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What Is at Stake in Palestine: Radical New Stage in Ruling Class Modalities of Control
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Published: May 24, 2024 16:23
The following is the English version of an interview that the Turkish online newspaper Artı GerƧek, conducted with William I. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. ArtıĀ GerƧek: As you know, theā¦
Conversations with Rafael Bielsa
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Published: May 24, 2024 16:21
Born in 1953 in Rosario, Argentina, into a family of eminent jurists, Rafael Bielsa developed a sensitivity to the plight of the underprivileged from an early age, thanks in particular to reading and religion. A practicing Catholic, he took a stand againstā¦
Non-Alignment Today
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Published: May 16, 2024 15:15
The original non-alignment movement occured in 1961 following the Bandung Conference (Indonesia) held in 1955, which was attended by 29 countries, almost all of which had recently been liberated from European colonialism. They accounted for 54% of theā¦
Donāt Talk To Me About Solutions
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Published: April 22, 2024 16:52
Itās 2024 and Iām suspicious of āsolutionsā. Solutions to what, exactly? The excess greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that have already seen us breach the 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement? The ocean acidification thatās bleaching corals enā¦
Social Relations as Symbolic Violence
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Published: April 13, 2024 15:25
Power Relations Inscribed in NarrativesĀ Among the concepts the French sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu, developed is symbolic violence. It is an extension of the term āviolenceā to include various modes of social/cultural domination. Symbolic violence is theā¦
Bella Ciao, Bella Ciaoā¦ Hope Comes from the Young for a World-Weary Socialist
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Published: April 12, 2024 17:10
An Invitation and aĀ Conundrum! When the announcement and the invitation reached my inbox, I read it in a state of contained excitement. The Academy of Democratic Modernity (ADM) had invited me (and others like me from all over the world) for a conferenceā¦
Donāt Fear āCollectivismā
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Published: April 9, 2024 16:35
The capacity of the reactionary mind to invent catchall signifiers of supposed left-wing depravity oftenĀ seems limitless. But in the canon of conservative epithets, there is probably none more common or enduring than ācollectivism.ā Spend any timeā¦
The Society of Conformism
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Published: March 29, 2024 15:55
The last hundred years have been years of intense conflict that have resulted in countless wars, in addition to the two world wars. The classes and social groups that intervened in these conflicts did so in the name of objectives so broad that they did notā¦
W.E.B. Du Boisā Study āThe Philadelphia Negroā at 125 Still Explains Roots of the Urban Black Experience
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Published: March 4, 2024 14:29
W.E.B. Du Bois is widely known for his civil rights activism, but manyĀ sociologists argueĀ that he has yet to receive due recognition as the founding father ofĀ American sociology. His groundbreaking study, āThe Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study,ā wasā¦
What Is Left? Rebecca Solnit on the Perennial Divisions of the American Left
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Published: March 2, 2024 15:29
In late 1936 George Orwell, like so many young idealists from Europe and the USA, went off to fight fascism in Spain. By the spring of 1937 he realized he was in a war with not two but three sides. The USSR was holding back a full Spanish revolution whileā¦