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Monthly Archives: July 2012
The revolution: a cherished failure.
One of the basic positions held by the radical left is the need to radically transform the society we live in, more precisely from a capitalist society into a socialist society. The generally accepted proposition is that this transition should … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Proletarian politics
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Thoughts on culture in an age of superabundance
One of the biggest triumphs of capitalism lies in having created the impression that it’s a natural system. A non-specialist, when considering other times and societies, will almost certainly interpret them through the prism of capitalist assumptions: transferable property, free … Continue reading
Posted in Cultural analysis, Culture, History
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The limits of populism: are we the 99%?
First off, I’d like to point out much of the reaction from the left–or perhaps I should say the sects–to the Occupy phenomenon seems to be misguided and full of sour grapes. Whether one has misgivings about the theoretical grounds … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
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The proletarian class party, part 2
This is the second part of a series of posts on the nature of the proletarian class party, of which the first part can be found here. There was something of a big time gap between this post and the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Proletarian politics
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Retracing our steps: from the strait passage to genuine party democracy
From the Third Internationale onwards, a cardinal dichotomy in socialist circles has been that of opportunism and ultraleftism. The “line”, so Leninists–against whom, let this be clear, I have no animus–say, is like a complex navigation problem. Many are the … Continue reading
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The crisis in Spain: a public-private partnership
There’s a conventional wisdom on the right that the basic problem of the European economies now in trouble lies with excessive public spending. Sometimes this gets a bit more nuanced–but only a bit–and there comes the talk about competitiveness, labour … Continue reading
