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Socialism as a Regulative Idea?
in NLR 94, July-August 2015, pp. 105-126
Subjects: Philosophy , Political Theory and Strategy
In The Structure of World History, Kōjin Karatani attempts a radical reconstruction of historical materialism, from early nomadism to post-capitalist society. Mauss, Hobbes and Marx mobilized as companion thinkers of exchange; Kant as ethico-political prophet. Rob Lucas queries the speculative history of one of Japan’s leading public intellectuals.
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Spain On Edge
in NLR 93, May-June 2015, pp. 23-42
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Spain
Responding to NLR’s questions, Pablo Iglesias discusses the regime’s counter-attack, the example of Syriza and the political geography of austerity in Spain. After May 2015’s regional elections, can Podemos forge a coalition strategy to navigate between marginalization and the lethal consequences of a PSOE embrace?
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Understanding Podemos
in NLR 93, May-June 2015, pp. 7-22
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Spain
The general secretary of Spain’s new anti-austerity party sets out the strategic thinking behind its bid to become a national force. Incipient crisis of the post-Franco regime, mired in corruption and economic collapse, and opportunities for a popular-political formation, mobilizing the social discontent of the indignados.
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Culture After Google
in NLR 92, March-April 2015, pp. 145-154
Subjects: Aesthetics , Political Theory and Strategy
Emilie Bickerton on Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform. Diagnosis of a cultural production laid low by digital consolidation, and political proposals for a push-back.
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The Politics of Exit
in NLR 88, July-August 2014, pp. 121-129
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
Wolfgang Streeck on Peter Mair, Ruling the Void. Diagnosis of Western democracy’s hollowing in the final work of a political-science master.
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Behind Marx’s Hidden Abode
in NLR 86, March-April 2014, pp. 55-72
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
Behind exchange there lurks production, but what is more hidden still? The disavowed conditions of capital’s possibility—in reproduction, politics and nature—as sites for expanded anti-capitalist struggle.
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Grandeur and Misery of the Social State
in NLR 82, July-August 2013, pp. 99-113
Subjects: History and Historiography , Political Theory and Strategy , Welfare State
Kafka’s day job, defending injured factory workers, as starting point for an illuminating study of the West’s social-protection mechanisms. Mixed legacies and uncertain future of a system built to mitigate the tensions of industrialization.
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Populism and the New Oligarchy
in NLR 82, July-August 2013, pp. 5-28
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
Tracking the terms ‘populism’ and ‘the people’ from the 19th century, Marco D’Eramo offers a striking new interpretation of their current applications—the first levelled indiscriminately at any political force that steps outside the bounds of convention, the second banished from the scene.
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Charting Radical Theory
in NLR 79, January-February 2013, pp. 153-159
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Social Theory
Gregor McLennan on Göran Therborn, From Marxism to Post-Marxism?. A balance-sheet of the legacies of radical social theory, and its prospects in the new century.
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Political Cultures of South Korea
in NLR 79, January-February 2013, pp. 85-101
Subjects: Political Theory and Strategy , Korea
The presidential victory of Park Geun-Hye, the dictator’s daughter, as bid for a refurbished conservative hegemony in the ROK. Origins of the elite in colonial collaboration and anti-Communist modernization, and its attempts to re-hegemonize the country’s historical trajectory.
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