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Archive of What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

    Verso Books
    11 May 2020
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    A Guide to our Radical Thinkers!

    Challenge yourself with new discoveries in our Radical Thinkers series.

    Etienne Balibar
    19 May 2017
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    Lenin's Three Theoretical Arguments About the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

    It is the contradictions of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as it was beginning to develop in Russia, that form the object of Lenin's analysis and of his arguments. If you forget this fact, you can easily fall into dogmatism and formalism: Leninism can be represented as a finished theory, a closed system — which it has been, for too long, by Communist parties. But if on the other hand you remain content with a superficial view of these contradictions and of their historical causes, if you remain content with the simplistic and false idea according to which you have to "choose" between the standpoint of theory and that of history, real life and practice, if you interpret Lenin's arguments simply as a reflection of ever changing circumstances, less applicable the further away they are in history, then the real causes of these historical contradictions become unintelligible, and our own relation to them becomes invisible. You fall into the domain of subjective fantasy

    Alain Badiou
    28 April 2017
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    Let’s lose interest in elections, once and for all!

    Witold Kula
    08 April 2017
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    "Economic System" and "Theory of an Economic System"

    Éric Aeschimann
    20 March 2017
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    Representation Against Democracy: Jacques Rancière on the French Presidential Elections

    Florence Stencel-Wade
    21 January 2016
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    Lenin remembered!: A reading list

    Lewis Bassett
    22 February 2013
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    New Left Review - issue 79 out now

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