Tag: Neoliberalism
Dollar Signs
Spectre Editorial Board member Izzy Plowright interviews Rohan Shah about the roots of our contemporary moment in economic restructuring of 1970s and ’80s.
What Are We Waiting For?
This two-part essay draws upon crisis theory and the history of economic crises to reflect on the current turbulence and the next economic crisis. This second part of the essay develops a theoretical framework for socialist resistance and movement coordination for when the next crisis hits.
What Are We Waiting For?
This two-part essay draws upon crisis theory and the history of economic crises to reflect on the current turbulence and the next economic crisis. The first part of the essay begins by drawing on the work of Daniel Bensaïd and Bob Jessop to reconceptualize crises as societal paroxysms—highlighting the role crises play both as disruptions and transformative reconsolidations of the capitalist order. From this starting point, the remainder of Part One explores how we might understand economic crises in the 2020s and the near future.
Neoliberal Georgia and the Challenges of the Antigovernment Protests
Giorgi Kartveshlishvili and Giorgi Khasaia argue for a robust antineoliberal politics as a solution to the liberal deadlock of narrowly political demands.
Lula in Historical and Political Context
Alice Taylor reviews Fernando Morais’s Lula: A Biography, arguing that Morais’s focus on Lula ignores the political context and shifting role of Lulismo.
The Centrality of Reproduction and the Question of Labor Power
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Rebecca Carson’s Immanent Externalities, arguing that social reproduction politics demands a recentering of labor power.
Tearing Down the Welfare State
Onni Ahvonen and Juulia Kela analyze the complicity between neoliberal austerity and disaster nationalism undermining the Finnish welfare state.
The Kenyan Uprising
Zachary J. Patterson analyzes the neocolonial history fueling the Kenyan uprising and the organizational strategies of the #RutoMustGo movement.
Syria’s Protest Movement
Joseph Daher analyzes the causes, scope, strategy, and possible growth of the ongoing regime protest movement in Syria.
Resisting the Debt System
Ashley Smith interviews Éric Toussaint about the history of the debt system and its new crisis.