Isaac Christiansen
 
ABSTRACT
This study creates a nested typology of non-OECD countries to understand the nature of the challenges facing them. Due largely to problems of insufficient data, previous studies have focused on wealthier nations’ political, developmental and health indicators. Developing nations are classified using cluster analysis......

 
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 restructure the sy......

 
Spyros Sakellaropoulos
 
ABSTRACT
The aim of this article is to present and criticize Althusser’s and Poulantzas’s key positions on the State and its mechanisms. To begin with there is a discussion on the notion that the State is an aggregation of ideological and repressive apparatuses and on the position according to which the State is an inst......

 
Darren J. O’Byrne
 
ABSTRACT
For many, the “Trump phenomenon” represents an authoritarian phase of the neoliberal project. For others, it is a manifestation of a broader populist project that is the antithesis of, and arises in part as a reaction against, neoliberalism. Across Europe, political parties hitherto identified with the Far Right a......

 
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 ......

 
Stefano G. Azzarà
 
ABSTRACT
Domenico Losurdo was convinced of the intrinsically political nature of philosophy: political judgment is the test that verifies or falsifies even the most complex metaphysics, which have no meaning if they are not related to the real world. Losurdo often had to defend himself against the accusation of political part......

 
Erika Carter Grosso
 
ABSTRACT
In what ways do Cubans capitalize on inequalities created by globalization in order to advance socially and economically within a socialist system? What roles do migration and social reproduction play in the daily lives of Cubans at home and abroad, and how do these strategies advance the cause of the global capita......

 
Xuangong Wu
 
ABSTRACT
China has made brilliant achievements in the past 40 years, but at the same time there are also many thought-provoking questions emerged in China, which reveals to us that we should define clearly the correct direction of the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We must persistently take the realization, safeguar......

 
Roland Boer
 
ABSTRACT
For Marx, what happens to the state under socialism in power, after a communist revolution? This study requires a strict self-discipline: to avoid reading later positions back into Marx’s own positions. The material is organised in sections. The first concerns Marx’s observations on hitherto existing forms of the state, e......

 
Franklin Obeng-Odoom
 
ABSTRACT
What are the causes of the current transnational migration “crisis”? What about the causes of the 2008 global economic crisis? Are these crises separate or interlinked? Previous research has pointed to civil war in refugee-sending countries and problematic financial practices in the United States as causal mechan......