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| | americanaffairsjournal.org
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| | The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci coined the term"organic crisis"to describe a crisis that differsfrom"ordinary"financial, economic,or political crises.An organic crisisis a"comprehensive crisis,"encompassing the totality of a system or order that, for whatever reason, is no longer able to generate societal consensus (in material or ideological terms).Such a crisis laysbare fundamental contradictions in the system that the...
| | dissidentvoice.org
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| | As an intended outcome of neoliberal doctrine and a natural stage of capitalist development, global financialization constructs a borderless nexus of power in which debt and austerity fuels a cultural, political and economic landscape bound to enduring structures of domination, and creates unprecedented wealth through the accumulation of suffering. ***** According to economist Richard Wolff,
| | brexitblog-rosalux.eu
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| | by Thomas Fazi The tensions and contradictions within the European project, from Brexit and the Pasokification of social democracy to the rise of the right and the rollback of social Europe present very serious challenges to building left power across Europe. In this week's guest post, journalist and filmmaker Thomas Fazi turns our attention towards the recent budget standoff between the Italian government and the European Commission. He argues that this example serves to highlight the arbitrary and unde...
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| The latest arrests of journalists in Turkey aremore bad news for its democracy in general and its declining press freedom in particular.Readers of this blog will be familiar with my noting how most measures of freedom of expression in Turkey have recededgoing back quite a while, overwhelmingly a result of governmentcrackdowns, fines, arrests, and threats....