There may be a different route that points beyond capitalism: transcending capitalism by building emancipatory alternatives to capitalism in the spaces and cracks within capitalist economies and struggling to defend and expand those spaces.
A democratic, libertarian, socialist future is the only future that he would be willing to fight for. A most peculiar Marxist no doubt, but a Marxist nevertheless.
This talk examines the causes that led to the current socio-economic and political crisis and the types, strategies and forms of resistance that have emerged in the last three years, using Greece as an example.
In this lecture I will discuss a widespread interpretation of the protest movements that we have witnessed since 2011 in several countries.
In the years to come there is a real threat of the extreme right taking power in France. This situation is largely caused by a retreat of political thinkers faced with this ‘conservative revolution'.
As feminism has been institutionalized and subsumed to the neo-liberal agenda in the name of democratization, a feminist critique of liberal democracy is more urgent than ever.
In his lecture, Lazzarato will explore this thesis further by asking if the current crisis of debt is in fact a crisis of Capital?
The underlying paradox is that what makes love angelic, what elevates it over mere unstable and pathetic sentimentality, is its cruelty itself, its link with violence.
Bolivian politician and scholar who has been Vice President of Bolivia since 2006. As a major ideologue of the ruling MAS party, García Linera has helped develop a political platform and the Bolivian political system.