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2. Lenin’s Conception of Revolution as Civil War
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Getzler, Israel and Thatcher, Ian D., editor
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- 1999
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3. Language and the Politics of Identity in the USSR
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Walker, Rachel and Urban, Michael E., editor
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- 1992
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4. Soviet Experimentalism Routed: S. T. Shatsky’s Last Years
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Fradkin, Feliks Aronovich and Eklof, Ben, editor
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- 1993
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5. The Civil War in Russia at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century (1603–1607): Its Character and Motive Forces
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Skrynnikov, Ruslan G. and Hughes, Lindsey, editor
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- 1993
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6. The Crisis of Ideology and the Ideology of Crisis: Marxist Critiques of the Polish Socialist System 1956–90
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Taras, Raymond and Urban, Michael E., editor
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- 1992
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7. Marxist Historiography and the History Profession in Poland, 1944–55
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Lewis, Richard D. and Morison, John, editor
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- 1992
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8. Critical Management Studies Division. Plenary Paper. ‘The violence of the 'we'’ in the age of Brexit, Trump and the resurgence of the Far Right
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Harding, Nancy
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Brexit, Referendum, UK ,SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions ,class struggle ,SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth ,liberalism - Abstract
I come from a large, extended working-class family, some of which is ‘respectable’ and some of which is not (as I will explain). I was the first member to go to university (as a mature student) and so far only my father (who graduated when he was 80), one sister, and my elder son have followed in my footsteps. These class roots are what attracted me to CMS, even though we seem to have abandoned ‘class’ as an identity in our studies. Many of my relatives work for the minimum wage, or on temporary, limited-hour contracts. Some do not work at all and rely (more or less happily) on the (British) state for their income. Amongst their number are racists, misogynists, and probably all other ‘ists’ we can think of. I, of course, as a good left-leaning liberal sort of person/typical CMS adherent, claim to be none of these things, or rather someone who strives to be none of these things. But following the Brexit vote I learned to climb down from my high horse and listen actively to the family conversations for and against Brexit. I had to learn to put aside my rush to condemnatory judgement and (re)learn the lay theories that I had forgotten or put aside as I took on the identity of ‘academic’. In this talk I want to return to those lay theories and explore what they may teach us about ourselves, we left-leaning, liberal, CMS types. I want to explore in whose name we strive to be critically performative political activists. Whose freedom from managerialism and neo-liberalism are we striving to achieve? And if that vaguely defined ‘freedom’ were ever to be achieved, would it take the form dictated by yet another master: us, we left-leaning, apparently liberal-minded, CMS types?
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- 2018
9. SUPEREXPLORAÇÃO E RESISTÊNCIA DOS TRABALHADORES(AS) TERCEIRIZADOS NA AGROINDÚSTRIA "4.0" DE EUCALIPTO, CELULOSE E PAPEL EM TRÊS LAGOAS (MS).
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Amorim Oliveira, André Luis
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- 2022
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10. Transforming food systems in the Global South: a radical approach.
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Suarez, Andres and Ume, Chukwuma
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DEVELOPING countries ,AGRICULTURE ,AGRICULTURAL ecology ,CONSUMPTION (Economics) ,SUSTAINABILITY - Abstract
Sustainability within food systems (FS) transcends approaches that only consider FS transformation via changing agricultural practices or consumption patterns. The essence lies in addressing the root causes of current unsustainable FS and their associated social and environmental ramifications. This paper aims to outline the solutions needed to revamp these challenges, by paying special attention to the state-capital nexus in the context of the FS'global core-periphery dialectics. Thereby, we embrace radical political agroecology as being essential in promoting sustainability within the FS, especially in the Global South. Agroecology is proposed as the strategy to address the food system's complexity in terms of the social, environmental, and economic embeddedness. We conclude with potential solutions that contribute to the pathway for FS sustainability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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11. Preface.
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Das, Raju J. and Latham, Robert E.
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MARXIST philosophy ,SOCIAL context - Abstract
The three articles were originally presented as papers on a panel organized by Robert Latham, at the Socialist Studies Conference at York University in 2023. While more or less focused on Marxism in academia, the articles deal with different regional contexts: Hyun Ok Park deals with South Korea, Robert Latham with the US, and Raju Das with India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
12. Exploring Relevance of the Proletariat-Bourgeoise Interplay in the Great Expectations for Understanding Socio-Economic Challenges in Contemporary Pakistani Society.
