Capital & Class articles from March 2005

Capital & Class archives from March 2005

Talking Turkey for democracy: fundamentalism, fascism and the EU.
March 22, 2005... In order to understand the current situation in Turkey, it lis important to first understand that the country's Troubled democracy is one characterised by growing inequality, running concurrently with the liberalisation of the economy that...

On John Holloway's Change the World Without Taking Power: the meaning of revolution today.(Forum)
March 22, 2005... This Forum discusses John Holloway's Change the World Without Taking Power. Inspirational and provocative, the book is a call for emancipatory reflection and thus an important contribution to the politics of resistance of our times....

A call for emancipatory reflection: introduction to the forum.
March 22, 2005... Not long ago, the demiurges of postmodernism seemed to have been relatively successful in spreading the idea that to change the world (or even to think about it) was the task of incorrigible activists, who deserved a special place in a museum...

Sympathy for the devil? John Holloway's Mephistophelian Marxism.(Forum)
March 22, 2005... John Holloway's Change the World Without Taking Power stands alongside Hardt and Negri's Empire as one of the two key texts of contemporary autonomist Marxism. This does not mean that the two books represent identical positions. Holloway makes...

!Que se vayan todos! Out with them all!(Forum)(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... The super-limo of the general manager of the BBV--the most important Spanish bank in Argentina--drove solemnly through Solano, one of the poorest sections of Greater Buenos Aires. Let us use our imagination: it is sunset on the 19th and 20th of...

To change the world we need revolutionary democracy.(Forum)
March 22, 2005... John Holloway's book is a remarkable essay, thought-provoking and truly radical in the original sense of the word, of 'going to the root of the problem'. Whatever its problems and weaknesses, it brings to the fore, in an impressive way, the...

Hopeful voyage; uncertain point of arrival?(Forum)
March 22, 2005... Change the World Without Taking Power is an extraordinary book. It's a ship that weighs anchor in search of the contemporary meaning of the revolution; that clearly perceives the reefs confronting its adventure and, notwithstanding its...

Contemporary struggle in Europe: 'anti-power' or counter-power?
March 22, 2005... As soon as you abandon the idea of the state merely as an institution, as a function, and begin to recognise it as a form of social relations, a completely new way of struggle opens up. It is possible to see many...

Nouns and verbs; or, Holloway's understanding of revolution.(Forum)
March 22, 2005... Change the World Without Taking Power has already been widely debated, especially as regards the political connotations of the book. For that reason, it is difficult for the reviewer to fuel the political debate with fresh considerations; but a...

The state as a contradiction.(Forum)
March 22, 2005... In these notes, I want to discuss some topics related to the concepts of state and power that John Holloway proposes. Holloway says that 'the objective of taking power inevitably involves an instrumentalisation of the struggle', and that...

Holloway on power and the 'state illusion'.(Forum)
March 22, 2005... According to Holloway, 'the nucleus of the novelty of Zapatismo is the project of changing the world without taking power' (Holloway, 2001a: 174). In a penetrating literary metaphor, the Zapatistas proclaimed that 'it is not necessary to...

Change the world without taking power.
March 22, 2005... The book is an invitation to discuss, and to all those who have commented on the book, however adverse their criticism, I am very grateful for their acceptance of the invitation. (1) The experience of the last two years has been rather like...

Critical theory in Global Political Economy: critique? Knowledge? emancipation?
March 22, 2005... So much literature in the field of International Relations stakes a claim for its author taking a 'critical' position. But the expression 'critical' is overused. It appears everywhere, and in a promiscuously wide range of contexts: critical...

The National Childcare Strategy: the social regulation of lone mothers as a gendered reserve army of labour.
March 22, 2005... Introduction New Labour's National Childcare Strategy (NCS) was outlined in Meeting the Childcare Challenge (Secretary of State for Education and Employment et al., 1998). The NCS was introduced by New Labour as a market-led approach to...

Social policy, social exclusion and commodity fetishism.
March 22, 2005... Introduction Since 1997, the New Labour government has developed administered contemporary social policy around the ideals of social inclusion. The Social Exclusion Unit (SEU), Welfare to Work and New Deal Programmes (1998) provide the...

A precarious balance: neoliberalism, crisis management, and the social implosion in Jamaica.
March 22, 2005... Everyone is cryin' out for peace No one is cryin' out for justice. Peter Tosh in 'Equal Rights' ... laws for the constraining of violence are laws of the ghetto, wearing a democratic mask. A society of equality and...

Christopher J. Arthur: the New Dialectic and Marx's Capital.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Christopher J. Arthur The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital Brill, Leiden, 2002, 263 pp. ISBN 90-0412-798-4 (hbk) 35 [pounds sterling] ISBN 90-0413-643-6 (pbk) 21.50 [pounds sterling] This book presents a combination of...

Umut Ozkyrymly (ed.): Nationalism and its Futures.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Umut Ozkyrymly (ed.) Nationalism and its Futures Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2003, x + 157 pp. ISBN 1-4039-1713-2 (hbk) 45.00 [pounds sterling] With nationalist politics ascendant in many countries, there is evidently a...

Mark Neocleous: Imagining the State.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Mark Neocleous Imagining the State Open University Press, Maidenhead and Philadelphia, 2003, 174 pp. ISBN 0-335-20351-5 (pbk) 15.99 [pounds sterling] This is another very interesting book from Mark Neocleous, who draws on his...

Rajiv Prabhakar: Stakeholding and New Labour.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Rajiv Prabhakar Stakeholding and New Labour Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2003, xii + 177 pp. ISBN 1-4039-0360-3 (hbk) 45 [pounds sterling] 1996 was a pre-election year in Britain. The Thatcher-Major Conservative regimes...

Magnus Ryner: Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way: Lessons from the Swedish Model.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Magnus Ryner Capitalist Restructuring, Globalisation and the Third Way: Lessons from the Swedish Model Routledge, London and New York, 2002, 288 pp. ISBN 0-415-25294-6 (hbk) 65.00 [pounds sterling] Throughout the post-war era,...

Geoff Evans, James Goodman and Nina Lansbury (eds.): Moving Mountains: Communities Confront Mining & Globalisation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Geoff Evans, James Goodman and Nina Lansbury (eds.) Moving Mountains: Communities Confront Mining & Globalisation Zed Books, London, 2002, xxiii + 284 pp. ISBN: 1-8427-7199-X (pbk) 15.95 [pounds sterling] Moving Mountains is a...

Ronaldo Munck: Globalisation and Labour: the New 'Great Transformation'.(Book Review)
March 22, 2005... Ronaldo Munck Globalisation and Labour: The New 'Great Transformation' Zed Books, London and New-York, 2002, 220 pp. ISBN 1 84277 071 3 (pbk) 14.95 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 84277 070 5 (hbk) 45.00 [pounds sterling] Let me...

Books available for review.
March 22, 2005... If any reader would like to review any of the books listed below, please email either Andrew McCulloch (Andrew.McCulloch@unn.ac.uk) or John Stirling (John.Stirling@unn.ac.uk). Abu-Rabi', I. M. (2004) Contemporary A tab Thought: Studies in...