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Kevin Anderson

Resistance versus Emancipation: Foucault, Marcuse, Marx, and the Present Moment

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I. The Changed World of 2011-12 We live in a far different world than just a few short years ago. Not only have we suffered the greatest economic downturn since the 1930s, but we have also witnessed the emergence of new forms of mass struggle.  Foremost among these have been the 2011-12 Arab revolutions, still…

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Four Years After the Arab Revolutions: Fighting on Amid Reactionary Retrenchment

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The Present Moment Over the past year, the outlook for revolutionary change for democracy and social justice in much of the Middle East and North Africa has become bleak.  Egypt has experienced authoritarian military rule at a level that exceeds the repression of Mubarak, thus rolling back the 2011 revolution, even as the US has…

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