Мэтью Коннелли - Новые империалисты

Многих исследователей империи волнует вопрос: почему после нескольких десятилетий исследовательской и преподавательской работы критика империализма и его наследия не оказала никакого влияния? Впервые за столетие планы создания своеобразной американской империи удостоились серьезного и почтительного внимания. И вместо того, чтобы решительно выступить против этих планов, ученые говорят либо не о том, о чем надо, либо не так, как надо. Привыкнув называть американскую внешнюю политику империалистической, ставя под сомнение ее легитимность, левые комментаторы не знают, как можно ответить на этот новый атавизм. Что касается профессиональных историков империи, то, несмотря на их презрительное отношение к убожеству работ и интеллектуальной нечестности новых империалистов, они избегали дебатов об уроках империи из страха предоставить более «подходящее прошлое» новому поколению империалистов.

http://www.intelros.ru/readroom/prognosis/021206/1016-novye_imperialisty.html

Eoghan Gilmartin, Tommy Greene - A Podemos Budget?

Podemos’s backing for Spain’s Socialist cabinet risks making it a prop to the institutions it once rebelled against. Yet it has also imposed its own stamp on the government’s agenda.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/unidos-podemos-pablo-iglesias-psoe

Peter D. Thomas - Gramsci and hegemony

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Exe5U3kFU5g

Gaby Del Valle - When Environmentalism Meets Xenophobia

The conservative conservation movement’s dark history of racism and eugenics.

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment-climate-eugenics-immigration/

Vijay Prashad- With Samir Amin by our side

Brazil’s election result is appalling. Jair Bolsonaro, who will take office early next year, will be the most extremist head of government on the planet. If he cuts down the Amazon Rain Forest as he promises it will be catastrophic for life.

https://mailchi.mp/thetricontinental.org/with-samir-amin-by-our-side-the-thirty-sixth-newsletter-2018

Zoé Samudzi - Africa’s Place in the Radical Imagination

Our leftist politics are as much an act of generating new futurities as they are destroying and remaking new structures and/or repurposing existing ones. But often, in the process of dreaming that constitutes our radicalisms, we retreat into ahistorical and erasing revisionisms as opposed to situating our political visions within some concrete foundation. Within radical politics, Africa often exists far more comfortably as an abstracted symbol, a site of the ultimate myth-making within political imaginaries a phenomenon to which those in the African diaspora are not immune than it does as a geographically bounded plexus of messy and sometimes contradictory material realities.

https://roarmag.org/magazine/africas-place-radical-imagination/

David Kotz - End of the neoliberal era? Crisis and Restructuring in American Capitalism

During the severe economic crisis of 2008–09, it seemed to many that neoliberalism was finished. The major us banks were facing collapse and survived only through state bailouts. Economic activity plummeted, along with employ¬ment. According to conventional wisdom, none of this was supposed to be happening: free-market capitalism would be eternally stable, bringing an end to the era of state intervention in the economy. Everyone would swim or sink on the basis of their own efforts and abilities. These claims were belied by what then unfolded in clear view of the whole world. When the crisis that couldn’t happen broke out, the us Treasury and Federal Reserve swiftly jettisoned their free-market dogma and used all the mechanisms at their disposal to halt the collapse.

Richard Sennett - Citizen sociologist

For nearly 50 years, Richard Sennett has been one of our most respected thinkers about cities, labor, and culture. Author of such classics of sociology as “The Fall of Public Man” and “The Hidden Injuries of Class,” Sennett has more recently meditated on what it means to really make something in our automated, consumerist world.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vQuc6AL05HI

Jenny Pearce - What’s left in Latin America?

