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This paper argues that capitalist accumulation requires imperialist expansion, and that this expansion creates a “raced” surplus laboring population. The argument proceeds in seven parts: that Marx’s assertion in chapter 25 of Capital... more
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      Sex and GenderMarxismRace and RacismCritical Race Theory
This article explores the importance of non-capitalist space within the global political economy. The issue of how to categorise and understand space in so-called peripheral regions such as Latin America has been a contentious one. Whilst... more
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      MarxismPropertyResistance (Social)Capitalism
Abstract:  This paper presents an argument for considering issues of class in analyses of communicative planning projects. In these projects, class interests tend to be obscured by the contemporary preoccupation with the class-ambiguous... more
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      GeographyHuman GeographyUrban GeographyEconomic Geography
This article puts labour, and its historically changing forms of existence, at the centre of the theorisation of uneven international development. It advocates a consciously dialectical approach that goes beyond significant limitations in... more
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      Political Geography and GeopoliticsMarxismCritical GeopoliticsGeopolitics
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      Political SociologySocial TheoryPolitical EconomySocial Policy
Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault are widely accepted to be central figures of post-war French philosophy. Philosophers, cultural theorists, and others have devoted considerable effort to the critical examination of the work of each of... more
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      Critical TheoryDiscourse AnalysisHistoryCultural History
This paper explores the way in which feminism, whilst trying to achieve gender equality, has increased inequality between women. It locates the cause of this in feminism's early adoption of Marxist and Engelsian thought and the way in... more
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      Political SociologyGender StudiesMen's StudiesFeminist Theory
This paper aims to concretize this notion of literary theories being in dialogue by exploring the intertwining of the Marxist theory, mainly depending on Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin’s theories, and Freudian psychoanalytic theory, based... more
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      Critical TheoryPsychoanalysisMarxismDrama
Law here, law there, law everywhere. The first nine months of the Trump administration have thrust questions about the force of law, legal strategy and tactics, and the role of judges in the United States' much-vaunted system of... more
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      Critical TheoryConstitutional LawMarxismInternational Law
Queste pagine sono state scritte da Marx in periodi differenti della sua vita. Messe insieme segnano e abbracciano tutto l'arco di sviluppo del suo pensiero. Le date sono di per sé eloquenti (1844, 1858, 1867, 1881-1882) e subito ci... more
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      MarxismMarxist EconomicsPhilosophy of Karl MarxMarxist theory
2 K. Korsch, La concezione materialistica della storia in Id., Marxismo e filosofia, s. n., PGreco, Milano 2012, p. 87: «Esso [il pensiero di Marx] non si lascia collocare in nessuno dei comparti tradizionali del sistema delle scienze... more
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      Political PhilosophyMarxist theoryDialectical MaterialismG.W.F. Hegel
What does the development of a truly robust contemporary theory of domination require? Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering all of the dimensions of race, gender, sexuality, and ability within the structures of... more
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      Critical TheoryFeminist TheoryMarxismQueer Theory
First this paper will discuss Michel Foucault foundation of his ideas, and why more than a critical intervention from scholars of color is needed. Moreover, we should be aware that not only were Foucault’s deficient of political ideas or... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesPolitical EconomyPolitical PhilosophyEducation
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      Urban GeographyMarxismUrban PlanningClass
Enclosed is the syllabus and course notes from the upper division course I teach in PostModernism and Post-Marxist Critical Theory. It occurs to me that some of these essays--ranging from Horkheimer and Adorno, Baudrillard, Foucault, and... more
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      Critical TheoryFeminist TheoryMarxismPostcolonial Studies
“Power is war, the continuation of war by other means”: Foucault’s reversal of Clausewitz’s formula has become a staple of critical theory — but it remains highly problematic on a conceptual level. Elaborated during Foucault’s 1976... more
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      Critical TheoryDiscourse AnalysisSociologyCultural Studies
Invited guest paper to international conference in Delhi, ‘Imperialism: Old and New’, sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research, 9-10 February 2015. Marx’s Capital is a prime source of wisdom about capitalism’s... more
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      GlobalizationMarxismValue TheoryMarxist theory
We live in an age of movement. More than at any other time in history , people and things move longer distances, more frequently, and faster than ever before. All that was solid melted into air long ago and is now in full circulation... more
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      Critical TheoryReligionHistorySocial Movements
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      Critical TheoryDeconstructionMarxist theoryStructuralism/Post-Structuralism
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      MarxismMarxist theoryRussian RevolutionKarl Marx
Production, distribution, and consumption of digital use values occur today in a sociotechnological setting quite different from that characterizing the industrial economic system. Thanks to increasing access to hardware, software, and... more
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      Digital HumanitiesMarxismHistory of Economic ThoughtDigital Media
KARL MARX - KOMÜNİST MANİFESTO
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      MarxismMarxist EconomicsCommunismMarxist theory
Adı üstünde, 100 adet efsane. Vazgeçersek hem bizim hem de başkalarının daha iyi cinsel (ve gündelik) hayatları olabilir.
