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Rafael Khachaturian

Symbols of Failure? Radical Democracy between Past and Future

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Review of Warren Breckman, Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-Marxism and Radical Democracy by Warren Breckman. Columbia University Press, 2013. 376p. Twenty-five years ago the revolutions of 1989 transformed the political landscape of the Cold War world. Crises were nothing new in the history of Marxism—the dates 1914, 1933, 1956, and 1968 all come to mind—each prompting…

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On Thinking With and Against the State

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  “The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”[1]   For a long time, that concise declaration by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto formed the basis for how many radicals and revolutionaries thought about the nature of political power and the state.…

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