Aug 2026· Historical Materialism· 0 citations· 57 references
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This essay intervenes in contemporary debates around neoliberalism and its relationship to both authoritarianism and social democracy. It does so by reconstructing the debate on Thatcherism that took place between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop in the 1980s. Both authors provide materialist analyses of Thatcherism that point to important continuities, at the level of both political economy and authoritarian political technique, between her hegemonic project and late-stage social democracy. I argue that this provides an antidote to the social democratic nostalgia that is the potential product of the ways that neoliberalism is frequently theorised in the contemporary literature. While both thinkers highlight these continuities, they are more obviousin Jessop’s institutional approach to hegemony than in Hall’s analysis of Thatcher’s ideology.
The Swing to the Right: An Update of Latin American Politics Th e current authoritarian turn in neoliberal capitalism is providing further evidence that the dominant economic system is inseparable from the state apparatus -and, in this particular moment, from processes of state corpo ratization.Currently, tendencies li...
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
This article challenges the view that contemporary illiberalism constitutes a rupture with neoliberalism. It argues instead that illiberalism and the current New Right should be understood as either a mutation or a direct heir of the original New Right, rooted in the free-market conservatism of the postwar period and c...
Raphaël Demias-Morisset· Journal of Illiberalism Stud...· 0 citations
This article provides a brief response to contributions by Bartmanski and Phillips, and Hewson. While acknowledging the importance of their innovative and quite different deployment of Foucauldian analytical tools to the analysis of culture as a way of life and the possible erasure of humanity, respectively, it also id...
Siniša Malešević· Dialogues in Sociology· 1 citation
The stunning political upheavals witnessed across the western world over the past year have raised the question of whether the neoliberal economic system that has dominated since the 1980s is about to unravel.
During the 1930s, when liberalism last came under attack, two distinct ideologies offered hope to the disaffe...
This essay draws attention to the social processes that shape law. It argues, therefore, that processes of political institutionalisation arise out of sociocultural conflicts resolved through force in favour of a single collective actor, albeit only in relative and historically provisional terms. This essay seeks to...
E. Bevilacqua· International Journal for th...· 0 citations
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