The United States of America currently lies stricken in multi-faceted economic, political and social crisis. More than 100,000 Americans have been killed by COVID-19 in a once-in-a-century pandemic. Unemployment has sky-rocketed, with over twenty million people now out of work. Widespread [...]
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A dread smoldering in the hearts of many who identify with the Left burst into flames when Donald Trump captured the White House in November 2016. Brexit was scary; this was downright terrifying. There were those who cautioned against panic; they tried to assure us not to make too much of [...]
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At a postgraduate seminar at the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney (6 February 2017), we discussed the outlines of a “General Theory of Trump”. Students and staff submitted 10 Talking Points Towards a General Theory of Trump as a result and [...]
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On Monday 6 February 2017, the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney convened a postgraduate workshop with Paul Mason – British journalist, broadcaster, and author of Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. The workshop was titled ‘Towards A General Theory of Trump’, and [...]
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This guy [Trump] probably knows where Stoke-on-Trent is, where UKIP is trying to beat Labour in a highly contested byelection. I would not be surprised if in his office, they are discussing what is happening, in this tiny beleaguered town that Adam comes from, right now
— Paul Mason, [...]
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A recent think piece by Spiked!’s theoretical guru, Frank Furedi, is an attack on the idea that anti-politics is any kind of solution to the current breakdown in authority of the political system. It’s worth examining Furedi’s case because it aligns with anti-anti-politics arguments [...]
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On November 9th 2016, despite the stunning news of Donald Trump’s electoral victory, the world’s financial markets did not crash. If anything, they rallied, thereby showing once and for all that markets do not care about ideology. So long as the Treasury goes to an alumnus of Goldman Sachs, [...]
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Following Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, a growing number of commentators have argued that we are seeing a resurgence in voting behaviour based on class interests. After thirty years of neoliberalism, working class people are finally responding to the attack on their economic [...]
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