Transition, Austerity and Primitive Accumulation – Left Answers
26 April–1 May, 2013
Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana, Slomškova 18, Ljubljana
Friday, 26 April
17.00– 19.00: Michael Perelman – Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel
21.00: Concert of the Kombinat Female Choir (Muzejska ploščad, Metelkova)
Saturday, 27 April
11.00–12.30: Lev Centrih – The Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation: the socialist, revolutionary and antifascist dimension of the Liberation Front in Yugoslavia and its place in the history of class struggle
13.00–14.30: Panel discussion – Primitive Accumulation as a Concept
- Henry Bernstein – Primitive accumulation: what’s in a term?
- Christoph Hermann – Primitive accumulation or commodification
- Sašo Furlan – On the Production and Reproduction of the Capital Relation
18.00–20.00: Andrew Kliman – The Incoherence of “Transitional Society” as a Marxian Concept
Sunday, 28 April
11.00–12.30: Panel discussion – The Commons: From Primitive Accumulation to Communism
- Tomislav Medak – Reconsidering Economics, Struggles and Autonomy in the Digital Commons
- Jernej A. Prodnik – The Rise of the ‘Information Society’ as the New Phase of Enclosing the Commons
- Erik Swyngedouw – Being-in-Common and the Commons: Exploring the ‘Idea of Communism’ for the Twenty-first Century
13.00–14.30: Panel discussion – Primitive Accumulation in the Post-Socialist Transition and the EU Accession Period
- Branko Bembič – Can a ‘Social Partner’ Put Up a Fight?
- Goran Musić – Deindustrialisation of Serbian Economy, 1991 ̶ 2012
- Joachim Becker – Primitive Accumulation and Integration/Disintegration Processes in Eastern Europe
18.00–20.00: Werner Bonefeld – Primitive Accumulation and Capitalist Accumulation: Critical Notes on Class and Dispossession
Monday, 29 April
9.00–14.00: Guided tour of the political HQ (Baza 20) of the Liberation Front
18.00–20.00: David McNally – Primitive Accumulation, Migrant Workers and Social Reproduction in the Age of Austerity
Tuesday, 30 April
11.00–12.30: Panel discussion – Primitive Accumulation as a Factor in Fiscal Sustainability Policies
- Jan Toporowski – Interest-bearing Capital and the Accumulation of Capital
- Mislav Žitko – Left-Keynesianism: Friend or Foe?
- Marko Kržan – From the Crisis of Public Finance to the Crisis of the Public Sector and the Welfare State
13.00–14.30: Panel discussion – A Socialist Alternative
- Marko Kostanić – Socialist Programmes: Social and Political Contradictions
- Toni Prug – Tracing Egalitarian Social Accumulation: The Case of Privately Rented Housing in the UK
- Anej Korsika – What Is To Be Done with What Is To Be Done?
18.00–20.00: Michael A. Lebowitz – Primitive Accumulation versus Contested Reproduction
Wednesday, 1 May
11.00–13.00: Round table – Building a New Left in the Balkans
- Andrea Milat (SFF)
- Primož Krašovec (DPU)
- Marko Kostanić (CRS)
- Darko Vesić (CPE)
- Boris Kanzleiter (RLS)
18.00–20.00: Round table – Toward a European Left Strategy of Building a Socialist Alternative
- Gabriel Sakellaridis (Syriza)
- Walter Baier (euro!transform)
- Elisabeth Gauthier (Front de Gauche)
- Christina Kaindl (Die Linke)
- Luka Mesec (DPU)