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
Anton Jäger reflects on Paolo Gerbaudo's The Great Recoil, neoliberalism, and the evolving role of the state in the Covid-era
The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing the state to remake itself through, among other things, monetary police and public services. In this important interview, Etienne Balibar reflects on democracy, revolution, and neoliberal capitalism in the Coronavirus era.
Leo Panitch on Ralph Miliband's theory of the state, his debates with Nicos Poulantzas, and the relevance of his work to the Corbyn project, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
How we understand the capitalist state effects how we think about power and what a socialist transition would mean. In this article, Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian argue that the left in the US needs to move beyond both the Leninist and the social democratic conceptions of the state in order to develop a democratic socialist politics for the 21st century.
What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? The left has typically seen the state either as an instrument of class rule that needs to be "smashed" or, as with social democracy, as a neutral medium which can be wielded by functionaries with the correct ideas. In this, a series of seven theses on the nature and function of the capitalist state, Michael A. McCarthy argues that both are wrong and that we need a reinvigoration of the late work of Nicos Poulantzas for a full, democratic understanding of the state.