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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 [...]
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 28, 2009
Not to be outdone by The Australian, Quadrant has launched its own series on the left. This time with non-leftists writing it… And writing about the Australian‘s articles. Jason Soon, for instance, along the way to arguing that social justice [...]
Posted in Blogging, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Derrida, Gary Sauer-Thompson, ideology, Jason Soon, Julia Gillard, Larvatus prodeo, left, LP, postmodernism, Quadrant, Quadrant Online, social democracy, social justice, The Australian, the left, What's Left |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 25, 2009
On Saturday, I penned some thoughts on the series in The Australian on the Australian left, riffing off the first article by Tim Soutphommasane. Among other things, I queried the practice of addressing a discourse about left politics to the [...]
Posted in Australiana, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Media, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged ALP, Australian culture, classical liberalism, Crikey, Guy Rundle, History, ideology, Julia Gillard, labor party, labourism, political sociology, political theory, Politics, social democracy, Sociology, The Australian, Tim Soutphommasane, What's Left |
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 [...]
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