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Khalid, Gul, Sania, and Khan, Naznina Hakim
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SOCIOECONOMICS ,SOCIAL conflict ,MARXIST philosophy ,QUALITATIVE research - Abstract
The paper discusses socio-economic relations of the bourgeoisie and proletariat relating them to present-day contemporary Pakistani society. The paper is broken down into sections where class consciousness, struggle, and mobility are discussed in view of a Marxist framework and aligned with that of the Victorian English era and that of today's Pakistan. The present paper, therefore, employing qualitative research methods, including close reading, finds persistent class conflicts and socio-economic disparities, in unison with the struggles laid down by Dickens in his narrative. The implications of the findings strongly hint at the fact that these historical literary insights can be of substantial help in guiding socio-economic reforms within the domain of Pakistan. Future research recommendations are to point towards precise measures on how class disparities in Pakistani society could be alleviated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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13. Critical Intellectualism: The Role of Black Consciousness in Reconfiguring the Race-Class Problematic in South Africa
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Ally, Nurina, Ally, Shireen, Mngxitama, Andile, editor, Alexander, Amanda, editor, and Gibson, Nigel C., editor
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- 2008
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14. The Republican Imaginary: Hegemony and its Reproduction
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Dell, Simon and Dell, Simon
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- 2007
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15. El FMI como instrumento clave en la lucha de clases: reflexiones a partir de América Latina.
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Barkin, David and Santarcángelo, Juan
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INTERNATIONAL finance , *SOCIAL conflict , *CAPITAL financing , *CONCRETE , *SOCIAL dominance - Abstract
The aim of this paper is: first, to show that the relationship between Latin America and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a faithful reflection of a class struggle on a world scale, where the correlation of internal and external forces has been articulated over the years in favor of capital; second, to analyze the concrete possibilities that the region will face in the future if it intends to reverse this unfavorable history. The paper argues that the IMF has played a key role in the reconfiguration and extension of the dominance of international finance capital over the productive resources of Latin America by favoring the consolidation of a local capitalist class subordinated to the designs and power of transnational capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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16. 'Working as Though For Their Self': Coalwood, Class Struggle and Capitalism's Cracks.
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Wurst, LouAnn
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SOCIAL conflict ,LABOR movement ,CAPITALISM ,LABOR unions ,HISTORICAL archaeology - Abstract
Much of the archaeology and history of labor is based on organized labor, unions, and strikes, and the common rhetoric emphasizes the success or failure of union strike activities. This frames labor activism with clear winners and losers and inadvertently adopts the vantage point of capital. Given the modern world where union membership is plummeting, "success" seems even more unlikely. In this paper, I use the case of the Coalwood lumber camp to argue that labor's "success" was much more complicated than simply winning strikes. Recognizing the difference between concrete and abstract labor provides a way to think about worker's decisions to structure their lives based more on concrete than alienated labor that gives them more autonomy over their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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17. Class struggle and the origins of finance capital in Britain, 1870–1920.
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Kennedy, Peter
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SOCIAL conflict ,FINANCE capitalism ,SOCIAL democracy - Abstract
Marxists often link the emergence of finance capital to developments in the categories of capital, such as flight to money capital, sometimes associated with changes in the organic composition of capital. While not disputing the importance of transformations in capitalist categories, this paper examines the causal role of working-class agency in the emergence of finance capital. The paper addresses finance capital in Britain, giving due consideration to a variety of causal factors cementing its dominance. It then considers the role of labour unrest in developing a working class in itself, gravitating towards and away from political expressions (syndicalism, social democracy) in pursuance of its immediate economic struggles. The overall argument is that the emergence of finance capital in the parasitic form it took in Britain was fundamentally a response to the power of a working class in itself. Parasitism became the default trend to control the working class and prevent any potential movement towards a working class for itself from gaining hegemony. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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18. Kalecki and Marx Reconnected.
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Kriesler, Peter and Halevi, Joseph
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CAPITAL stock ,SAVINGS ,MONOPOLY capitalism ,CAPITALISM ,HISTORICAL materialism - Abstract
The paper considers the nature that Kalecki's contributions represent a significant contribution to the Marxist tradition. While we argue that the underlying method of both Marx and Kalecki — their vision of society and its dynamics — and much of their analysis is fundamentally the same, differences arise because of the development of capitalism and the different stages of society each is analysing. For Kalecki, developed capitalist economies have reached a stage of capital accumulation where the existing capital stock is sufficient to employ all the economy's labour. Associated with this is the rise of imperfectly competitive firms. The economic dynamics of capitalism have evolved as a result, with growth and employment being determined by different factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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19. Sınıf ve kültürel kimlikler üzerinden katı atık toplayıcılarının gündelik çalışma pratikleri: Ankara ilinde nitel bir araştırma
