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By Mark Bahnisch on August 8, 2011
I intend to write on Erik Olin Wright’s important book Envisioning Real Utopias, but I thought it might be useful to make it a five part series, rather than the world’s longest blog post. I’d also like to have a [...]
Posted in Featured, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Charles Fourier, Enlightenment, envisioning realistic utopias, erik olin wright, Hayek, imaginary, John Locke, Marx, Marxism, neo-liberalism, philosophy, political philosophy, political theory, Popper, social change, social democracy, Sociology, Thomas Hobbes, utopia, utopian socialism |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 21, 2011
With a revival of debates about inequality, social democrats need to start by analysing what we’re up against in current misconceptions about equality.
Posted in Philosophy, Politics | Tagged Branko Milanovic, equality, formal equality, Gillardism, Hayek, inequality, legal equality, political philosophy, social democracy, social democrats, substantive equality |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2010
It must be ‘write an op/ed for Fairfax about something a political leader said to me’ week. First, Nina Funnell, and now Michael Perusco: I was in Canberra last week and had the opportunity to ask Opposition Leader Tony Abbott [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged communitarianism, community, fairfax, George Brandis, homelessness, housing policy, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberalism, Malcolm Turnbull, mark latham, Michael Perusco, neo-liberalism, Nina Funnell, political philosophy, political theory, Sacred Heart Mission, social housing, social inclusion, Sociology, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Tony Blair |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2009
As a conclusion to his series provoked by The Australian‘s “What’s Left” op/ed fest, Guy Rundle has proposed a positive vision of the future from the left. [For my previous LP posts on this theme, see here.] I’ll post the [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Capitalism, democracy, end of history, futures, global financial crisis, globalisation, Guy Rundle, ideology, justice, left, Markets, Marxism, neo-liberalism, phenomenology, political culture, political imaginary, political philosophy, political theory, post-capitalism, sensibility, social democracy, social imaginary, socialism, Sociology, The Australian, Third Way, utopia, value, values, What's Left, Zizek |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2009
The Australian is running a series on defining the left (!), kicking off with a contribution today by Tim Soutphommasane. Soutphommasane is apparently the go to person at the moment for all things social democratic, having written a book arguing [...]
Posted in Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged agency, ALP, Amartya Sen, canon, capabilities, Culture Wars, Demos, egalitarianism, electoral politics, History, ideology, internationalism, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labourism, left, Lenin, mateship, narrative, Nationalism, New Labour, patriotism, Paul Kelly, political culture, political identity, political philosophy, political theory, Politics, Rudd government, social democracy, social inclusion, social justice, socialism without doctrines, Sociology, The Australian, Tim Soutphommasane, values, What's Left |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 7, 2009
On the first thread here about the Israeli attacks on Gaza, I was struck by this comment in an article linked by Rob: Even when development and enlightenment stare them in the face, their instinct is to destroy them pretending [...]
Posted in Blogging, Crime, Disasters, Ethics, History, Imperialism, International, Law, Middle East, Nuclear, Palestine, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism, War | Tagged Arabs, attacks, categorical imperative, Cold War, conflict resolution, Ethics, Farid Ghatry, Gaza, global sociology, Hamas, Hizbollah, humanism, humanitarian war, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, peace, peace movement, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, responsibility to protect, RTP, Sociology, UN, universalism, universals and particulars, War |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 5, 2009
This post is a sequel to my previous one on economic faith and doctrines. When reflecting further about the ideological construction of “oppressive state intervention” and some of the comments made on the thread, I kept thinking about the fact [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged economic liberalism, Economics, epistemology, faith, global financial crisis, ideologies, Leo Panitch, liberalism, mixed economy, neoliberalism, political ideologies, political philosophy, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 12, 2008
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Howardia, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, The Web | Tagged ALP, Australia Institute, Authoritarianism, Catholic right, censorship, Clive Hamilton, Guy Rundle, Indigenous policy, Jason Soon, Jenny Macklin, Julia Gillard, Kerry Miller, Labor, last superpower, liberalism, libertarianism, Lindsay Tanner, no clean feed, Noel Pearson, political philosophy, political science, political sociology, political theory, post-materialism, Religion, Rudd government, social democracy, social policy, Sociology, stephen conroy, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Warren Mundine |
By Kim on December 11, 2008
Amnesty International has released a video – You Are Powerful – to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UDHR. They’re encouraging its widest possible distribution. Kate Allen explains at Comment is Free. The level of controversy that still surrounds not [...]
Posted in Activism, History, Law, Philosophy, Sociology | Tagged Activism, Amnesty International, andrew bartlett, bill of rights, charter of rights, common law, Frank Brennan, human rights, John Howard, jurisprudence, political philosophy, Rudd government, UDHR, United Nations, universal declaration of human rights |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 29, 2008
Club Troppo’s Don Arthur and I started a correspondence by email about some of the issues I raised in my post the other day about neo-liberalism and thinktanks, and the very rapid Blairisation of the Rudd/Gillard agenda (which has certainly [...]
Posted in Education, Ethics, History, International, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, battle of ideas, Blair government, Carl Schmitt, classical liberalism, Coalition, education policy, education revolution, governmentality, historical sociology, jacques derrida, John Howard, John Locke, Julia Gillard, Karl Marx, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Margaret Thatcher, michel foucault, neoliberalism, New Labour, political ideologies, political imaginary, political philosophy, political sociology, school education, social democracy, Sociology, sociology of ideologies, state formation, Tony Blair |
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