Category: Theory
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Occupy Socialism
Vancouver — 29 September 2012. Alternatives to Economic Inequality, Imperialist War and Ecological Destruction View complete playlist (in 3 parts) or watch individual parts here: Part 2 (20 mins) and Part … Watch video »
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Social Democracy After the Cold War
Edited by Bryan Evans and Ingo Schmidt, published by AU Press. Guest speaker: Leo Panitch. Offering a comparative look at social democratic experience since the Cold War, the volume examines … Watch video »
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Cockburn and Vidal: a Dying Breed
In just the last few weeks, the radical left has lost two of its most important, elegant and eccentric voices, Alexander Cockburn and Gore Vidal. Much (virtual) ink has already … Keep reading »
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Overture: The Conductor and the Conducted
The following is an excerpt from Michael Lebowitz’s new book, The Contradictions of “Real Socialism”: the Conductor and the Conducted, Monthly Review Press, 2012. It is posted with the kind … Keep reading »
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The Euro Crisis and the European Fiscal Pact
The following Bullet is from an important speech by Sahra Wagenknecht [translated by Samuel Putinja], newly elected co-vice president and important theoretician of the German radical party Die Linke, during … Keep reading »
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Political Crisis, the Left and the Possibility of a New Historical Bloc
The combination of economic crisis, social devastation and open political crisis in ‘weak links’ of the European Project such as Greece has raised the possibility of social and political change. … Keep reading »
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Lessons of the Comintern Experience
Toronto — 12 May 2012. Presentations by: Helen Scott, University of Vermont – Rebuilding the International: Rosa Luxemburg and the Comintern John Riddell – The Workers’ Government: Fiction, Pseudonym or … Watch video »
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The Dirty Picture of Neoliberalism
India’s New Economic Policy The Bollywood movie The Dirty Picture (apparently) runs on three things: entertainment, entertainment and entertainment. The dirty picture of neoliberalism runs on three things, as well: class, … Keep reading »
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Lenin and Occupy
Many socialists have cheered Lars Lih’s demolition of the textbook interpretation of Lenin’s work in Lenin Rediscovered (2008) without examining how many of our own preconceptions on the subject are … Keep reading »
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Capitalist Life-Crises and The North American Left: Problems and Prospects
The struggles across the Middle East and North Africa and on-going resistance to austerity in Europe catalysed a fightback in North America – the Occupy Movement – that no one … Keep reading »
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Greece: From Despair to Resistance
On Sunday 12 February 2012 the people of Greece, in demonstrations and street fights all over the country expressed in a massive, collective and heroic way their anger against the … Keep reading »
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Deutscher Prize Lecture 2011
London — 11 November 2011. History versus Theory:a Commentary on Marx’s Method of Capital The 2010 Deutscher Memorial Prize was awarded to David Harvey for his book The Enigma of … Watch video »