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Oran, Serter, Savcı, İlkay, and Çalışma Ekonomisi ve Endüstri İlişkileri Anabilim Dalı
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Work ,Class culture ,Cultural identity ,Working conditions ,Work practices ,Search for identity ,Waste paper picking ,Çalışma Ekonomisi ve Endüstri İlişkileri ,Class struggle ,Sociology ,Ankara ,Labour Economics and Industrial Relations ,Sosyoloji ,Organization - Abstract
Katı atık toplayıcıları yaşamlarını çöp toplayarak kazananlar, gelişmekte olan ülkelerde geri dönüşüm sisteminin kilit aktörleridir. Oldukça eski bir tarihçeye sahip toplayıcılık faaliyetinin son dönemlerde özellikle Türkiye'de görünür olmasının sebebi geri dönüşüm faaliyetinin yaratmış olduğu paylaşıma açık rant unsurunun geri dönüşüm aktörleri arasında paylaşılma mücadelesi ve bu süreçte toplayıcıların zincir dışında bırakılma amacıdır. Dünya genelinde söz konusu zincirin içinde kalabilmek için kati atik toplayıcılarının örgütlenme örneklerine sıkça rastlanırken Türkiye için benzer bir mücadelenin henüz gelişim aşamasında olduğu söylenebilir. Bu çalışma Türkiye'deki katı atık toplayıcılarının sınıf ve kültürel kimlik ekseninde mevcut durumlarını ortaya koyarak örgütlenme deneyimlerini, yaşam pratiklerini keşfetme amacıyla kaleme alınmıştır. Aynı zamanda bu çalışma özellikle katı atık yönetimi konusunda söz sahibi olan tarafları bilgilendirme ve katı atık yönetmeliğinin yeniden düzenlenme aşamasında taraflarla diyalog kurma amacı taşırken, katı atık toplayıcılarının örgütlenme ihtiyaçlarına da yön verme düşüncesindedir. Waste pickers are the key actors in the recycling system in developing countries, winning their lives by garbage collection. Waste picking activities has a long history however it has recently been faded out in Turkey. The main reason of this visibility situation depends on the conflicts between recycling actors in order to share unearned income and to exclude waste pickers from this recycling chain. It can be said that while the organization examples of waste pickers are frequently encountered in order to stay within the chain of the world in general, a similar struggle for Turkey is still in development stage. This study has been carried out in order to reveal the current situation of waste pickers in Turkey on the axis of class and cultural identity and to discover organization experiences and life practices. At the same time, this study is also intended to inform the parties who are a part of waste management and to direct the organization needs of waste pickers while aiming to establish dialogue with the parties in the reorganization phase of waste management. 338
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- 2017
20. Disparate but not antagonistic: Classes of labour in cotton production in Burkina Faso.
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Engels, Bettina
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WORKING class ,SOCIAL conflict ,COTTON farmers ,COLLECTIVE action ,INDUSTRIAL workers - Abstract
This paper examines the variety of agrarian classes of labour and the challenges they face in organizing and pursuing their interests. By taking the cotton sector in Burkina Faso as a case study, it analyses how various 'classes of labour' organize and mobilize for collective action to raise their claims: poor cotton farmers and workers in the cotton factories. Poor and middle farmers recently came to the fore when they boycotted cotton production in large numbers. The study focusses on the boycott campaign, and more broadly on class struggle and collective action by farmers and workers, on interclass alliances, and on capital's attempts to play the classes of labour against one another. The boycott campaign provides an outstanding case to analyse the interests of the various classes of labour and of opportunities for rural–urban mobilization and alliances across classes of labour. I argue that poor farmers and factory workers along the chain of cotton production can be considered as various classes of labour that are not necessarily antagonistic to one another but, first and foremost, to capital. In order to achieve radical transformation in the agrarian context, what is needed are networks and organizations to establish interclass solidarity and alliances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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21. Introduction: The struggle before us.
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Léger, Marc James
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POLITICAL development ,INTERSECTIONALITY ,CRITICAL race theory ,SOCIAL conflict ,PUBLIC art ,CULTURAL appropriation ,COLD War, 1945-1991 - Abstract
The introduction to this Special Issue of the journal Art & the Public Sphere, titled 'The Struggle Before Us', addresses the aims and outcomes of the project. It reiterates the themes of the call for papers and focuses on the impact of postmodern theory and the cultural turn on socialist class struggle. The political tendencies within radical democracy, Marxist autonomism and left populism are related to the growing influence of the anti-liberal and anti-Marxist – because anti-universalist – academic trends of privilege theory, critical race theory, intersectionality and decoloniality. This is related to political developments since the Cold War and the rise to hegemonic status of a petty-bourgeois mode of cultural appropriation. The introduction takes issue with the notion that post-Fordism represents the termination of the so-called classical phase of socialism and argues instead that contemporary contradictions between identity and class are inscribed within the ongoing struggle between labour and capital. A lecture by Alain Badiou is used to complete the analysis, with definitions of Marxist militancy related to Marx's class-oriented transformation of German idealism, English political economy and the French workers' movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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22. OF RAJUK AND DEMASCULINIZATION. EXAMINING CLASS INEQUALITY AND GENDER REPRESENTATIONS IN HUSSAIN HANIFF'S HANG JEBAT (1961).
