Capital & Class articles from June 2008

Capital & Class archives from June 2008

A critique of John Holloway's Change the World Without Taking Power.(Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... The question of the state Holloway's critical theory in Change the World Without Taking Power begins with a reflection on the scream--an expression of our collective anger at witnessing and experiencing oppression. This rage at oppression...

NHS LIFT and the new shape of neoliberal welfare.(National Health Service local improvement finance trust)(Essay)
June 22, 2008... 1. Introduction This paper discusses the NHS LIFT (local improvement finance trust) programme as an indicator of current trends in neoliberal welfare. LIFT, a new form of public-private partnership (PPP), offers an even more radical vision...

Captive labour and the free market: prisoners and production in the USA.(Essay)
June 22, 2008... One central contradiction of capitalism that has been intensified in the neoliberal era is that the increased mobility and legal and economic freedom of capital generally corresponds to the decreased mobility and constrained economic, political...

The logic of a justified hope: The dialectic of police reform in Northern Ireland.
June 22, 2008... Abstract This article examines proposals for the reform of the relationship between internal security and state-society relations in Northern Ireland and finds a divergence from the usual liberal package of police reforms. These proposals...

History, scarcity, praxis ... and Stalin?(Critique of Dialectical Reason)(Joseph Stalin)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2008... Review essay: Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, Volume II Foreword by Frederic Jameson, translated by Quintin Hoare Verso, 2006, 480pp. ISBN: 1-844-67077-5 (pbk) 20 [pounds sterling] This essay will explore...

Jean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge, John Rundell and Robert Sinnerbrink (eds.): Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Jean-Philippe Deranty, Danielle Petherbridge, John Rundell and Robert Sinnerbrink (eds.) Recognition, Work, Politics: New Directions in French Critical Theory Brill, 2007, 315 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-15788-0 (bbk) 55 [pounds sterling]...

Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff (eds.): New Departures in Marxian Theory.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Stephen A. Resnick and Richard D. Wolff (eds.) New Departures in Marxian Theory Routledge, 2006, 418 pp. ISBN: 0-415-77025-4 (bbk) 90 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 0-415-77026-2 (pbk) 30 [pounds sterling] This book builds on the...

R. Arnott and D. McMillen (eds.): A Companion to Urban Economics.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... R. Arnott and D. McMillen (eds.) A Companion to Urban Economics Blackwell, 2006, 574pp. ISBN: 1405106298 (hbk) 95 [pounds sterling] This book is the fruit of collaborative work that aims to contribute to the discussion on the...

Gavan McCormack: Client State: Japan in the American Embrace.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Gavan McCormack Client State: Japan in the American Embrace Verso, 2007, 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84467-133-5 (pbk) 18 [pounds sterling] This book comprises one of the very first comprehensive accounts of Japan at the beginning of...

David Goodway: Anarchist Seeds Beneath the snow: left-libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... David Goodway Anarchist Seeds Beneath the snow: left-libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward Liverpool University Press, 2006, 401 pp. ISBN: 1-84631-026-1 (pbk) 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN:...

Alain Badiou: Polemics.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Alain Badiou Polemics Translated and with an introduction by Steve Corcoran. Part 2, Chapter 8 by Cecile Winter Verso, 2006, 339pp. ISBN: 1-84467-089-9 (hbk) 18 [pounds sterling] This volume comprises a collection of...

Kim Moody: US Labor In Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below.(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Kim Moody US Labor In Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below Verso, 2007, 296 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84467-154-0 (pbk) 20 [pounds sterling] In this, his third book on the state of...

Timothy S. Murphy and Abdul-Karim Mustapha (eds.) The Philosophy of Antonio Negri, Volume I: Resistance in Practice.(Volume II: Revolution in Theory)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Timothy S. Murphy and Abdul-Karim Mustapha (eds.) The Philosophy of Antonio Negri, Volume I: Resistance in Practice Pluto Press, 2005, 278 pp. ISBN: 978-0745323374 (pbk) 18 [pounds sterling] The Philosophy of Antonio Negri,...

Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed.) Reinventing Social Emancipation: Toward New Manifestos (Volumes I, II & III of five volumes) Volume I: Democratising Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon.(Volume II: Another Production is Possible: Beyond the Capitalist Canon, Volume III: Another Knowledge is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies)(Book review)
June 22, 2008... Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed.) Reinventing Social Emancipation: Toward New Manifestos (Volumes I, II & III of five volumes) Volume I: Democratising Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon Verso, 2005: 512 pp. ISBN:...