Tag Archives: Politics & Society

Duncan Weldon made a good point recently when he tweeted that the “disconnect between British political discourse and opinion of mainstream economic opinion feels extreme” … Which poses the question. Why is there the disconnect Duncan notes? Here are some (non-exclusive possibilities): – The transmission mechanism from academic economics to policy is broken. This is partly a supply-side problem. Academics are more concerned with bureaucracy and writing unreadable, unread and...

La ‘cancel culture’ aux Etats-Unis Aux Etats-Unis, la nouvelle gauche, née des mouvements #metoo et Black Lives Matter, serait à l’origine d’un phénomène qui inquiète de nombreux intellectuels américains, la « cancel culture », autrement dit une tendance à vouloir faire taire des voix jugées dissonantes, dangereuses ou haineuses. Né sur les réseaux sociaux, ce phénomène se traduit par des mobilisations qui ont fini par provoquer des démissions, renvois,...

Why the euro has to be abandoned if Europe is to be saved The euro has taken away the possibility for national governments to manage their economies in a meaningful way — and the people have​ had to pay the true costs of its concomitant misguided austerity policies. The unfolding of the repeated economic crises in euroland during the last decade has shown beyond any doubts that the euro is not only an economic project​ but just as much a political one. What...

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Das Attentat vom 20. Juli 1940  [embedded content] Wo liegt eigentlich der Punkt, an dem man widerstehen muss, wenn man nicht die Freiheit hoffnungslos preisgeben will, die Freiheit, die keine Macht der Welt wieder herstellen kann? Diese Frage lässt sich mit einem Wort beantworten. Dieses eine Wort heisst Verantwortung im Sinne letzter persönlicher Verantwortung. Wo die persönliche Verantwortung negiert und dahinten gelassen wird, gibt es keine Freiheit...

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[embedded content] The Srebrenica genocide is the worst episode of mass murder within Europe since World War II. In July 1995 more than 7,000 Bosnian Muslims were slain by Bosnian Serb forces. Today we pay tribute to the victims. Let us never forget them. [embedded content]

I stället för att använda den möjlighet som Coronakrisen inneburit att göra rent hus med nyliberalismens falska berättelser, har den socialdemokratiska partiledningen valt att försvara den ekonomiska politik som förts sedan 1990-talet … Trots att nästan alla länder vi brukar jämföra oss med har kunnat göra lika stora eller betydligt större finanspolitiska satsningar i krisen, talas här i landet om att det skulle vara tack vare “ansvarsfull” sparpolitik förut som vi nu kan...

The concept of dynamics The concept of dynamics, which complements bourgeois “ahistoricity,” is raised to something absolute, while it nevertheless, as the anthropological reflex of the laws of production, must be critically confronted in the emancipated society with need. The idea of unfettered doing, of uninterrupted creating, of chubby-cheeked insatiability, of freedom as intense activity, feeds on the bourgeois concept of nature, which from time...

Thus luxury is being hollowed out. For in the middle of general fungibility, happiness clings without exception to what is not fungible. No exertion of humanity, no formal reasoning can alter the fact that the clothing which shimmers like a fairy-tale is worn by the one and only, not by twenty-thousand others. Under capitalism, the utopia of the qualitative — what by virtue of its difference and uniqueness does not enter into the ruling exchange relationship — flees into the...