The Bureaucratic-Military State vs. Radical Democracy and the Socialist Commons
So diminished have become the political horizons of much of the left in the neoliberal era that many have become captives of what Engels once called “a superstitious reverence for the state and [...]
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Something had changed. For years, Wollongong had been a place without hope, without purpose. Empty warehouses, boarded up factories, vacant blocks of land where once had stood thriving plants – these dotted the town’s landscape, a landscape still dominated by the steelworks, the vast [...]
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Most commentators on Turkey mark 2013 as a turning point in terms of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) transition from a liberal, democratic, and ‘yet’ pro-Islamic government to a more heavy-handed and authoritarian one. Even in 2010–12, the AKP was praised by some in the [...]
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Join us at Gleebooks for the launch of three ground-breaking books on the contemporary assetisation of the economy on Monday 15 April 2019 at 6:30pm.
1) Michel Feher’s Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
The hegemony of finance compels a new [...]
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Preliminaries on Colonialism and War
Marx’s theory of the modern state developed in its earliest stages by way of critical engagement with Hegel’s political philosophy. Of course, the young Marx already understood that the modern state expresses the dominance of a new form of [...]
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In late 2018, about the same time Raewyn Connell and her publishers in London and Melbourne (Zed Books and Monash University Publishing) were putting the finishing touches to her The Good University: What Universities Actually Do and Why It’s time for Radical Change, a small group of [...]
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The crisis that hit members of the Eurozone a decade ago has often been attributed to design flaws in Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Drawing on a new study co-authored with Jamie Jordan we argue that this focus neglects the deeper issues that lie at the heart of European economies. [...]
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In August Laurie Carmichael, former AMWU and ACTU leader, former president of the Communist Party of Australia and one of the architects of the accord, died. In October commemorations of Laurie’s life were held in Melbourne and Sydney. I attended the Sydney event. It was very moving and [...]
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