Once swept by a 'pink tide', the continent is now seeing the rise of authoritarian politics. What lessons are to be learnt from the varied left experiences?

https://www.redpepper.org.uk/whats-left-in-latin-america/

Fernando Haddad Reflects

In the aftermath of his defeat to far-right Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential elections, Fernando Haddad looks back to the days of the 1980s Workers Party.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/fernando-haddad-workers-party-brazil-marxism

Robert J. S. Ross - Slaves to Fashion. Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops

Robert J. S. Ross's Slaves to Fashion exposes the dark side of the apparel industry and its exploited workers at home and abroad. It's both a lesson in American business history and a warning about one of the most important issues facing the global capital economy-the reappearance of the sweatshop. Vividly detailing the decline and tragic rebirth of sweatshop conditions in the American apparel industry of the twentieth century, Ross explains the new sweatshops as a product of unregulated global capitalism and associated deregulation, union erosion, and exploitation of undocumented workers. Using historical material and economic and social data, the author shows that after a brief thirty-five years of fair practices, the U.S. apparel business has once again sunk to shameful abuse and exploitation.

Марк Блит - Заблуждения по поводу мер жесткой экономии

Результаты европейского эксперимента с затягиванием поясов - налицо, и они предельно ясны и понятны: режим самоограничения не работает. Но почему столь ошибочная идея стала стандартным ответом Запада на финансовый кризис?

http://www.warandpeace.ru/ru/analysis/vprint/79678/

Mark Blyth on Austerity

A Watson Institute video on the global trend toward Austerity budgets featuring Mark Blyth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE

The Dark Side of the Silicon Gold Rush

Acclaimed urban geographer Richard Walker puts the Bay Area’s tech boom into historical and social context in his new book.

Pictures of a Gone City is the culmination of the life’s work of Richard A. Walker, a professor emeritus of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. A student of the great Marxist geographer David Harvey, Walker brings a profoundly historical approach to his scholarship. His lens spans economics, urban design, politics, and the environment, to name just a few of his interests. Walker’s new book is urban geography for our times. It illuminates the basic crisis and contradiction of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is an example of capitalism at its most innovative and dynamic, and simultaneously the site of severe inequality and failing public policies and infrastructure.

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/07/the-dark-side-of-the-silicon-gold-rush/564140/

Этьен Балибар - Что такое государственная власть?

Развитие государственной власти буржуазии, усиление её материальных средств вмешательства и возрастающее использование такого вмешательства совершенно не есть следствие простых технических и экономических требований, не есть неизбежное развитие политической власти в целом, но прямая функция исторического становления пролетариата как класса. Государство империалистической эпохи не есть продукт классового антагонизма, встроенный в капиталистические производственные отношения с самого начала: это государство эпохи революций и контрреволюций; оно организовано как государство превентивной контрреволюции.

http://www.redflora.org/2013/01/blog-post_11.html?m=1

Georg Lukács - Existentialism

There is no reasonable doubt that existentialism will soon become the predominant philosophical current among bourgeois intellectuals. This state of affairs has been long in the making. Ever since the publication of Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit the avant-garde intellectuals have seen in existentialism the philosophy of our times.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1949/existentialism.htm

Harry Harootunian - Out of Japan: The New Associationist Movement

The New Associationist Movement (hereafter NAM) is the work of Karatani Kojin, Japan's most gifted critic, and a number of associates including the economist Nishibe Makoto, the lawyer Kuchiki Sui, the critic and economist Asada Akira and others, even though there is no formal organization as such, and no leader since its members are all equal representatives. Although the Principles has been produced by a collective, its leading ideas clearly derive from Karatani's earlier book, with Yamashiro Mutsumi and Nishibe Makoto, Possible Communism, published in 1999.

https://web.archive.org/web/20070416092300/http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/default.asp?channel_id=2187&editorial_id=9899

“A Time Bomb that Everyone Chose to Ignore is Starting to Go Off”: An Interview with Vladimir Safatle

In his successful presidential campaign, Brazilian far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro has mobilised voters from across the political spectrum. So how can we understand the growing support for authoritarianism in Brazil? Interviewed here, philosopher Vladimir Safatle reads the success of Bolsonaro's “anti-campaign” as the opening shot in an ascendant post-liberal fascist politics that has shifted the locus of action from the streets to the virtual realm.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4116-a-time-bomb-that-everyone-chose-to-ignore-is-starting-to-go-off-an-interview-with-vladimir-safatle