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      PsychoanalysisMarxismSexualityGender and Sexuality
Öz Kürt kadınlarının, modernleşmenin/demokratikleşmenin bir tezahürü olarak gösterilmesi hem aile, hem din/dindarlık hem de çocuk yetiştirilme tarzına uygun bir sosyolojik yapıyı barındırmaz. Çünkü Kürtlerin kadim tarihinden beri... more
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      SociologyPolitical SociologyYouth StudiesKurdish Studies
In this chapter I focus on a few selected building blocks that will pave the way for a renewed, thorough, and sober phenomenological reading of Marx’s philosophy. I intend to show here that this can be done best through 1) moving Marx... more
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      MarxismPhenomenologyHegelEdmund Husserl
The objectivity of studying social and political sciences has always been questioned on the ground that personal values may interfere. In the same vein, it is a challenge to understand and explain international relations, owing to... more
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      International RegimesLiberalismInternational Political EconomyMarxist theory
The Year 1968 in Czechoslovakia – exceptional case from political, social and religious point of view in European context This study presents specific moments of the historical development of the year 1968 in Czechoslovakia. Not only... more
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryEastern European StudiesHistory of Religion
This article explores the patterns of class inequality and capital accumulation in Brazil, showing the drivers and limits of the decline in inequality that occurred during the Workers' Party governments. It proposes that minimum wage... more
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      Latin American StudiesDevelopment EconomicsPolitical EconomyDevelopment Studies
Gli studi gramsciani e la diffusione internazionale di Gramsci si sono recentemente evoluti in due direzioni prevalenti. Da un lato, l'interpretazione storiografica e filologica, densa di dispute sul significato di singoli passaggi dei... more
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      MarxismMarxist theoryGramsciAntonio Gramsci
Nel paese ove sarebbe in costruzione l'economia socialista non solo dunque esistono i rubli, coi quali il salario dei lavoratori viene pagato, ma esiste anche il risparmio sul salario, il deposito di esso nelle casse statali o nelle... more
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      Russian StudiesSoviet RegimeSoviet HistorySocialisms
A Marxist read of the (fairly) newly discovered "Life and Adventures of a Haunted Convict", the earliest extant African-American prison narrative. Focuses on the early part of the book and Austin Reed's transition from home to... more
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      American LiteratureAfrican American LiteratureMarxist theory19th-Century American Literature
I will start with a recapitulation of the approach I took to writing the text in the book, reconstructed in rough terms, and then go into a few methodological reflections that have been working with or through since then. The text was... more
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      Critical TheoryCultural StudiesGender StudiesAesthetics
O presente artigo é um balanço bibliográfico em torno do Imperialismo e sua relação com as modificações globais provocadas pela crise do capitalismo na Inglaterra a partir de 1870, estudada, principalmente, por Vladimir Ilitch Lenin, além... more
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      Political EconomyMarxist EconomicsContemporary HistoryInternational Political Economy
In a world where exploitation and uneven development condemn billions to suffering, the proper understanding of the intellectual relationship between Hegel and Marx appears a small matter indeed. Marx’s Capital, however, remains the... more
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      HegelMarxist theory
This chapter discusses critical approaches in the examination of representation in language coursebooks in an effort to debunk two educational myths in relation to language teaching materials: the notions that they are neutral and... more
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      Teaching English as a Second LanguageLanguages and LinguisticsCritical PedagogyCritical applied linguistics
Marx critica sia l'anarchismo di Bakunin e Proudhon sia le lotte anarchiche-insurrezionali dei lavoratori seguaci di Ludd. Tale critica, nella sua essenza, può essere applicata anche alle attuali forme di neo-luddismo.
