Category: Marxism

17 May

Comments Off on ‘Capital’ Against Capitalism: Final timetable announced and registration open

‘Capital’ Against Capitalism: Final timetable announced and registration open

by

> 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.

Filed under: Marxism

14 May

Comments Off on What’s class got to do with it? The debate over $150k families & ‘middle-class welfare’

What’s class got to do with it? The debate over $150k families & ‘middle-class welfare’

by

> 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 […]

Filed under: class, Marxism

19 Mar

Comments Off on ‘Capital’ Against Capitalism: Provisional Timetable

‘Capital’ Against Capitalism: Provisional Timetable

by

>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 […]

Filed under: Marxism

28 Jan

Comments Off on Call for papers: ‘Capital’ against Capitalism conference

Call for papers: ‘Capital’ against Capitalism conference

by

– 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 […]

Filed under: Marxism

16 Jan

Comments Off on The curious marriage of neoliberalism and nationalism

The curious marriage of neoliberalism and nationalism

by

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

5 Comments

What is politics?

by

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

A ‘Philosophy of Praxis’ for our times

by

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

Red baiting back in fashion

by

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.