Book in English on the rise of nazism in today’s Greece
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Dimitris Psarras, a researcher and journalist studying the far right phenomenon in Greece for over 30 years, had a book published in English, with Rosa Luxenburg institute, explaining the history, the particularity and the realities of the far right in … |
Articles from the late Eric Hobsbawm
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The work of the great Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who recently passed away at the age of 95, can be traced through some articles provided here : http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/past/hobsbawm.html… |
Occupying Language: To Walk Asking Questions
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This is the theme of a fascinating new book, Occupying Language, by Marina Sitrin and Dario Azzellini in the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series. The authors situate the present Occupy movement in the context of the insurgent movements in Latin … |
“Revolt and Crisis in Greece” now available online
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The book is available here. Excerpt from revoltcrisis.org … |
Post-Anarchism: A Reader
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What do Michel Foucault and Buffy the Vampire Slayer have in common? What political lessons can we extract from the direct action experiences of the last years? How can we deconstruct the assumptions behind common words and build new meanings, … |
The new spirit of capitalism (Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello, 2005)
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Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots. Via an unprecedented analysis … |
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism by David Harvey
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Taking a long view of the current economic crisis, eminent academic David Harvey explains how capitalism came to dominate the world and why it resulted in the current financial crisis. For three centuries, the capitalist system has shaped western society, … |
Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)
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Before there was money, there was debt Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems—to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version … |