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Rahman, Muhamad Farid Bin Abdul, Ahmad, Mahyuddin, and Lee, Adrian
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GENDER inequality ,INSURGENCY ,SOCIAL conflict ,STORYTELLING ,FILM characters - Abstract
During the Golden Age of Malay cinema, Hussain Haniff was a prolific filmmaker who made 12 films within a period of five years. Started as an extra, escalated to editor, Hussain Haniff's films mostly questioned the powers advocating the subject of rebellion and class injustice. Known as a rebel with modernist approaches, Hussain Haniff made films with rebellion being the theme within its narratives. This can be seen in his first directorial debut Hang Jebat (1961) that tells the story of how the warrior Hang Jebat stood up for his comrade Hang Tuah who was unjustly sent to the gallows. Hang Jebat in defying the orders of the Sultan and thinking that Hang Tuah had been executed, went into a fit of rage and as an act of rebellion ran amok while killing several villagers. In the Malay culture and Malay purbawara films, this treasonous act of rebellion known as "durhaka" is caused by an expression of "rajuk" - the sulk, or "merajuk" - the act of sulking, and occurs when a servant or warrior rebels against the act of injustice of his master. This paper aims to discuss the act of merajuk which often stereotyped as a feminine trait but in Hang Jebat it can be understood as a form of rebellion against feudalism and can be further attributed to understanding issues related to marginalisation and class oppression. Through an intertextual study of this film, this paper unravels how the rajuk of Hang Jebat represents an act of rebellion that challenges class inequality and gender representations. This article analyses rajuk in two main focuses; firstly on how explosive rajuk which is an allegory to the anti-feudal nature is expressed by Hang Jebat and how rajuk resulted an implication in his more feminine character compare to his rebel character at the beginning of this film. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
23. THE PLACE OF LITERARY CRITICISM IN THE MARXIST-LENINIST-MAOIST PRAXIS OF THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT.
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Espejo, Lance
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MATERIALIZATION ,DEMOCRACY - Abstract
For Marx, "The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism of the weapon, material force must be overthrown by material force" ("A Contribution To The Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right"). Marx also says, "theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses." It is this materialization of critical thought as theory which this paper expounds on. Marx says that this materialization happens in man himself, hence theory--or thought--is embodied. This paper, first, strives to expose the underlying class struggle which helps shape the discourse, which in this case, is literary criticism. Second, it aims to zero in on how literary theory and criticism places itself in a movement according to the theory and practice of Marx-Lenin-Mao, and see how these principles were initially theorized and practiced in the context of the Philippine National Democratic Movement until the present in broad strokes. From the writings of Marx-Lenin-Mao, to the workshop guides by ARMAS, to the polemical attacks of Edel E. Garcellano against reactionary "literary shitheads," and the many organizations and persons who have followed, this paper seeks to emphasize that the place and method of critique parallels the class line and development of the revolutionary struggle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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24. Orte des Klassenkampfs in der Tschechoslowakei als Erinnerungsorte: Die Arbeiterbewegung in Nordböhmen || Places of Class Struggle in Czechoslovakia As Realms of Remembrance: The Labour Movement in Northern Bohemia
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Čeněk Pýcha
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Heritage ,Tourism ,Socialism ,Class Struggle ,Remembrance ,Czechoslovakia ,International relations ,JZ2-6530 - Abstract
This paper discusses the tourism in places in connection with “class struggle” during the era of state socialism in Czechoslovakia. During the time of economic crisis in the 1930s, there were some incidents between gendarmerie and striking workers in the areas of high unemployment. These events were misused in the propaganda as legitimization of the Communist Party’s leading role after the 1948 revolution. These places of “class struggle” were privileged in hierarchy of heritage preservation during the communist era (1948–1989). The author focuses on sources connected with tourism (guidebooks, maps) and raises the question if historical agents and society adopted these places. The methodological remarks are an important part of the paper.
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- 2018
25. “El capitalismo no es cristiano”. La problemática económica de Sergio Méndez Arceo en sus homilías.
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Mutolo, Andrea
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RULING class , *SERMON (Literary form) , *CAPITALISM , *BISHOPS , *LIBERATION theology , *VALUE (Economics) , *DUALISM , *SOCIAL conflict , *PEASANTS - Abstract
This paper analyzes the homilies of the Bishop of Cuernavaca, Sergio Méndez Arceo, in the 1970s. The objective is to deepen the multiple messages that economic problems take up, by contextualizing these ideas, within the general framework of Liberation Theology. The main axes of the homilies focus on two positions: 1) conversion and 2) dualism. By conversion, Méndez Arceo constantly returns to the idea of “class struggle”, at the same time, from the perspective of Holy Scripture, he emphasizes the Liberation of the man. While by dualism he insists on the division between a ruling class of wealthy businessmen or landowners and a dominated class of workers and peasants, dividing society into good and bad Christians. It is worth highlighting that this article takes up a novel theme, considering that an in-depth analysis of the economic problems in the homilies has not been carried out. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
26. How does a science teacher distinguish himself as a good professional? An inquiry into the aesthetics of taste for teaching.
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Lima Junior, Paulo, Anderhag, Per, and Wickman, Per-Olof
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SCIENCE education ,TEACHING ,SOCIOLOGY ,PRAGMATICS ,PROFESSIONALISM - Abstract
This paper introduces the notion of taste for teaching a subject, especially science, as a conceptual framework to analyse the aesthetics of teacher development as a lifelong process. We draw on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and John Dewey in order to account for how teachers distinguish admirable practices and, in doing so, distinguish themselves as inspiring professionals. In order to illustrate this framework, we report a narrative inquiry on the life story of Tomas, a white man nationally prized for his science teaching. This inquiry was inspired by sociological portraits recommended by Bernard Lahire. Results indicate how a practical disposition (as opposed to a theoretical one) played an important role in developing Tomas's individual taste for science teaching, producing a strong continuity between his early experiences as a masculine boy raised in a family of construction workers, on the one hand, and his later experiences as a biologist and a science teacher enacting inquiry-based activities. The significance of the findings for science education is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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27. CLASS CONFLICT, FISCAL POLICY, AND WAGE-LED DEMAND: A MODEL OF KALECKI'S POLITICAL BUSINESS CYCLE.
