Leo Panitch, Gregory Albo
 
Abstract
 
We have conceived this 54th volume of the Socialist Register on Rethinking Democracy as a companion volume to the 2017 volume on Rethinking Revolution. As we put it in the preface to that volume: ‘The “political event” of gaining state power, whether by taking parliament or in a collapse of the existing ......

 
Leo Panitch
 
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It is impossible to read Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks without appreciating how far he actually transcended the dichotomy between pessimism of the intellect and optimism of the will. He did so precisely by applying his stunningly creative intelligence to what really would need to be involved in the creation of a new type o......

 
Walter Benn Michaels
 
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Talking about the political ‘Uses of Photography,’ John Berger says ‘most photographs … are about suffering, and most of that suffering is man-made’. The political potential not only of photography but of art more generally depends, Susan Sontag thinks, on its ‘responsiveness to suffering’. Here the dange......

 
A W Zurbrugg
 
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Lenin’s State and Revolution was one of the most famous texts of the twentieth century. Written in 1917 before the October revolution and published shortly after, it looked forward to a new polity, one that should be fully democratic, with a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ creating ‘democracy for the people’. His......

 
August H. Nimtz
 
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Engels began his brief remarks at Marx’s funeral in 1883 by describing his life-long political companion’s ‘scientific’ accomplishments. ‘But he looked upon science above all things as a grand historical lever, as a revolutionary power in the most eminent sense of the word … For he was indeed, what he called hi......

 
A. J. Horn
 
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The essay seeks to outline Hegel’s nomological account as it is expressed in the relation between force and law. Central to this view is that, in order for the law to express itself, there has to be a doubling of both the force and form; that double form or polarity is manifested as a posited and resolved contradictory rel......

 
Thomas Klikauer
 
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Examining moral behaviour in business may be as old as business. Discussing the morality of business is one of the tasks of business ethics linking it to business and to moral philosophy. However, from the standpoint of moral philosophy, the idea of business ethics appears rather unusual. To many, business ethics might......

 
Savas Michael-Matsas
 
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The French working class has declared 15 September as day of action against the hated anti-Labour Law imposed by decree of the Valls–Hollande social-liberal regime. It is a continuation of the epic struggle of March–June 2016 that shook France and all of Europe. Although it is too early to make predictions about......

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2018年是马克思诞辰200周年，《共产党宣言》发表170周年。现定于2018年3月24-25日（双休日）于山东威海举办“纪念马克思诞辰200周年暨马克思主义与文化创新研讨会”。诚邀全国有志趣者共同探讨。
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