Mutazioni del capitalismo globale : un'analisi congiunturale

Capitalism is in question for us once again. "Creative destruction" characterizes and pushes its development, Schumpeter said. But Marx had already inscribed capitalism, in the Grundrisse, in the sign of the "permanent revolution". In the crisis of the early seventies of the last century this revolution took on a new pace, between financialization, "logistics revolution", new production geographies, transformation of the State and consolidated social models in many parts of the world. It began to emerge what, after the end of the Soviet Union, would be called globalization. Critical and revolutionary thinking has attempted to grasp these transformations and fix them in a concept, often focusing on what capitalism is no longer ("postfordism", for example) but also trying to offer new definitions, "cognitive capitalism" or more recently "plate capitalism", to give only two examples. We do not intend here to discuss the merits and limits of these and other theoretical formalizations, which at least in the most interesting cases still have the merit of bringing attention to new emerging compositions of the work, on a new figure of the constitutive antagonism of the capital relationship. Only, we record a delay, as if there were a gap with respect to speed and character in certain protean aspects of contemporary capitalism, whose transformations continually displace the models, the "exposure" we could still say with Marx, forcing us to reopen the "research".