Andy Higginbottom- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Kingston University
Andy Higginbottom
- PhD
- Professor (Associate) at Kingston University
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Introduction
Andy Higginbottom currently works at the Politics, Kingston University. Andy does research in Political Economy. Their most recent publication is 'The Marikana Massacre in South Africa: the Results of Toxic Collusion'.
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News articles from the scene published in Morning Star:
El Ejido - A Human Rights Emergency
Moroccan Voices from El Ejido
Is El Ejido Europe's New Apartheid?
Analysis of the Economic Relation
The Foreigners Law in Practice
Appendix 1: Statement of the El Ejido Immigrants Commission
Appendix 2: Crisis in the Orchard of Europe
Appendix 3: Two...
Book Review. Capitalism is destroying planet Earth at an accelerating pace. Crude Capitalism (CC) goes a long way to explaining why the capitalist powers remain so fully committed to oil, come what may. CC is deeply impressive for the range it covers and the quality of the analysis. Hanieh's explanation of how the global oil industry became central...
The approach initiated by Marini and developed by all the essays here advances the Marxist paradigm in a qualitative way based around the concept of labour super-exploitation. The Prologue and the first essay emphasise the specificity of Latin America in its relations with the capitalist world system from a revolutionary class perspective. Building...
Este trabalho busca desenvolver e sistematizar os avanços que Ruy Mauro Marini apresentou em relação as análises de Karl Marx de O Capital sobre as formas de exploração que o Capital emprega para obter a mais-valia. O conceito de superexploração do trabalho articula no plano teórico os aspectos históricos que Marx não vinculou aos aspectos mais ger...
Andy Higginbottom analyzes the influence of Ruy Mauro Marini on dependency theory and the concept of superexploitation. Marini, he explains, carried Marx's legacy forward—but there is still work to be done in the twenty-first century.
At the heart of ‘Capital’ Volume 1, and running through the subsequent volumes, is the distinction between absolute surplus-value and relative surplus-value. These two categories play a central role in the historical arc and logical determinations. The thesis is that labour super-exploitation is a category of surplus-value at the same ontological l...
The presentation critiques the Brennerite 'Marxist' interpretation of the 'second slavery' by Charlie Post. Post's analysis confuses constant capital and fixed capital, as well as making other errors. In an alternative theorisation, the specific contradictions of the super-exploitation of enslaved Africans as living labour are addressed as a violen...
This article investigates Marx’s Capital as a theoretical resource for analysing both the form and content of the modern corporation. We assess two recent contributions critiquing the corporation. The article argues that Marx advanced from his initial ambivalent comments on the form of the joint stock company and the credit system to a more categor...
The statues of Edward Colston and Cecil Rhodes are symbols of the violent system of racism and exploitation that has lasted for 500 years! Slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism... capitalism, imperialism. Drawing on the work of Walter Rodney and other Pan-African Marxists the presentation identifies the corporate and state structures behind the sta...
The oil giants Shell and BP are each responsible for more worldwide green house gas emissions than all the emissions produced inside the UK. The global warming effects of mining giants BHP Billiton and Anglo American contribute about three quarters and two thirds of UK domestic emissions.Just these four companies are together responsible for four t...
La matanza de setenta mil tamiles, en 2009, no es conocida. A través del Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas, EU y Reino Unido han convergido con Sri Lanka para encubrir la escala de la atrocidad. Frente a esta situación de impunidad internacional, la diáspora tamil presento su caso al Tribunal Permanente de los Pu...
The paper addresses the gap between two conventional Marxist readings of the relation between capitalism and the enslavement of Africans. The first reading sees slavery as part of the process of primitive accumulation of capital, the ‘original sin’ of dispossession. The second reading sees capitalism as such as exclusively based on the exploitation...
This article summarizes the main points under debate between David Harvey and John Smith concerning international value transfers and labor superexploitation. It evaluates that superexploitation is more than a descriptive term, rather a central concept for understanding contemporary imperialism. The article assesses claims concerning the rise of Ch...
A Revista de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre as Américas (ISSN 1984-1639) é uma publicação quadrimestral do Departamento de Estudos
Latino-Americanos da Universidade de Brasília (UnB), indexa da embases de dados Nacionais e Internacionais, como o LATINDEX, DOAJ,,
REDIB, Sumários e periódicos CAPES. Na classificação QUALIS da CAPES está situada como B1 na...
This article reflects on Marikana five years after the massacre and after the state convened Farlam Commission. The article moves through three different domains of analysis. Firstly I will consider how the Marikana events are explained, contrasting the official and popular versions, as they were articulated through Farlam. Next I consider the role...
The paper addresses the gap between two conventional Marxist readings of the relation between capitalism and the enslavement of Africans. The first reading sees slavery as part of the process of primitive accumulation of capital, the ‘original sin’ of dispossession. The second reading sees capitalism as such as exclusively based on the exploitation...
I meet Andy Higginbottom at a café at the South Bank Centre in London, where people normally come to enjoy art, festivals and plays. But we are not here to talk about the delights of the bustling city, we are here to talk about its dark underbelly of neo-colonial relations with the Global South, and whether dependency theory is still relevant for u...
The article highlights that a notable characteristic of British capitalism is the concentration on oil and mining corporations alongside banks. The predominance of extractive industries needs to be explained historically and theoretically. Marx's concept of price of production is developed to include additional profits. The theme is explored throug...
Examination of foreign investment inflows, stock, and outgoing profit flows from Latin America in the neoliberal period shows that the basic tenet of the dependency thesis still holds: there is a huge and underreported transfer of surplus value out of the continent. European capital has overtaken U.S. capital as a source of investment, and within t...
wealth, value, money, hence abstract labour, develop in the measure that concrete labour becomes a totality of different modes of labour embracing the world market (Marx, 1972: 253).
Colombian society is in an ongoing violent confrontation in which research is immediately referenced by policy debate. Assumptions about crimes of powerful actors, trusting or skeptical, oblige a choice between a corporate-led and a victim-led investigation. A fresh response to social movements seeking international support to overcome human rights...
Andy Higginbottom argues that in Colombia neo-liberal globalization has taken on certain peculiarities fueling the violent conflict. He suggests that the propertied classes have benefited from economic and social violations against the civilian population, especially from the dispossession of the peasantry. This is how the state is laying the groun...
The case of intense agriculture in Almería, south east Spain is of not simply exploitation but super-exploitation of the immigrant workforce. Under the invernadero plastic hothouses, a system of intensive farming technology has been wedded to intense labour exploitation and oppressive conditions. The mobilisation of racist violence that was targete...
