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Posts tagged: socialism
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The release of two recent books on the history of East Germany has reignited debates on the meaning of historical memory in Central Europe. Here, Lizzy Kinch asks what the controversy means about Germany's past and its political future.
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Socialist strategy in the neo-statist moment
In the final installment of our roundtable on The Great Recoil, Paolo Gerbaudo responds to Gabriel Hetland, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, and Anton Jäger and reflects on pandemic-era neoliberalism, neo-statism, and socialist strategy
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Reckoning without the host: Can the Left afford to ditch the liberals?
How should the left position itself strategically vis-a-vis liberalism in this new political moment? Carlo Invernizzi Accetti on socialist strategy in Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil.
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For a Neo-Leninism
There's no question that we're living in a moment of ecological crisis precipitated by capitalism's insatiable drive to expansion, but how should the left organise itself in the fight to prevent ecological collapse? Frédéric Lordon argues that the left must adopt a neo-Leninist position in order to develop and maintain a strategic, macroscopic objective in opposition to capitalism.
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In appreciation of Leo Panitch - Colin Leys and Sam Gindin
How Leo Panitch touched the lives of students, scholars and activists.
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Searching for Socialism - Leo Panitch
An excerpt from Leo Panitch's last book, written with Colin Leys.
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‘Only democracy can allow us to accept the lack of control over our history’
Jean-Luc Nancy and Jean-François Bouthors on the revolutionary potential of the pandemic
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Politics, Theory, Other #90: The Romance of American Communism
Vivian Gornick on her classic book on the lives of members of the American Communist Party, on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
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Communism is an active and diverse collective subjectivity
An interview with Etienne Balibar explores how concept and history drives his thinking of Marx
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“Capitalism is complex – but not difficult to understand”
An interview with the sociologist Vivek Chibber on academic Marxism, anti-discrimination and workers' movement.
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The Only Way We Win: The Progressive International
The Progressive International demands that this crisis should be the starting point of a new socialist internationalism. By Nihal El Aasar