Yigal Godler
 
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The article seeks to explain why denials of reality are tolerated and go largely unchallenged in communication research. It proposes that the acceptance of anti-realist views is related to communication theorists¡¯ general hostility toward radical political economic critiques of media institutions and coverage. Unw......

 
Serguei Alex Oushakine
 
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The introduction offers the notion of Sotzromantizm (socialist romanticism) as a way of framing critical engagements with the actually existing socialism of the 1950s¨C1980s. Large-scale historicizing projects relied on the romantic re-appropriation of space to generate versions of identity, social communities,......

 
Martijn Konings
 
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The motivating force, ethical appeal, and emotional purchase of the neoliberal image of the market have all too often eluded progressive critics. To the extent that they have recognized the affective aspects of neoliberal politics, they have tended to focus on its alliances with neoconservative philosophies and to vi......

 
Alexander Gallas
 
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Althusser and Poulantzas explored the nature of the capitalist state against the backdrop of a joint problematic, which concerned the reproduction of class domination. They established a variant of Marxism that provided the theoretical groundwork for political analysis and strategic reflection, which can be called con......

Bruce Pietrykowski
 
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Labor and community activists have organized around raising wages for low-wage workers, notably through the ¡°Fight for 15¡± campaign among fast food workers. This study uses skills data together with manager survey data to estimate occupational wages. Quantile regression was used to estimate a skills-based wa......

　　For the Scientific Socialism Forum, CASS, Beijing, November 1, 2013　　Wadi'h Halabi, 　　Economics Commission, Communist Party USA and 　　Center for Marxist Education, Massachusetts, USA　　Eight Tasks of Scientific Socialism Today　　As the general crisis of capitalism continues to unfold, the work of scientific socialism has never been more......

　　　　 The recruitment of death squads is part of a well established US military-intelligence agenda. There is a long and gruesome US history of covert funding and support of terror brigades and targeted assassinations going back to the Vietnam war. 　　 As government forces continue to confront the self-proclaimed “Free Syrian Army” (FSA), the......

 
     To develop Marxism in the 21st century is the requirement of constructing socialism with Chinese characteristics,an objective demand for its localization, modernization and popularization,a demonstration of the intrinsic characteristics of Marxism,and a significant indicator of measuring our theoretical development.The tremendous achievemen......

 
     Socialism is constantly developing and characterized by periodical features.We should recognize it from the perspective of historical materialism. It is a truth that all things develop through quantitative changes to qualitative ones.The periodical features of development could be illustrated through partial qualitative changes while fundame......

     
Yan'an period was the important historical period in which the political life became normalized within the Communist Party of China(CPC).During this period, theories of party building further matured, laws and regulations were improved and the political life within the party was gradually freed from the wrong leftist tendencies. The experien......