Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism and Revolution (2): Causes, Consequences, Constraints
In this second part to his series of five pieces for revolutionary reflections Neil Davidson explores the aesthetic and political dimensions of the theory of Uneven and Combined [...]
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Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (1): The Classic Forms of Uneven and Combined Development
Trotsky’s theory of Uneven and Combined Development was born out of his experience of the Russian Revolution. To mark the centenary of the revolution, we [...]
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One of the bits and pieces revealed by my moving to the University of Sydney and the Department of Political Economy has been a set of old undergraduate lecture notes, course reading lists, and revision commentaries that were previously filed away and forgotten [...]
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It was through the method of rational abstractions that Marx sought to delineate the formal structures of the capitalist mode of production, which informs his major aim in Capital. Except the section on primitive accumulation, his analytical object was ‘a pure [...]
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Organised by Elizabeth Humphrys, Ihab Shalbak, Philip Roberts and Richard Parkin, the graduate workshop, ‘On “Heroic Fury” and Questions of Method in Antonio Gramsci’ (University of Sydney, 29 May 2015), brought together scholars from the University of Sydney, the [...]
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This is the third of three linked blog posts outlining the argument of We Make Our Own History: Marxism and Social Movements in the Twilight of Neoliberalism. The previous posts discussed Marxism and social movements and Neoliberalism as a social movement from above. We Make Our Own History [...]
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Excitement about India’s role as a rising power was again highlighted by Barack Obama’s state visit to New Delhi in January. From an Australian angle, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was lauded as a high-profile guest during the Brisbane G20 summit in November.
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Despite the huge and belated praise now surrounding John Williams’ novel Stoner (1965), much less attention has been cast to his earlier novel, Butcher’s Crossing (1960). Still, it’s been rightly hailed as part of a pantheon of western masterpieces alongside Cormac McCarthy’s Blood [...]
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