By Mark Bahnisch on February 26, 2010
There’s been a bit of word play on another thread about John Quiggin‘s discussion of the coinage of the term ‘Agnatology’ to describe “the study of the manufacture of ignorance”. There are resonances between his diagnosis of the political right [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on February 6, 2009
I was having a chat with a friend over dinner last night, and we were talking about transformational politics. The missing ingredient in Kevin Rudd’s discussion of social democracy appears to be any sense that there’s some goal ahead, other [...]
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By Mark Bahnisch on January 30, 2009
In an earlier post riffing off the Katherine Wilson hoax on Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant, I made some comments about the absence of any real political force representing small l Liberalism, to the consternation of some commenters on the ensuing [...]
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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 [...]
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All politics is local, but power is global
By Kim on October 30, 2008
The Guardian’s Comment is Free website and Soundings magazine are organising a series of debates on the theme of After New Labour: Who owns the progressive future?. Some of the contributions are making it online. After excoriating the “Third Way” [...]
Posted in Activism, Feminism, International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged civil society, Comment is Free, Feminism, globalisation, international politics, left, New Labour, ngos, political sociology, power, social democracy, social movements, socialism, Sociology, Soundings, Third Way, Who owns the progressive future, Zygmunt Bauman | 21 Responses