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GOUZOULIS, GIORGOS and CONSTANTINE, COLLIN
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BUSINESS cycles ,SOCIAL conflict ,FISCAL policy ,PUBLIC spending ,POLITICAL doctrines - Abstract
This paper provides a demand-driven growth model of Kalecki's (1943) political business cycle. It incorporates the three fundamental assumptions that govern Kalecki's model: wage-led demand, the "reserve army of labor" effect, and capitalists' disproportionate power over fiscal policy. In our model, endogenous cycles are the outcome of capitalists' changing preferences over fiscal policy. Decreasing opposition to fiscal expansion by capitalists triggers the boom phase of the cycle, lest demand deficiency lead to a slowdown in accumulation. The downturn of the cycle is induced by capitalists' rising opposition to government spending, lest workers' growing political power at the peak of the cycle undermine their influence. This approach is unlike that taken by Goodwin and neoclassical PBC models, where a profit squeeze and the timing of elections or political ideologies determine cycles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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28. Some thoughts on CDS and its Marxist political economy bases.
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Block, David
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MARXIST philosophy ,ECONOMICS ,BRITISH politics & government ,MORTGAGES ,EVICTION - Abstract
This paper is about Marxist political economy and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) as a field of inquiry. It begins with a discussion of the traditional role of Marxist political economy in CDS, arguing that for the most part it has been limited and partial. It then considers an example of a serious attempt to carry out a Marxist political economy analysis of discourse in society - Claudia Ortu’s [2008. The denial of class struggle by British Governments in their anti-union discourse (1978-2007). Critical Discourse Studies, 5, 289-301] analysis of the denial of class struggle and anti-union discourse in Britain in the period 1978-2007. This leads to a discussion of the author's recent research on material and discursive class warfare in contemporary Spain, focussing specifically on conflicts arising between a right-wing government defending the interests of the banks and elites and a grass-roots organisation defending the interests of the popular classes, in particular those who either have lost, or are in danger of losing, their homes due to mortgage default. The paper ends with some thoughts on the future of CDS, with or without a clear Marxist political economy base. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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29. Cyber-War and Contemporary Marxism.
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Dyer-Witheford, Nick and Matviyenko, Svitlana
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This paper theorizes cyber-war from the position of twenty-first century Marxism. Drawing on and extending Étienne Balibar's (2002) seminal discussion of Marxism and war, it analyzes cyber-war in four ways; as an expression of interstate conflict, a symptom of class conflicts, a potential arena of revolutionary strategy and tactics, and as a manifestation the perennial technological revolutions of the capitalist mode of production. A globalized capitalism characterized by pervasive and accelerating digitization makes networks the site where many different types of cyber-war are waged simultaneously. Social struggles (both progressive and reactionary), military confrontation between rival blocs of global capital, and counterrevolutionary techniques of social control collide and combine in the digital. These collisions have multiplied in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, itself a result of the contradictions of an increasingly cybernetic capitalism, and a global recession which has intensified social antagonisms. Drawing on recent critical work on the ideological and psychological dimensions of advanced capitalism, we propose that the undeclared, opaque, privatized, clandestine and automated forms of social discipline and mobilization characteristic of cyber-war make it symptomatic of the "capitalist unconscious" ITomšič 2006). Virtualized warfare is a subterranean irruption of the aggressive and destructive tendencies of a world-market founded on universal competition to become a war of 'all against all'. Future Marxist revolutionaries will operate under conditions of surveillance and sous veillance, viral information and disinformation, encryption and encryption-breaking. This militarized digital environment will pose complex dilemmas about how, when or if to practice networked organization, whose speed and secrecy offer some powerful advantages, but also confound the slower processes of mundane organization and are intensely vulnerable to surveillance and cyber-crackdowns. In these conditions, anti-capitalist movements will have to make constant strategic and tactical decisions about whether to adopt cyber-war techniques, or to wage "war on war" (Nation 2009)--in this case, "cyber-war on cyber-war". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
30. Complejidades de los sindicatos argentinos en el pasado reciente: entre la alianza y la lucha de clases.
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Coscia, Vanesa
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Copyright of Revista Electrónica Gestión de las Personas y Tecnologías is the property of Revista Electronica Gestion de las Personas y Tecnologia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2018
31. Direitos humanos do capital: reflexo jurídico e comando da força de trabalho.
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Paço Cunha, Elcemir
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Copyright of Direito e Práxis is the property of Editora da Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (EdUERJ) and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 2018
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32. The Form and Content of the Greek Crisis Legislation.
