I’m pleased to announce the schedule for the Department of Political Economy’s semester two 2017 seminar series at the University of Sydney, listed here with other special events presented by the Department.
All are welcome to attend. Please distribute widely. Also note [...]
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Can we still discern the process of uneven and combined development in contemporary capitalism? A common theme on the left since the late 1980s in particular, more or less coincident with the consolidation of neoliberalism, has been the elimination of the non-synchronous or, in terms of this [...]
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In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Latin American politics was defined by the re-emergence of the left. In stark contrast to the immediate post-Cold War period, by 2010 around two-thirds of Latin Americans lived in countries governed by progressive administrations. Backed by [...]
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CAPITAL AND THE REVOLT AGAINST CAPITALISM
The sixth annual Historical Materialism Sydney conference on new Marxist research will be held at The University of Sydney New Law Building on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th December, 2017.
This year the conference will feature a keynote [...]
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In the third of his five pieces on Uneven and Combined Development, Neil Davidson looks at the application of the theory to England, Scotland, Germany and Japan before looking the Soviet transition to state capitalism.
Introduction
The discussions of modernity, modernism and [...]
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I think the left should stop talking about ‘neoliberalism’, as I argue in a recent journal article published in Capital & Class.
I should first acknowledge that others, not properly referenced here, have said similar things more eloquently than I am capable. But I hope I can make [...]
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Utopia and the Critique of Political Economy
In my article, published in the Winter 2017, No. 79 issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE), based on my 2016 E. L. Wheelwright Memorial Lecture, I show that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had a much more positive [...]
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The revolutionary events of late 2010 in Tunisia not only reinvigorated mass emancipatory politics in the Arab world but also inspired social movements all around the globe. For many, particularly on the left, the Arab Uprising – the term often used for these revolutionary waves – was not [...]
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