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The return of industrial policy is unmissable, catalyzed by the cumulative shocks of Covid-19 and the war in Ukraine as well as longer-term structural issues: the ecological crisis, faltering productivity and alarm at the dependence of Western states on China’s productive apparatus. Together, (...)
In the first two hundred days of 2022, Taylor Swift’s private jet made 170 flights, covering an average distance of 133 miles. It emitted 8,293 tonnes of carbon dioxide in the process. By way of comparison, the average annual carbon footprint for a US citizen is 14.2 tonnes. In Europe it is (...)
Studying hundreds of elections, we found that political parties increasingly cater to only the well educated and the rich.
Given the steep rise in economic inequality in many parts of the world since the 1980s, one might have expected to see increasing political demands for the (...)
Phil Hearse explains the theory behind the concept.
Supporters of the A*CR have used the term ‘Global Police State’ to describe the situation facing the exploited and oppressed worldwide – and the radical movements that defend them.
But surely it is exaggerated to call the situation in (...)
Review of Persistent Inequalities: Wage Disparity Under Capitalist Competition. By Howard Botwinick. Haymarket Books, 2018, 370 pages, $28 paper.
PERSISTENT INEQUALITIES, BY former union organizer and continuing workplace and political activist turned political economist Howard Botwinick, (...)
Michael Calderbank spoke to Chantal Mouffe about why she thinks the time is right for a left populism
Chantal Mouffe: We currently live in post-democratic societies. This is due first to the blurring of the lines between left and right, a situation that I call ‘post-politics’. This comes (...)
“I have not the shadow of doubt that Hinduism owes all the great traditions that the Brahmans have left for Hinduism. They have left a legacy for India, for which every Indian, no matter to what varna he may belong, owes a deep debt of gratitude.” M.K. Gandhi,1921. This essay is on how one (...)
“Populism” is a magical word. Its mysterious power unites the Erdogan and Putin governments, Latin American leftists like Evo Morales and the late Hugo Chavez, the resurgent Right in Europe and the United States, Hungarian and Polish anti-communist parties, Podemos, the Eurocommunism of the (...)
Review of Eric Fassin, Populisme: le grand ressentiment (Textuel, 2017).
Shunned by the White House and the right-wing US media machine, Steve Bannon recently sought to reestablish his image as a political mastermind by embarking on a European speaking tour. If Bannon had begun to suspect (...)
Lecture by Chantal Mouffe - Rethinking Europe
In January 2018 the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office started its new lecture series “Rethinking Europe” and invited the political theorist Chantal Mouffe for her lecture “The Populist Moment and the Future of Democracy”, which has been (...)
The electoral cycle of 2017 is a turning point in France’s political landscape; the presidential and legislative elections were a major rupture which upset the political field. Historically, French politics were structured by a dividing line opposing two poles along the left/right cleavage, (...)
Since the election of Narendra Modi in India in 2014 and Donald Trump in the USA in 2016, political analysts and commentators around the globe have increasingly used the concept of fascism to capture the rise of new right-wing authoritarianism in various countries.
Activists and academics (...)
The “populist moment” is a concept proposed by the philosopher Chantal Mouffe. According to Mouffe, globalization, the hegemony of financial capital and the integration of social democracy into neo-liberal politics have created a “post-democracy”.
The principle of the sovereign people has (...)
Factory Complex (Heung-soon Im, 2014)
“…labor-power is a commodity which its possessor, the wage-worker, sells to the capitalist. Why does he sell it? It is in order to live.”
– Karl Marx, Wage, Labor and Capital
Since its very formation, but particularly since the late twentieth (...)
The post-Marxist philosophy of Ernesto Laclau (1935-2014) and Chantal Mouffe seems to inspire some leaders and activists of Podemos (Spanish state) and La France Insoumise. In order to better understand the ins and outs of this new philosophy, we reproduce here a critique written in 2014 by an (...)
The massive surge in support for Scottish independence in the recent referendum was motivated more by democratic than nationalist sentiment. It was an expression of long term working class alienation from the political decision-making process. The spur was a Tory-imposed austerity the Scots (...)
Class consciousness: ”The awareness of individuals in a particular social class that they share common interests and a common social situation. Class consciousness is associated with the development of a ‘class-for-itself’ where individuals within the class unite to pursue their shared (...)
Eric Hobsbawm is a man of the Enlightenment: does he not define socialism as the last and most extreme heir of the eighteenth century’s rationalism? [1] So it is not surprising that the distinction between ’modern and ’primitive or ’archaic has an important place in his work. [2] However, (...)
“What else does the history of ideas prove, than that intellectual production changes in character in proportion as material production is changed? The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
AT THE UNIVERSITY of Chicago, where Economics is taught according to (...)
Ellen Meiksins Wood saw a great danger in the reluctance of today’s intellectuals to criticize capitalism.
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The death of Ellen Wood on January 14 represents an immense loss for socialists everywhere. As a frequent contributor to Socialist Register since her first essay (...)
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