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Kivotidis, Dimitrios
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DIALECTIC ,JUSTICE administration ,SOCIAL classes ,SOCIAL conflict ,NECESSITY (Law) - Abstract
This paper offers a dialectical analysis of the law relating to the Greek crisis. The form and content of the measures introduced in the Greek legal system to deal with the debt crisis is examined under the concept of ‘necessity’. It is argued that this concept, used by the Greek Council of State to justify the constitutionality of these measures, opens a path for a more comprehensive analysis of the measures implemented through the mechanism of the Greek Memoranda of Understanding. The measures are seen as ‘necessary’: on the one hand in their accordance and basis on principles of the European Union; on the other hand in their class orientation and reflecting of specific social (class) interests. But despite their necessity, neither their content, nor the form of implementation of these measures is fixed; it is rather contingent, i.e. dependent on the level of intensification of social (class and intra-class) and economic antagonisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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33. Materialism and Dialectics in David Harvey's Version of Marxism.
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Moraitis, Yiorgos
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MATERIALISM ,MARXIST philosophy - Abstract
Beginning with a critical assessment of David Harvey's perspectives on Marxism this paper examines current developments in dialectical materialism that offer alternative possibilities for class-based movements struggling to overcome neoliberal policies around the world. My objective is to show that, despite his self-declared Marxism, Harvey's version of Marxism remains tethered to the prevailing bourgeois logic of fetish-forms and fails to provide us with a sufficient description for the organization of a new form of class struggle appropriate for the 21st century. Methodologically situated within the wider context of Western Marxism, this paper juxtaposes two versions of how Marxist dialectics can be evaluated: the work of Louis Althusser, which in my view Harvey follows, and the Open Marxist path that I regard as closer to what Marx had in mind in his interpretation of social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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34. Orte des Klassenkampfs in der Tschechoslowakei als Erinnerungsorte: Die Arbeiterbewegung in Nordböhmen.
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Pýcha, čeněk
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This paper discusses the tourism in places in connection with "class struggle" during the era of state socialism in Czechoslovakia. During the time of economic crisis in the 1930s, there were some incidents between gendarmerie and striking workers in the areas of high unemployment. These events were misused in the propaganda as legitimization of the Communist Party's leading role after the 1948 revolution. These places of "class struggle" were privileged in hierarchy of heritage preservation during the communist era (1948-1989). The author focuses on sources connected with tourism (guidebooks, maps) and raises the question if historical agents and society adopted these places. The methodological remarks are an important part of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
35. Infraestructura estatal urbana en la producción de la fuerza de trabajo.
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STEIMBERG, RODRIGO
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SOCIAL conflict ,OPEN-ended questions ,WAGES - Abstract
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- 2021
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36. Content-Plurality and Political-Unity in the Debate on the Transformation Problem.
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Lopes, Tiago Camarinha
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The paper presents a guideline to discuss a collective strategy for dealing with the controversy on the transformation problem of values into prices. The main argument is that the individual search for solutions to the transformation problem creates a variety of models that weaken the Marxist field in economics if they are seen as competing, adversary proposals, with each one possessing the pretension of being the unique correct path. This individualist procedure generates misunderstandings among authors that are on the same side in the political struggle against capitalist ideology in Political Economy. Accordingly, every single individual solution that seeks to defend Marx's theory must be supported in an organized framework aiming at the union. Five steps for this organization are presented in the hope of contributing to a collective engagement with the transformation problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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37. “Value Grabbing”: A Political Ecology of Rent.
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Andreucci, Diego, García-Lamarca, Melissa, Wedekind, Jonah, and Swyngedouw, Erik
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POLITICAL ecology ,CAPITALISM ,SURPLUS value - Abstract
This paper aims to redress the under-appreciated significance of rent for political ecological analysis. We introduce the notion ofvalue grabbing, defined as the appropriation of (surplus) value through rent. A concept that is analytically distinct from accumulation, rent is both a social relation and a distributional process that is increasingly central to the reproduction of contemporary capitalism. Emphasis is placed on the “grabbing” of value in order to shed light on the processes at work by which surplus value is distributed unevenly between different classes and fractions of classes. A focus on rent within political ecology, we argue, can help us distinguish between two organically related but analytically distinct “moments”: (a) the creation of property rights that establish rent relations and (b) the struggle over the appropriation and distribution of surplus value generated by the rent relation itself. We explore some of the implications of this perspective for understanding new forms of socio-ecological struggles and their varied relations to the state. We maintain that a value-grabbing perspective has far-reaching consequences for political ecology, as it provides a sharp conceptual tool for situating a wide range of socio-ecological conflicts and movements as class struggles over value appropriation and distribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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38. O movimento literário do proletariado no Japão: uma análise de dois contos de Yoshiki Hayama.
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Sorte Junior, Waldemiro F.
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JAPANESE literature ,SOCIAL conflict ,WORKING class ,LITERATURE studies ,SEX workers - Abstract
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- 2021
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39. Marini y la economía política marxista de la dependencia. Una aproximación crítica a partir de su análisis del proceso chileno.
