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Situations: Project of the Radical Imagination
Situations intends to address the current malaise of the radical imagination in both left theory and in popular consciousness. We aim to explore the social conditions and lived experiences that lead to this malaise and to support explanations which do not reduce political phenomena to a reflection. Situations will foster modes of thinking that recognize the creative role that society plays in its own production. In opposition to simple determinisms, Situations will attempt to show the contingencies and peculiarities of political phenomena.
Stumbling and Mumbling: Being on the left
This optimism about human nature, however, seems to coexist with a pessimism about the scope for institutional change....This “human nature-optimism, institution-pessimism” is, if anything (and to simplify), the mirror image of my view.
OpenLeft
"Open Left is a project aimed at renewing the thinking and ideas of the political Left. We seek an open conversation across the Left about the kind of society we want and how we can best bring it about." - by Demos in London.
infinite thØught: power to the people?
Power to the People? Conference notes, Birkbeck College, 9th May 2009
Liberal Conspiracy » Markets can also serve the poorest | creating a new liberal-left alliance
Stumbling and Mumbling: Shrink the state: a leftist aim
left should join American tea parties, which protest against high taxes. I think I agree. The desire to shrink the state should be a leftist aim. I say so for four reasons.
Stumbling and Mumbling: Miles from Marx
critical of G20 protests...they “served a therapeutic rather than a political function.” ... they were irrelevant to ordinary people.
I agree. What they showed for me, though, is just how very far we are from any Marxist notion of revolution
Dissent Magazine - Unheralded Battle: Capitalism, the Left, Social Democracy, and Democratic Socialism
by Sheri Berman
Hullabaloo - Trading Eights With Digby
On the main point, I totally agree. We really need to hear leftwing voices in the mainstream media. Where we may disagree is, to some extent, on a labeling or definition refinement... liberals are not leftists.
The Valve - A Literary Organ | Do You Believe In Magic? Literary Thinking and the New Left
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