Posts tagged: elections

Cambridge Analytica and the Death of the Voter

The anxiety that swirls around Cambridge Analytica reveals a deeper crisis in the private, individualist conception of democracy.
Between the Scylla of "Pasokification" and the Charybdis of "Syrizification"

Pasokification isn’t the only neologism to come out of the Greek experience of the recent years. What followed Pasokification was Syrizification, and this process proved at least equally devastating in terms of its consequences.
Tony Benn: A Political Journey

In an extended 1982 conversation with the New Left Review editorial board, Tony Benn reviews his career in Parliament.
Opportunist Populism: On Italy's Five Star Movement

David Broder offers background on Italy's populist Five Star Movement.
Stung Parliament

After the Italian election, the old is dying and something superficially different but not all that new has been born.
The Gross Coalition

The question of coalitions will be the decisive factor in the character of the next Italian government.
"One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before": On Being Presidential

The liberal world is in mourning for this dispositional quiddity, presidentialness.
Trump 1 Year On: US Politics Reading List

It’s been one year since Donald Trump was inaugurated, and one year since millions of people flooded to the streets for the anti-inauguration protests and the women’s marches to welcome Trump to his first day in office. This US politics reading list will inform and inspire readers to keep resisting.
The Rise of the Leninist Right

The success of the American far right in shifting the mainstream is built on the repressed strategies of one forgotten wing of 1968: a particular reading of Lenin’s theory of revolution.
Macron, the Highest Stage of Post-Politics

Macron's supposed "novelty" quite simply consists of removing the semblance of contestation that still existed in the two-party system.
The Loss of Nicos Poulantzas: The Elusive Answer

In one of his final statements, Nicos Poulantzas discusses the relationship between Marx and Lenin, communist parties and social movements, and the institutions of representative democracy after the Eurocommunist turn.
The Social-Democratic Party-Organization

Gerassimos Moschonas compares the emergence and consolidation of the various European social-democratic parties.