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Rivas Castro, Gabriel and Casique Herrera, Manuel
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WORKING class ,NATIONAL character ,MARXIST philosophy ,CLASS consciousness ,SOCIAL conflict - Abstract
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- 2021
40. A Class Against Capital: Class and Collective Bargaining in Guangdong.
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Pringle, Tim
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COLLECTIVE bargaining ,WORKING class ,MIGRANT labor ,CAPITAL ,WORK environment - Abstract
This paper argues that a class against capital emerged in Guangdong province between 2007 and 2014. I base my arguments on data drawn from significant strikes in the province and the processes of collective bargaining that partially resolved them. I observe that the formation of a working class against capital in Guangdong, made up primarily of migrant workers, has at least partially overcome fragmentary pressures it continues to face. I argue that it is the self-activity of workers themselves that is chiefly responsible for the significant improvement in wages and, to a lesser extent, working conditions that unfolded during this period. While collective bargaining remains mostly—but not exclusively—outside institutional norms, workers’ agency pushed the practical application of forms of collective bargaining on to both the political and labour relations agenda in Guangdong and beyond. Continued pressure from below will keep it there. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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41. Direito, raça e gênero: elementos para a construção de uma teoria feminista do direito adequada ao feminismo negro.
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Garcez Calil, Mário Lúcio and Markman, Debora
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- 2020
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42. Lutas e resistências quilombolas no Brasil: um debate fundamental para o Serviço Social.
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Penha Soares, Maria Raimunda
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- 2020
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43. Time, memory and history in the labour documentary film.
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Beattie, Debra
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DOCUMENTARY films ,INDUSTRIAL relations ,NEOLIBERALISM ,FILMMAKERS - Abstract
What is the capacity of documentary makers to address specific moments in industrial relations and map them through filmic representations? This paper discusses in depth a labour documentary from Tom Zubrycki, an Australian filmmaker nationally awarded in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the form. Friends and Enemies is unique in documenting union struggle as it deals with a defeat but a defeat that is constructed by the filmmaker as a moment when the class not only suffers but also learns as a class. The film moves from the individual worker engaged in an industrial relations struggle to the collective of workers co-operating to forge a combined strength. Zubrycki demonstrates a genuine respect for the emancipatory wishes of those he films. The film remains especially relevant with the increasing 'anti-Union astigmatism of mainstream media' (Coyle, R., and L. Milner. 2007. "Showing Some Fight: Kemira's Challenge to Industrial Relations." Metro Magazine 153, 178–183.). Zubrycki fosters a capacity to bring an audience to an encounter with the working class; an encounter that has, as a class, the potential for ongoing agency, for bearing testimony to the onward march of capital in the fast-changing landscape of industrial relations. Zubrycki leaves us with the emancipatory pulse still beating. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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44. O ESTUDO DO COTIDIANO ESCOLAR NA EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL: REFLEXÃO SOBRE LUTAS DE CLASSES.
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Magalhães Casado, Johny Henrique, Montalvão Paias, Katia Rodrigues, and Costa Rodrigues, Jonilce
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PROFESSIONAL education ,STUDENTS ,REQUIRED courses (Education) ,EFFECTIVE teaching ,EVERYDAY life - Abstract
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- 2019
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45. Class conflicts, defense of rights and Social Work.
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Hillesheim, Jaime
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SOCIAL services ,SOCIAL conflict ,SOCIAL & economic rights ,CRITICAL theory ,SOCIAL workers ,MARXIST analysis - Abstract
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- 2019
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46. A Historical Analysis of Trends in Pakhtun Ethno-Nationalism.
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Aman, Shahida and Jan, Muhammad Ayub
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PASHTUNS ,ETHNONATIONALISM ,MASS mobilization ,PAKISTANI politics & government - Abstract
Although, historically, the first political manifestations of Pakhtun nationalism may be traced to Bayazid Ansari's (1525-85) Roshani movement (Gregorian, 1969 :43-45; and Misdaq, 2006: 36-39) and Khushal Khan Khattak's (1513-89) rebellion against the Mughal rule, however, its ethno-nationalist roots are usually mapped out from the pre-partition mobilization of common Pakhtun masses by the Khudai Khidmatgar (servants of the God) movement of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Starting off as a social reform society, the Khudai Khidmatgars metamorphosized into first an anti-colonial nationalist movement, evolving on the eve of partition of India, into one of ethnic nationalism. The post-independence period witnessed calls for attainment of either an independent Pakhtunistan or greater autonomy for the Pakhtun regions within a federal structure of the state. The irredentist trend in Pakhtun ethno-nationalist politics manifested itself in the controversial Pakhtunistan issue that strained relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistani state's growth and rise in ethnic Pakhtun share in the civil-military bureaucracy witnessed greater integration of Pakhtuns within the polity of Pakistan and a dampening of separatist tendencies in them. Renaming of NWFP as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and extension of provincial autonomy under the 18th Amendment further boosted Pakhtun ethnic integration into the state of Pakistan. More recently, however, Pakhtun ethno-nationalist movement is believed to be assuming a distinct fervor. The rise of Taliban phenomenon in the tribal belt and settled districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been labeled as a violent manifestation of Pakhtun ethno-nationalism manifested in an Islamist garb. The paper, besides analyzing the integrationist and the separatist (irredentist) trends in Pakhtun ethno-nationalist politics, also aims at exploring the more recent phenomena of its construction around the conceptual framework of 'ethnicizing Islam' in the Pakhtun context. It argues that the current Islamist manifestation of Pakhtun ethno-politics is a product of Pakistani state's attempts at subduing the irredentist Pakhtun strain (that bothered the state throughout the 1960s and the 1970s in Pakhtunistan issue) through support to the Islamist movement inside Afghanistan, especially in later half of 1970s and in the wake of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. This paper analyzes the Pakhtun ethno-nationalist struggle, especially in the earlier decades as a form of class struggle to attain political power in the state. As such, it primarily adopts a Marxist lens to the problem of ethnic nationalism among the Pakhtuns for the beginning phase of it. Most of the analyses are historical in a sense that the paper traces the history of Pakhtun ethno nationalism in Pakistan. Moreover, the paper does not claim to be a consummate effort, rather it proposes that there are alternative explanations as plausible as this one to understand the issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
