{"title":"Spain: The State, the Regime Crisis and the National Question","authors":"Josep Maria Antentas","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2021.1893138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2021.1893138","url":null,"abstract":"The crisis of October 2017, following the referendum (which was not authorised by the State) on the independence of Catalonia on 1 October and the repression by the State to prevent it, marked the climax of an institutional crisis that has been running since the outbreak of the Catalan independence movement in September 2012. In turn, it was the culminating, although contradictory, moment of a regime crisis that started with the outbreak of the 15M movement, the indignado rebellion, in 2011. In this article I will analyse the historical roots of the 2017 crisis and the political and institutional consequences that the events of October 2017 have had. My objective is to analyse the current regime crisis in the Spanish state from the point of view of the role played by the Catalan national question. I am not going to analyse the overall regime crisis or the independence movement, but specifically how the latter has been related with the former. To do so, I will provide a general overview of the genesis of the so-called Regime of 1978 from the point of view of the national question and of Spain’s failed nation-building process.","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"6 1","pages":"51 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83734718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Party, the Comrade and Communist Renewal in the 21st Century – An Interview with Jodi Dean","authors":"J. Dean, M. Callahan","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2020.1820307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1820307","url":null,"abstract":"Amidst deepening crisis and growing unrest, questions of organization and strategy are more urgent than ever. With a young generation casting off decades of anti-communist brainwashing and embracin...","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"359 1","pages":"223 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74149830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on U.S. Politics","authors":"M. Schultz","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2021.1889884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2021.1889884","url":null,"abstract":"Victor Wallis’s Democracy Denied is an occasional work in that the five lectures which compose it were originally written for actually existing audiences and scheduled events: a series of talks giv...","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"7 1","pages":"275 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79955318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to Go On: Political Epistemology for Pandemy Times","authors":"D. Suvin","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2020.1821338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1821338","url":null,"abstract":"* My warmest thanks go to the repeated help by encouragement, discussion, and correction, first of all to Jodi Dean, Tom Moylan, Stuart Blume, and Victor Wallis, but also Hugh O’Connell, Mladen Lazić, Doug Lummis, Trish MacManus, Jelena Vesić and her mother, the WHW-group women comrades represented by Nataša Ilić, Toby Widdicombe. Though all responsibility for formulations here is mine, without them, and the patience of Nena, this essay might well have been impossible.The bulk of the article was written during the March-to-May lockdown in Italy, using what was available. It may suggest the richness of ongoing debates but insufficiently counteracts the categorial confusions of those pressured months. Socialism and Democracy, 2020 Vol. 34, Nos. 2–3, 181–211, https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1821338","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"8 1","pages":"181 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78454252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dinesh D’Souza as a Comprador Intellectual: Punditry, Media and Neocolonialism","authors":"G. Andrade","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2020.1828700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1828700","url":null,"abstract":"The neo-conservative movement in the United States has strong intellectual origins. Many of its founding members were radicals – heavily influenced by Leon Trotsky – who eventually became disillusioned with the New Left and the Counterculture movement (Stintson 2010). Thus, a growing number of college professors and other scholars eventually gathered into a group that began in the 1970s to lobby Republican governments. Neoconservatives shifted to the right, but they never moved away from Trotsky’s internationalism. Thus, they began to embrace a neocolonial perspective in their intellectual struggle against Soviet Communism. They enthusiastically supported American military interventions abroad. Their influence grew significantly under Ronald Reagan. One of the younger members of the neoconservative movement, Dinesh D’Souza, was fascinated by Reagan’s political style. D’Souza would go on to develop an academic career, and in his writings andmedia appearances, has consistently praised Reagan’s legacy (D’Souza 1999). Neoconservatives, in turn, also began to mold their movement with many of Reagan’s principles, most notably unregulated capitalism. By the 2000s, the neoconservatives in American policy were hegemonic in the White House, and George W. Bush’s administration employed many of its representatives as advisors and executives. It is fairly certain that the neoconservatives’ intellectual influence was a significant driving force in the American invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq (Vaisse 2010). The Republican candidate John McCain lost the election in 2008, and neoconservatives naturally did not have the same influence as Socialism and Democracy, 2020 Vol. 34, Nos. 2–3, 61–83, https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1828700","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"1 1","pages":"61 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88174548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marx’s Capital After 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism","authors":"Eren Kozluca","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2021.1876547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2021.1876547","url":null,"abstract":"Marx’s Capital After 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism contains the proceedings of an international conference held at York University in 2017. It is the latest addition to the series of compilations that encompass the theoretical and political nature, stakes and implications of Karl Marx’s major work. With 17 contributors of diverse political affiliations, theoretical standpoints, and immediate concerns within the contested terrain of Marxism andMarxian scholarship, the relatively peaceful coexistence of these interventions, at the very least, confirms that the breakthroughs realized in the last few decades in the study of Capital proved to be lasting. In other words, we now have a qualitatively new, shared understanding regarding Capital that both distances it from the presuppositions of classical political economy and opposes the interpretative (and editorial) ambitions to present its theorems and conclusions as closed totalities. Cautiously discerning the multiplicity of layers of Capital, an on-going task that is irreducible to the standard notion of interdisciplinary compartmentalization and dialogue, shall serve to mobilize it as an indispensable tool for any kind of initiative to critically recast the social sciences.","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"253 1","pages":"325 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79613966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insubordinate Spaces: Improvisation and Accompaniment for Social Justice","authors":"Sarah Hernandez","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2020.1889905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1889905","url":null,"abstract":"There is a growing effort among scholars to overcome Euro- and US-centric theoretical outlooks, by engaging with epistemologies of the South. Tomlinson’s and Lipsitz’s book is an excellent illustra...","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"33 1","pages":"296 - 300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85967454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Such A Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride","authors":"Kathy McMahon-Klosterman","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2020.1822108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1822108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"5 1","pages":"284 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83724924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19","authors":"A. Ainsworth","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2020.1888187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1888187","url":null,"abstract":"Rob Wallace begins his latest book with a confession: Late March this year [2020], I’m lying on my bed gasping for breath. … A half hour into the evening’s panting – and nothing so pleasurable as t...","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"18 1","pages":"350 - 353"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83041911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proposal for Social Transformation","authors":"M. Callahan","doi":"10.1080/08854300.2020.1852752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08854300.2020.1852752","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40061,"journal":{"name":"Socialism and Democracy","volume":"2 1","pages":"178 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86755531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}