arms Physical Nature, Production and Violence Ninth Theoretical Remark: PostColonial States as a Theoretical Challenge On the New Political Economy of Violent Criminality Tenth Theoretical Remark: Violent Criminality in Global Capitalism Concluding Remarks on Market and Violence Postscript Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects
Preliminary Observations to Market and Violence 1 On Direct Violence in Pitiless Conditions 2 Armed World Trade Robbery and regulations Overseas Trade Monopolies Just Another Commodity First Theoretical Remark: On Merchants and Capitalists 3 Historical Preconditions for Capitalist Accumulation in Metropolitan Capitalist Countries Competition Set Free The Pacification of Transport Routes The Capital of Industrial Capitalism The Liberation of Wage Labour from Coercive Political Power Servitude, Slavery, Free and Unfree Wage Labour in the United States Second Theoretical Remark: The Political Economy of Capitalist Labour 4 Appropriation Abroad Forced Trade Territorial Sovereignty Fiscal Exploitation Tributes, Poll Taxes and Labour Services Limits to Taxation Settlement and Expulsion Excursus: Justifications Practices of Settlement Teaching a Lesson Making Indigenous People into ‘Natives’ Third Theoretical Remark: Capitalist Colonial Rule Labour under Coercive Colonial Power Fourth Theoretical Remark: Colonial State Violence 5 The World at War The Burdens of the ‘Great War’ on African Shoulders The War of the Others 6 The Domestication of Industrial Capitalism in the Metropolitan Capitalist States England USA France Germany Fifth Theoretical Remark: The Functioning of Domesticated Capitalism and Its Vulnerability 7 Domesticated Capitalism in Globalised Competition Preconditions of Globalisation Decisions The Political End to the ‘Trente Glorieuses’ 8 Market and Violence in Globalised Capitalism Sixth Theoretical Remark: Unbounded Exploitation Forced Sex Work Basic Patterns of Labour Exploitation in Globalised Capitalism The Boundless Exploitation of ‘Foreigners’ Seventh Theoretical Remark: States and Their Margins Unbounded Exploitation ‘Offshore’ Unbounded ‘Inshore’ Exploitation in Non-metropolitan Capitalist Countries Eighth Theoretical Remark: Class Analysis? The Political Geography of Poison Unbounding the World of Commodities Commercialised Force of Arms Physical Nature, Production and Violence Ninth Theoretical Remark: PostColonial States as a Theoretical Challenge On the New Political Economy of Violent Criminality Tenth Theoretical Remark: Violent Criminality in Global Capitalism Concluding Remarks on Market and Violence Postscript Bibliography Index of Names Index of Subjects
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