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Vern Grey: Questions provoked by Bill Martin’s Ethical Marxism
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Don Hamerquist: Barack, Badiou, and Bilal al Hasan
In what ways do (or should) new configurations of capital and imperialism, seen globally, affect our analysis of policies of the US state and its tactical moves? In the following essay Don Hamerquist argues that, due to neglect of new structures of capital, the common left analyses of US imperialism and explanation of its policies [...]
Rosa L. Blanc: Bhattarai’s “new type of state” and the Maoist re-envisioning of communism
How should future socialist revolutions avoid capitalist restoration? How can communists do better, building on the experience of socialism in the 20th century, to deepen the involvement of the people in decisionmaking? Baburam Bhattarai is a celebrated intellectual figure in Nepal and a top leader within the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) [UCPN(M)]. After [...]
John Steele: Our relation to revolutionary tradition
The following points are stated fairly tersely. I certainly hope to both develop and argue for them (along with some related themes), but I think there’s value to stating and inviting comment, as part of a process. Our relation to revolutionary tradition: some initial theses by John Steele We are communists: not socialists but communists. [...]
John Steele: Is Badiou a Maoist?
This is the paper I presented at the Rethinking Marxism conference last weekend (a little more filled out here). I hope we can get some response and some dialogue going here on the issues raised in the paper. To anticipate my conclusion: Is Badiou’s work Maoist? – the answer, I believe, is certainly, yes. Badiou [...]
John Steele: Badiou — Another Take on Revolutionary Theory
By John Steele What about Alain Badiou, the contemporary philosopher? Like Zizek, he has attracted much attention among people looking for new avenues both intellectually and politically. A friend in Latin American studies has told me his name is everywhere in Latin American intellectual circles. Badiou’s background is within Marxism and Maoism. He was a [...]
John Steele: When Everything Seems to Change — Badiou and the Event
Both structure and conjuncture deeply impact politics — and the tension between them runs through revolutionary theory and debates. How much is it the very structure of class society that gives rise to a revolutionary people, and how much is it exceptional moments and crisis within particular societies? Why did a great eruption of consciousness [...]
John Steele: Revolutionary Faithfulness and the Radically New
“In many ways this is the crux of Badiou’s thinking and work, over the past 25 years: how to ‘keep the faith’ in a creative way; how to do justice, theoretically, to a greatly changed world while remaining true to the project of a politics of emancipation.” by John Steele Over the past week and [...]
Chris Day: The Historical Failure of Anarchism
The Historical Failure of Anarchism: Implications for the Future of the Revolutionary Project pdf version by Christopher Day (1996, Love and Rage Archive) In the Spring 1996 issue of Workers Solidarity (journal of Ireland’s Workers Solidarity Movement) there is a review by Conor McLoughlin of Ken Loach’s excellent film on the Spanish Revolution, Land and [...]
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