REVUE
Editorial
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Re-founding the European Union
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Reform of the Revolution
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Hegemony, Nonviolence and Transformation
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Gramsci certainly did not disdain the conquest of power via an assault on its palace. But his idea of revolution perhaps became a “revisionist” one as it was understood by the founding fathers, though it conceded nothing to reformism. Transforming the world is better than turning it upside down in order to leave it essentially as it was before. He defined a (peaceful) “battle between hegemonies”, something not unlike what a not always bad disciple of his was to call “progressive democracy”.
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Radical Politics and Ideals
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In the Preface to the Critique of Political Economy Marx regards law, politics, religion, art and philosophy as “ideological forms“ in which social struggles are fought out (MEW 13, 8). Recalling the...
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Labour and Life: Memorandum for a Future Investigation of (Class?) Consciousness
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The paradox of our times is that the more class position determines people’s lives, the less people think of themselves as members of a class (or of a coalition of classes). This is another way of saying that while the social relations of production continue to play a decisive role, the collective entities that take shape, even if only in the embryonic stage, seem not to orient their political initiatives chiefly around these social relations.
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On a Feminist Conception of Work
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I would like to discuss with you the question of labour from the point of view of its feminine specificity which has been, and is, in my opinion, creating new political forms and a new way of thinking...
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Roundtable on the Concept of "Communism" Today
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Three critical intellectuals, Patrice COHEN-SÉAT, Roger MARTELLI and Jean-Louis SAGOT-DUVAUROUX, talk about the word and the concept “communism”. This term is the object of much controversy and...
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Capitalism, Socialism, Property and Transformation: Rethinking Fundamental Questions
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The rise of a new capitalism, the current wave of neoliberal globalisation, tthe success of this project of counter-reforms on the one hand and the emergence of new social movements, the attempts to form new political alliances and to initiate alternatives at all levels of society on the other hand — all this makes necessary a re-invention of socialism twenty years after the break-down of the Soviet bloc.
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On Economic Democracy
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Throughout the world there is consensus around the idea of democracy as the one and only viable concept of a good order. However, that consensual view remains restricted to the realm of politics. A good society today is conceived as a mix of political democracy and … a capitalist market economy. In this view, capitalism is seen as complementary to democracy, but clearly distinct from it. A capitalist economy is not necessarily perceived as a democratic order in itself; it can be undemocratic or democratic, as long as it goes together with a democratic political order that will counterweigh, even outweigh, the despotism of capital and free markets.
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Red and Green: The Ecosocialist Perspective
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The earth’s ecological crisis has reached a decisive turning point with the phenomenon of climate change, a fateful process that is accelerating much more rapidly than predicted. The accumulation of CO2, the rise in temperature, the melting of the polar ice, drought, floods: everything is happening very quickly, and the scientific assessments, while the ink is still drying, are already superseded, and perceived as too optimistic.
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News from Somewhere: Participatory Budgets and Social Transformation
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What is the value of Participatory Budgeting (PB) for a strategy of social transformation? Is it a mystification aimed at keeping people busy apart from what really matters? Or is it, on the contrary, a step forward on the path to overcoming domination? Since the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT) in Brazil launched the first internationally known PB process in Porto Alegre in 1989 a lively debate has been developing around the transformative scope of these experiences.
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Building a "Socialism of the 21st Century"
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It has become fashionable nowadays to associate the student and youth movement of 1968 with the worldwide attempt to build a political culture of a new kind; but very few bear in mind the qualitatively different impact this outburst of subjectivity had on the political developments in the North and in the South and East. While in the North – the US as well as Western Europe – the 1968 movement shaped an overall criticism of the institutionalised societies as such and a radical critique of the upcoming “consumer-societies”, in the South and in Eastern Europe it gave way to a kind of revolutionary impulse against the existing order, whether ruled by party hierarchies or military dictatorships.
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Chronicles
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Reading Beauvoir
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The young woman, who wants to write an essay on Beauvoir tells me, she would not enjoy reading her. “It really gets you down,“ she says. She looks at the table and pushes the microphone back and...
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A New Left-Wing Dynamic?
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An important feature of the municipal and cantonal elections in France was a steep rise in the abstention rate – in sharp contrast to the 2005 referendum and the 2007 presidential election. Fifty-four...
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The Italian Left Before the Elections
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The precipitous fall of the government and consequent early elections (April 13 -14) caught the Italian left’s unification process in midstream. The process, officially launched at the convention of...
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Utopia - The Explosive Potential of the Present
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Frigga Haug combines philosophical conscientiousness and shrewdness with uncompromising farsightedness and passionate visions of the future. (Judith Butler)
It is time to break free of the false...
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Left Without Work
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In April, Left Forum, a Finnish component of the Transform network, published a volume entitled The Left Looking for Work (in Finnish: Vasemmisto etsii työtä, Like Publishing Ltd.), authored by the...
