Ignasi Bernat, David Whyte
 
Abstract
The thousands of Spanish National Police and Guardia Civil sent to Barcelona in order to prevent the referendum legislated by the Catalan Parliament on 6 and 7 September 2017 raised major questions about the fragility of Spanish democracy. The subsequent display of police violence on 1 October and the imprisonm......

 
Cecilia Rikap, Hugo Harari-Kermadec
 
Abstract
Universities have historically contributed to the reproduction of capitalism. However, they have been historically conceived as a separate sphere or institution detached from the Market, thus only indirect participants of capital¡¯s accumulation processes. Our aim in this article is precisely ......

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Rachel Wood, Benjamin Litherland & Elizabeth Reed
 
ABSTRACT
This paper argues that consumers of popular culture engage in practices of “ethical cultural consumption”, whereby the consumption of cultural texts is imagined as having the potential to “do good” both individually and socio-politically. The paper explores data from an online que......

 
    2019 is the 70th anniversary of the founding of the PRC. The evolution of scientific socialism in the new China of the past seventy years is as follows: the socialist planned economic system laid a foundation for the emergence of the new China in the international system; the internal reform and opening-up to the outside world effectively sol......

Ray Silvius
 
Abstract
This article puzzles out the relationships between displaced peoples, their families, resettlement, the household, employment, and social reproduction ¨C the often voluntary, feminized, and un- or under-compensated labour that reproduces a family, household, or labour force. Transnational refugee households and the condition......

Enfu Chenga and Zhihua Zhanb
 
aSchool of Marxism, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China; bSchool of Marxism, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China
 
ABSTRACT
This paper explores the issue of historical figures (influential people, mainly leaders who stand out in history) “making history.” Accordingly, it proposes and demon......

Nicholas Kiersey &William Sokoloff
The question of tactics in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism was the theme of the February 24–26, 2019, Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) conference held at South Padre Island, Texas.1 The conference site itself, located just miles away from the United States (US) and Mexico border in the Rio Grande ......

 
Jack Rasmus
 
ABSTRACT
Throughout the twentieth century, American capitalism has proved strategically flexible and successful at periodically restructuring itself to take advantage of global opportunities that arose due to world wars, economic crises, and technological change and innovation. On three major occasions in the twentieth century, the ......

 
James Petras & Henry Veltmeyer
 
ABSTRACT
With the onset of the so-called ¡°global financial crisis¡± in 2008 the world capitalist system suffered a shock that shook its very foundations, threatening the functioning of key financial institutions and the economies at the center of the system. However, the crisis merely served to restructur......

 
Daniel Bin
 
ABSTRACT
The dawn of capitalism was marked by what Marx referred to as primitive accumulation. Nevertheless, similar processes of dispossession of the means of subsistence and production continue until today. Capitalism cannot be sustained if additional means of production and growing availability of labor-power are not integrated i......