31.8.11
30.8.11
To the Finland Station: The undoing of the Menshevik Approach to the Euro Crisis
When Lenin alighted on 3rd April 1917 at Petrograd’s Finland Station, a train was set in motion that upstaged, and eventually overturned, the Mensheviks’ plan for an ‘evolutionary’ path from absolute Tsarism to some form of social democracy. Ironically, it took a Finnish social democrat (newly elected finance minister Jutta Urpilainen) to derail once and for all the eurozone’s ‘Menshevik Plan’ for a gradual adaptation to the new realities that the Crisis is spewing out. In what follows I shall lay bare what I term, cheekily, the ‘Menshevik Approach to the Euro Crisis’, its reliance on the Principle of Perfectly Separable Debts (of PSDs), and explain how this Principle turns into an impossibility the dream of turning the EFSF into a European Debt Agency (issuing jointly and mutually guaranteed eurobonds). Lastly, I shall address why the shoddy and unworkable Finnish-Greek side-deal has put paid to this dangerous illusion.
The Menshevik Approach to the Euro Crisis
The original Mensheviks’ mantra was gradualism. Similarly, during our current Euro Crisis, the EU’s ruling elites have been hinting at a gradualist slide into a quite different Europe. They often tell us, in defence of their penchant for stuttering on-the-huff decision making, that this is how Europe progresses: Slowly, it creates new institutions, frequently with the wrong remit, which sooner or later fall into place within Europe’s grand design.Continue Reading »
Levelling Out
Beyond existing arguments about equality, might the praxes of permanent and passive revolution offer a way to conceptualize a more expansionary levelling? Drawing on motifs from Nietzsche, Babeuf, Marx and Gramsci, Malcolm Bull traces the contours and consequences of extra-egalitarianism.
GOVERNO RETOMA AS VELHAS CATEGORIAS COLONIAIS:PORTUGUESES DE PRIMEIRA E DE SEGUNDA
29.8.11
As a global protest movement rises and spreads within the US, expect surveillance tactics honed in the "war on terror" to be used in the defense of wealth. READ MORE
The Stone: The Meaning of Utopia
The modern world began — and ended — with visions of an ideal state.
28.8.11
Erotic Capital
27.8.11
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24.8.11
23.8.11
E' solo l'inizio
Il futuro della Libia è un'incognita assoluta. Per ora si possono dire solo due cose. La prima, la «primavera araba» finisce in Libia, almeno per ora. La seconda, la vittoria degli insorti e la «liberazione» di Tripoli puzzano fin troppo di quell'altra impresa di liberazione che fu l'avventura neo-coloniale di Francia e Inghilterra nel '56 contro l'Egitto di Nasser.
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22.8.11
21.8.11
A CRISE DE DEUS
Acordar perante a crise
Quando Benedicto XVI fala aos jovens de la JMJ [Jornada Mundial de la Juventude] do “eclipse de Deus”, provavelmente está a pensar no eclipse das igrejas.
Quando Benedicto XVI fala aos jovens de la JMJ [Jornada Mundial de la Juventude] do “eclipse de Deus”, provavelmente está a pensar no eclipse das igrejas.
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