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• Lenin (revolutionary)
  ...xists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/index.htm], which called for a new form of government based on workers' councils, or [[soviet (council)|soviet ...illiterate]] Russian people to read and write. But first and foremost, the new Bolshevik government needed to take Russia out of the [[World War I|World W
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• Samuel P. Huntington
  ...ich challenged the conventional view of [[modernization]] theorists that [[economic]] and [[social]] [[progress]] would bring [[about]] [[stable]] democracies ...ization within a [[society]]. Huntington is concerned that, as a result of economic [[development]], political mobilization will increase faster than the appro
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• Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Essay)
  ...d at delivering the [[thing]] itself, at directly realizing the longer-for New [[Order]]. The ultimate and defining [[experience]] of the XXth century was ...LL REMAIN, the [[sublime]] "indivisible [[remainder]]," the paragon of the New. It is in order to conceal the fact that there is nothing beyond that, in a
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• Human Rights and Its Discontents
  ...oday such an attitude is artificially resuscitated in the [[multitude]] of New Age approaches to nature, society, and so on and so on. So that's the stand ...gars, prostitutes — as the privileged members of his new community. This new community is then explicitly constructed as a collective of outcasts, the a
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• Seize the Day: Lenin's Legacy
  ...' — the radical imperative to smash the bourgeois [[state]] and invent a new communal social [[form]] without a standing [[army]], police force or [[bur ...e [[dismantling]] of existing state apparatuses and their replacement with new commune-like forms of social management. This is the gap between revolution
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• The Iraq War: Where is The True Danger
  ...ves; (3) even if successful, the attack on Iraq will give a big boost to a new wave of the anti-American [[terrorism]]; (4) Saddam is a murderer and tortu ...as we do." The old story will repeat itself: America brings to the people new hope and democracy, but, instead of hailing the US [[army]], the ungrateful
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• Too Much Democracy?
  ...ndermining family, property, etc.: it is the capitalist order itself whose economic dynamics is destroying the traditional family order (incidentally, a fact m ...ies are "prematurely democratized," the result is a populism which ends in economic catastrophe and political despotism - no wonder that today's economically m
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• Biopolitics: Between Terri Schiavo and Guantanamo
  ...ve others, "fundamentalists," do their believing for us), does the rise of new religious fundamentalisms in our own societies not signal how the same dist ...[terror]]" follow a secret program known as "extraordinary rendition": the policy of seizing suspicious individuals without even the [[semblance]] of due [[p
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• The Iraqi MacGuffin
  ...is a [[universal]] sigh of relief, even among many present critics of U.S. policy. One is therefore tempted to consider the hypothesis that, prior to the out ...US as a new Roman Empire. The problem with today's US is not that it is a new global Empire, but that it is NOT, i.e., that, while pretending to be, it c
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• Iraq's False Promises
  ...rnational [[community]] at stake, raising fundamental questions about the "new world [[order]]" and what rules will regulate it. ...ing Iraq as a pretext or exemplary case to establish the parameters of the new world order, to assert the [[right]] of the United States to launch prevent
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• How Much Democracy Is Too Much?
  ...prematurely democratized,” the result is a [[populism]] which ends in [[economic]] catastrophe and political despotism. ...is ultimately the front whose backside is the silent, sturdy weaving of economic, corporatist [[logic]].
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• The Liberal Waterloo
  ...mentalist]] [[populism]] will roll on, as [[Bush]] pursues his agenda with new gusto, nominating [[conservative]] judges to the [[Supreme Court]], invadin ...two times in order for [[liberals]] to perceive that we are all entering a new era.
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• Hooray for Bush!
  ...win twice in [[order]] for [[liberals]] to perceive that we are entering a new era. ...ative to Bush's. Besides, Bush's victory is paradoxically better for the [[economic]] prospects of both [[Europe]] and [[Latin]] America: in order to win the s
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• The Iraqui MacGuffin
  ...is a [[universal]] sigh of relief, even among many present critics of U.S. policy. One is therefore tempted to consider the hypothesis that, prior to the out ...US as a new Roman Empire. The problem with today's US is not that it is a new global Empire, but that it is NOT, i.e., that, while pretending to be, it c
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• Why We All Love to Hate Heider
  ...nished proletariat. While multicultural tolerance becomes the motto of the new and privileged 'symbolic' classes, the far Right seeks to address and to mo ...on and Blair declare to be the key tenet of the modern Left, that sustains economic growth, that allows us to improve social security, education and health. In
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• Slavoj Zizek: Risking the Impossible
  ...- that human beings are essentially open to the possibility of developing new forms of subjectivation. In this way, the subject is both the transcendenta ...Miller, the concept of the Real has been at the center of the Paris-based "new school of psychoanalysis" in which Zizek has played a key role.<br><br>
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• Linguistics and Language
  ...inctions; on the [[other]] hand, speakers could invest a new [[form]] with new [[significance]], exploiting the expressive possibilities of the altered or ...em as subcodes in [[dialectical]] tension. Poetic discourse, language made new or "defamiliarized" in the well-known Formalist formulation, now arises fro
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• Talk:Louis Althusser
  ...eoretician of ideology. In <i>Reading "Capital"</i> (1979) he introduced a new reading of Marx, a "symptomal" reading, which, through a constructed discou ...of guarantees whose origins can be traced back to Spinoza, but gave them a new interpretation. He also made use of psychoanalytic ideas: the question of i
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• Talk:Jürgen Habermas
  ...at the [[University of Marburg]] under [[Wolfgang Abendroth]], one of the new Marxist professors in Germany at the time. In [[1961]], he became a ''[[pri ...984) he criticized the one-sided process of modernization led by forces of economic and administrative rationalization. Habermas traced the growing interventio
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• Talk:Fascism and Stalinism
  ...retain and enhance economic productivity. It strove to direct exceptional economic production and growth without the constraints of the capitalist form. ...nservativism and religious fundamentalism. The grip of neoliberal economic policy and its rhetorical alliance with classic liberal appeals to freedom has mea
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