Although it is always difficult, if not impossible, to clearly discern the emergence of a new epoch when you find yourself right in the middle of the process, there are strong indications that we are experiencing a watershed moment in the development of capitalism. Conjunctural crises such [...]
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In preparing for an engagement with Brecht De Smet’s new book Gramsci on Tahrir: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Egypt, I thought it would be a good idea to dust-down a few earlier blog posts of mine in order to provide a ground-clearing exercise on thinking about Antonio Gramsci’s [...]
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Some paths to an event seem particularly labyrinthine, which only adds to the joy once a project reaches an unexpected destination.
When Adam David Morton arrived to take up his Professorship at Sydney in 2014, it coincided with a merging and re-foundation of a number of local Capital [...]
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Peter Thomas (Brunel University), ‘Revolutions, Passive and Permanent’
This was the sixth and final seminar in the series for Semester 1, organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Peter Thomas, author of the prize-winning The Gramscian Moment, [...]
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Peter Thomas (Brunel University), ‘Revolutions, Passive and Permanent’
This is the sixth and final seminar in the series for Semester 1, organised by the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney.
Peter Thomas, author of the prize-winning The Gramscian Moment, will [...]
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Call for Papers — On 'Heroic Fury' and Questions of Method in Antonio Gramsci
One-day graduate workshop, University of Sydney, 29 May 2015
With an update on the poster and the room location, on Friday 29 May, the Department of Political Economy at the University of [...]
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Call for Papers — On 'Heroic Fury' and Questions of Method in Antonio Gramsci
One-day graduate workshop, University of Sydney, 29 May 2015
On Friday 29 May, the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney is hosting a one-day graduate workshop [...]
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As reblogged from the Journal of Australian Political Economy blogspot, I noted that some time ago Tony Cliff developed a theorisation of deflected permanent revolution to consider how state power, notably in post-colonial conditions of uneven and combined development, becomes the driver for [...]
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