Re: <nettime> managerialism

Ari, I have this ongoing mapping project, to develop and use it as an illustration similar to what you asked for, though it still is in progress: https://graphcommons.com/graphs/64d91469-5f7d-4dba-9204-c8574945948c?auto=true

If zoom out, the cluster of nodes looks like a ball shape. If you imagine a midline, cutting the form from the west to the east it would be dividing the ball in two hemispheres. The line would also represents the flow of time and political 'center'. From middle to up would be political right, and down political left. Then adding two imaginary parallel lines one little bit above the midline and other below we would get three fields:

1. Upper / top: this field would represents where managerial classes are serving for capitalists class fractions under liberal and conservative capitalist leadership and ideology (from little to no compromise to working classes),

2. Lower / down: nodes located in this field represent managerial classes alignment with the agency and the ideology of organized working classes, radical social democracy, socialism, communism from little to no compromise to capitalist classes,

3. Middle field between the two lines: which is divided by the midline is where the managerial class has been developing its own consciousness in struggle and compromise with capitalist and working classes. Nodes representing alignment and compromising between managerial and working classes are concentrated in the below (southern) part of this field. Whereas alignment and compromise with capitalists are represented by the nodes are located in the above (northern) part.

This analytical map only illustrates the ideological elements and links. Almost all nodes, from left to right up to down, are members of managerial classes, including Marx himself, or even Bakunin.

Analyses of Van Der Pijl, and Dumenil and Levy strongly link this ideological aspect and relationships to Marx' class formation and fractional analysis, developed in Capital.

Orsan

On 9 Jan 2018, at 19:10, ari <ari@kein.org> wrote:

Orsan, would you mind explaining this with some illustration of where the managerial class has mediated, in alliance with the working class, during the long 20th century?