marxism
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Pragmatism and repressive politics
TURKEY: This autumn, we met two intellectuals in Istanbul about today's Turkey - and attended a major conference there on political economy. Here, we look at the use of power, freedom of expression, the media, militarisation and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's political pragmatism.
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The reality of capitalism and beyond
NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one - it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the 'end of history' nothing more than a class project?
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The ecological class
ENVIRONMENT: The productivity of nature as such must include other species, ecosystems, soils, the atmosphere and the ocean.
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The art of disappearing
PHILOSOPHY: Our editor Truls Lie has interviewed Jean Baudrillard earlier in Oslo – and since a lot have asked for access, we have republished it and a video here.
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Four measures against the use-and-throw culture
CONSUMPTION: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need.
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Meaningless events with a lot of meaning
CINEMA: Long lost documentary from Morocco found and restored, with a radical message that is highly relevant many years later
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A Communist Manifesto
Is Karl Marx still able to show us the way forward - some 168 years after his book was initially published?


