Thanks to @liz_beths for her helpful comments and suggestions. The economist John Quiggin — whose valuable book Zombie Economics I reviewed last October — has just completed a three part series on “Marxism without revolution” at his blog. The three posts cover Marx’s ideas on class, crisis and capital. In responding it is difficult to know where to start because the case he mounts […]
17 May
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> The final timetable for the conference I am organising – ‘Capital’ Against Capitalism – has been announced. The conference website has full details and a secure registration process through PayPal. All welcome – visit capitalagainstcapitalism.blogspot.com to register.
14 May
Comments Off on What’s class got to do with it? The debate over $150k families & ‘middle-class welfare’
> Australia’s richest CEOs — not exactly breaking into a sweat right now You may have thought there’d been a debate on class carried out in the mainstream media and more widely since Budget night last Tuesday, but you’d be wrong. Instead we’ve seen a partisan debate where both sides agree on the principles of […]
19 Mar
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>SATURDAY JUNE 25 – CENTRAL SYDNEY9.00 – 9.15 Welcome 9.15 – 10.45 Plenary 1 – AUSTRALIAN LABORISMSpeaker: Rick KuhnRespondents: Geoffrey Robinson and Tad Tietze 10.45 – 11.00 Short morning tea 11 – 12.30 Workshop 1A – MARXISM AND THEOLOGY Roland Boer: ‘The Religion of Everyday Life’: Capital as FetishTamara Prosic: Orthodox Christian Theology and Social ChangeRemy […]
28 Jan
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– CALL FOR PAPERS – CALL FOR PAPERS – CALL FOR PAPERS – Capital Against Capitalism a conference of new Marxist research Saturday 25 June 2011 Central Sydney It seems significant, and hardly coincidental, that the impasse that politics fell into after the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the eclipse of Marx and the research […]
16 Jan
Comments Off on The curious marriage of neoliberalism and nationalism
One of the main arguments of the neoliberal era has been centred on the decline of nation states and governments as actors in the economic sphere, replaced by decentralised market networks, multinational corporations and a new class of transnational capitalists. In her article in the Atlantic Monthly that I quoted in my last post, “The Rise of […]
06 Nov
So what is politics? For most, politics is that thing that happens in Canberra and on Macquarie Street. That thing to be ridiculed, not trusted, obsessed over and argued about. It is that thing external from us, happening ‘out there’ in other locations, and reported in the media. Yet politics is also a practice, or potential […]
18 Sep
Comments Off on A ‘Philosophy of Praxis’ for our times
As I blog this, liz_beths is writing the conclusion to her Masters thesis, which analyses the rise and fall of the Global Justice Movement in Australia. She wrote a bit about the arc from S11 2000 to 9/11 and the present day on the Overland blog last weekend. Rather than simply re-use hackneyed categories that […]
29 Jul
Comments Off on Red baiting back in fashion
The NSW Senate race has produced a sideline of media commentary attacking Lee Rhiannon, the lead Greens candidate and until recently a NSW Upper House MP. Most of it has been along the lines of the socialist menace lurking beneath the apparently acceptable green exterior of the party.
04 Jul
Comments Off on John Quiggin, ‘Marxism without revolution’ and Left strategy: A response. (Part 1)