Capitalism is a social and economic system that is prevalent in most parts of the world excluding socialist and communist countries. It is a system that encourages private ownership and entrepreneurship and does
I. Lenin, who extended Karl Marx’s theories on capitalism and communism as he wrote Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism (1916). Dependency theory, which was nurtured in the Economic Commission for Latin America, was a later version of neo-Marxism, arguing that dependency of the less...
Irrespective of the trajectory of this emergent phase of re-regulation, particularly after the 2008 global finance crisis, these remakings can be conceptualized as supplements reinforcing an imaginary of capitalism as the solution to, rather than progenitor of, uneven development. Through discourses of...
In the following, I take these Foucauldian perspectives on capitalism, state power and sexual politics as analytical instru- ment to approach the interplay of sexual politics and neoliberalism. The Flexibilization of the Apparatus of Sexuality In 2001, Germany introduced a same-sex-partnership law; ...
the world. And now, with#climatechaosaccelerating, that failure is no longer academic – it’s existential. The current shift to state-led green transitions is a tacit admission that capitalism, cannot handle any future. To shift this, we need strong, progressive states, and we need them ...
‘Neoliberalism’ is a widely used term that travelled from economic philosophy into policymaking, and from policymaking into critical social scientific discourse in the late twentieth century. It refers to a form of capitalism ascendant since the 1970s but informed by post-war economic philosophical ...
and simultaneously against an older tradition of political economy that encoded a racialized and gendered conception of the nature of production and the economy. We must theorize the relationships between the carceral state and capitalism and ask how we can constitute democratic publics in a global sy...
The irony of Whitlam’s reforming agenda was that his Labor Party embarked on its course of welfare capitalism at the very moment when the conditions that made it possible were disappearing. The social democratic regimes that served as the model for Whitlamite reformists were constructed in the ...
The ascendancy of neoliberalism and corporate culture in every aspect of American life not only consolidates economic power in the hands of the few; it also aggressively attempts to break the power of unions, decouple income from productivity, subordinate the needs of society to the market, reduce...
This concept is not without its critics, with some arguing that neoliberalism is not a neatly demarcated period of capitalism but is instead “rooted in a set of geographically interlinked colonial and racial capitalist histories”. (Axter et al.,2021, p. 417). We agree that in the case of...