“People who pronounce themselves in favour of the method of legislative reform in place and in contradistinction to the conquest of political power and social revolution, do not really choose a more tranquil, calmer and slower road to the same goal, but a different goal.”
Category: Analysis and Dialogue
political party-ism and power
Raoul Hedebouw, leader of the Workers Party of Belgium, interviewed by David Broder, Jacobin: As for the national level, I think this poses a real strategic question: Where does macroeconomic power lie in the European capitalist nation-states? I’ve been in parliament for eight years now and I’ve seen a lot of…
David Harvey-capitalism is the problem
“Capitalism is not the Solution to Urban America’s Problems–Capitalism Itself is the Problem”, Jacobin, 6 June, 2020.
Richard Lewontin
“What being radical means: going back to fundamentals in deriving a viewpoint.” Richard Lewontin & Richard Levins “In political movements we often have to defend the importance of theory as a protection against being overwhelmed by the urgency of need in the momentary and the local, while in academia we…
eviscerated democracy
Canada’s eviscerated democracy: Minority government and representative democracy as symptoms On 20 September, 2021, Canadians voted to hold the line. While 40 seats changed hands, the number of seats won by each of the parties was so close to the ones they already held that the overall outcome…