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Archive of Stathis Kouvelakis

    Stathis Kouvelakis
    24 August 2021
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    Against populist reason: Ernesto Laclau’s blind alleys

    "Populism," as a political concept, gained mainstream traction over the 2010s as the neoliberal consensus broke down internationally. But what is populist theory and what is its relationship to the twentieth-century Marxist thought from which it developed? In this piece, Stathis Kouvélakis offers a critical examination of the political logic of Ernesto Laclau’s theory of populism.

    Stathis Kouvelakis
    03 April 2021
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    On the Paris Commune: Part 3

    The third installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week.

    Stathis Kouvelakis
    31 March 2021
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    On the Paris Commune: Part 2

    The second installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week.

    Stathis Kouvelakis
    29 March 2021
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    On the Paris Commune: Part 1

    The first installment of a new text by Stathis Kouvelakis on the development, events and legacy of the Paris Commune, published in three parts across the week. 

    29 November 2020
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    Wars and Terrorism: End the Denial

    This open letter, signed among others by Virginie Despentes, Adèle Haenel, Annie Ernaux, Jean-François Bayart and Alexis Jenni, deplores the fact that the link between Western military interventions and terrorist attacks is never questioned.

    Costas LapavitsasStathis Kouvelakis
    11 July 2019
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    The Radical Left: The Time for its Re-founding

    After 4 years in power, SYRIZA were defeated in both recent elections, finishing behind the conservative New Democracy party in each. In this article written in the wake of the European election but before the results were announced of the legislative election, two leading members of the Greek left Costas Lapavitsas and Stathis Kouvelakis reflect on the reasons for SYRIZA's defeat and what it would take for the radical left to once more win power.

    Stathis Kouvelakis
    18 March 2018
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    Between the Scylla of "Pasokification" and the Charybdis of "Syrizification"

    Pasokification isn’t the only neologism to come out of the Greek experience of the recent years. What followed Pasokification was Syrizification, and this process proved at least equally devastating in terms of its consequences.

    26 November 2017
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    Against media lynch mobs and the slurs against anti-racists

    An open letter signed by scholars, activists, journalists, and artists in France against a witchhunt targeting political anti-racists. 

    Verso Books
    28 June 2017
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    Toward Emancipation, Against Character Assassination: In support of Houria Bouteldja and political anti-racism

    Attacks against Houria Bouteldja are aimed against political anti-racism as a whole, which is to say any attempt to organise and fight to put an end to oppression.

    Feyzi Ismail
    10 May 2017
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    Building a Political Alternative: Stathis Kouvelakis on the French Presidential Election

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