Posts tagged: political-theory

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  Is Hindu Communalism Fascism?

  From part three of The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism, Achin Vanaik's proposed framework for evaluating contemporary authoritarianism and nationalism. 

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  Political Power and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Societies

  Marx’s original definition concerned political power as the direct manifestation of class antagonism, coupled with its opposite: the abolition of political power properly so-called in a fully realized socialist society. But what happens in between? Is it possible to break entrenched political power without necessarily resorting to the exercise of a fully articulated system of political power?

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  Constructing a Common Language: A conversation with Razmig Keucheyan

  Keucheyan discusses environmental inequality, the past and present of the workers' movement, populism, and the relationship between strategy and theory. 

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  Coming to Terms: The Third World and the Dialectic of Imperialism

  "How are we to conceptualise what we [black peoples] were, what we are, what we are becoming?"

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  Wang Hui on China's Twentieth Century

  Continuing his series of additional chapters to General Intellects, McKenzie Wark writes about the recent work of leading Chinese general intellect, Wang Hui. 

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  Chantal Mouffe: "We urgently need to promote a left-populism"

  In an interview, Chantal Mouffe explains her conception of left-populism.

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  Redefining Feminist Scholarship: Nancy Fraser’s Work Celebrated in a New Volume

  Bringing together scholars from across fields, Chiara Bottici and Banu Bargu have set out to curate a vital collection of reflections on the trajectory of Nancy Fraser’s thought across a career spanning nearly four decades.

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  All That Melts into Air is Solid: A. Sivanandan

  In this two-part essay, A. Sivanandan critiques the New Times current developed within Marxism Today, and its influence on the rhetoric of Labour in the 1990s.

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  Crowdfunding Politics as a Strategic Art: Selected Writings of Daniel Bensaïd

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  Translation and Conflict: The Violence of the Universal — a conversation with Étienne Balibar

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  Save Those Who Weep

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  Resisting Left Melancholia