47. Class struggle in times of crisis: conceptualising agency of resistance.
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Bieler, Andreas
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SOCIAL conflict ,SOCIAL classes ,HISTORICAL materialism - Abstract
Class struggle in times of crisis: conceptualizing agency of resistance. While movements of resistance against neo-liberal globalization have increasingly become subject of analysis, there is little agreement on how to conceptualize such agency. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a conceptualization of resistance in order to understand better the possibilities of success, but also obstacles to more decisive action against global capitalism. The paper will first discuss why it is important to draw on historical materialism in this respect in order to comprehend the historical specificity of capitalism. In a second step, it is argued that divisions along ethnicity and gender can be incorporated into analyses of class struggle, before suggesting four concrete ways of how to conceptualize expanded forms of class struggle including (1) Robert Cox's focus on non-established, informal labor; (2) Harry Cleaver's emphasis on the 'social factory'; (3) Kees van der Pijl's analysis of the extension of exploitation into the sphere of social reproduction; and (4) Chandra Talpade Mohanty's grounding of analysis in the experience of the most exploited female workers in the Global South. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
48. Universidad y lucha de clases. La confluencia de obreros y estudiantes en la Córdoba reformista de 1918.
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de Guijarro, Eduardo Díaz
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HISTORY of universities & colleges ,WORKING class ,STUDENT activism ,OLIGARCHY ,MASS mobilization - Abstract
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- 2018
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49. Won with Blood: Archaeology and Labor's Struggle.
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McGuire, Randall
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SOCIAL conflict ,EMPLOYEE rights ,HISTORICAL archaeology ,LABOR unions ,HISTORY of strikes & lockouts ,STRIKES & lockouts ,COLLECTIVE memory ,CAPITALISM ,WORKING class ,HISTORY ,CAPITALISM & society ,HISTORY of labor unions - Abstract
Traditionally when Americans went to work they expected that they would earn a reasonable wage, work in a safe environment, put in a 40 h week, collect paid vacation days, earn sick leave, have the right to organize and receive health and retirement benefits. Increasingly, however, fewer and fewer workers receive these rights and today only a minority of people in the United States work under these conditions. The decline in real wages, benefits, rights and safety experienced by twenty-first century American workers has correlated with a decline in organized labor. Corporations and the right have assailed unions to erode worker's rights and 'increase competitiveness' in a globalized, neo-liberal, capitalist, world. The attacks on unions spring from a monstrous lie, that politicians and corporations gave labor these benefits and thus workers no longer need unions. On the battlefield of public policy, these assaults on organized labor work in a fundamentally ideological way that calls the continued existence of unions into question. In this paper, I will discuss how archaeological studies of labor's struggle can reveal that contrary to the monstrous lie, workers and their families won worker's rights with blood and that solidarity and organization remain essential to maintain these rights. The paper begins with the present state of labor's struggle and looks to the past to consider its preconditions. Archaeologists have studied strikes, the lived experience of working class life and class war to study history backwards and these studies contribute to the labor's struggle for the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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50. Law, Marxism and Method.
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O'Connell, Paul
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MARXIST philosophy ,CAPITALISM ,SOCIALISM ,SOCIAL change - Abstract
Law is crucial to the maintenance and reproduction of capitalism. While Marx never produced a comprehensive theory of law, state and rights, there is much in his work, and in the broader Marxist tradition, that can help us understand the nature and role of law in contemporary capitalism. This paper sketches out some of the key resources from within the Marxist tradition that can assist us in developing Marxist understandings of law, state and rights today. Specifically, the focus is on the question of method, drawing out three key strands from Marx's own work: (i) the importance of dialectical materialist analysis; (ii) the historically specific and transitory nature of capitalism and (iii) the centrality of class antagonism and class struggle. The argument advanced here, in sum, is that Marxist explanations of law, state and rights should foreground these analytical reference points, in order to make the role of law intelligible, and to begin to sketch how movements for fundamental social change might understand and engage with the law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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