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      MarxismMarxist EconomicsMarxist theoryMikhail Bakunin
1. L'ideologia dentro la critica dell'ideologia 2. La questione della prospettiva e il problema del tempo 3. Lo specchio e la lampada. La Widerspiegelungstheorie 4. Una mimesis dialettica, oltre soggettivismo e rispecchiamento meccanico... more
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      MarxismLiteratureIdeologyMarxist theory
Ernst Bloch-ist das nicht der linke Philosoph mit der Pfeife und dem »Prinzip Hoffnung«? Das dürfte-jenseits der kleinen, aber eingeschworenen Bloch-Forscher und-Anhänger, die sich weitgehend abseits von der bürgerlichen Öffentlichkeit... more
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      Critical TheoryIntellectual HistoryMarxismGerman History
Die Dummköpfe glauben, Wladimir Uljanow habe, nachdem er die Bedeutung der bäuerlichen Massen entdeckt und sie zuerst gegen den Zaren und dann gegen die Bourgeoisie aufgestachelt hätte, die alten Gleise verlassen und dem europäischen... more
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      Economic HistoryEconomicsPolitical EconomyMarxism
»Die ›Idee‹ blamierte sich immer, soweit sie von dem ›Interesse‹ unter-schieden war« (MEW 2, 85). Mit diesen Worten beginnen in den vierziger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts die jungen Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels ihren Feldzug gegen jene... more
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      Critical TheoryHistorySocial TheoryPhilosophical Anthropology
Resenha do livro "Comum: ensaio sobre a revolução no século XXI" de Pierre Dardot e Christian Laval. A obra merece destaque tanto pela análise acurada que faz da bibliografia sobre o ‘comum’ e os ‘comuns’ quanto pela forma original... more
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      Marxist theoryFilosofía PolíticaCiencia Politica
Taking Documenta 14 as a case study, and especially the demands towards this institution presented in the Artists against Evictions letter of April 2017 (eflux), the chapter focuses on the intricate ideological conflicts defining the... more
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      Art TheoryContemporary ArtNationalismMarxist theory
Introduction to Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader (2014)
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      Critical TheoryMarxismCultural TheoryPost-Marxism
This paper considers perspectives on marriage in the Queer and feminist community reviewing key contemporary thinkers on the subject and using direct interviews and material from radical Queer activists and academics in the field. It... more
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      Critical TheoryFeminist SociologyGender StudiesQueer Studies
This paper demonstrates how Henri Lefebvre's influential theory of the "production of space" can help generate a more critical understanding of transformations in digital music, and in particular, the emergence of... more
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      SociologySpace and PlaceMarxist theoryHenri Lefebvre
A partir da crítica marxiana a Feuerbach, conforme interpretamos aqui no tocaente à questão da consciência, apresentamos uma compreensão da ideologia para além da caricata noção de imediato falseamento do real. É o seguinte: se fosse o... more
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      Political PhilosophyMarxismMarxologyIdeology
Якщо французький філософ не помітив принцип читання у фрагменті про читання, який їм згадувався, то що можна говорити про всі ті, можливі, фрагменти, що не згадані філософом? Може Маркс сам не визначився з питанням про читання? Одним... more
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      PhilosophyMarxismLouis AlthusserReading
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      MarxismCapitalismMarxist theorySociology of the Middle Classes
Entrevista publicada el 15/11/2016 en La Izquierda Diario
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      Marxist theoryGramsciAntonio Gramsci
This is a brief review that I wrote a while ago as an introduction to a paper I have yet to publish. Essentially, it's a thinking piece I wouldn't mind getting some feedback on. Comments are thus highly welcome! Critical theory is a very... more
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      Critical TheoryTeaching English as a Second LanguageMarxismCritical Pedagogy