Ralph Miliband
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Recent papers in Ralph Miliband
Miliband’s article, published in 1992, is a critique on the Francis Fukuyama’s well-known work The End of the History and The Last Man, published in 1992. Maybe it was a coincidence that Huntington’s famous article, The Clash of... more
Ce texte s'attarde aux différends entre Nicos Poulantzas et Ralph Miliband dans les pages de la New Left Review sur l’État entre 1969 et 1976. Il s'agit donc d'un résumé des contentieux, mais aussi des quelques points de convergence entre... more
"With increasing globalization, the meaning and role of the nation-state are in flux. At the same time, state theory, which might help to explain such a trend, has fallen victim to the general decline of radical movements, particularly... more
Die Rezeption der Schriften von Nicos Poulantzas, einem der prominentesten marxistischen Staatstheoretiker der 1970er Jahre, hatte einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Entwicklung des Werkes von Ernesto Laclau. Im Folgenden werde ich... more
We have recently lived through the turmoil of a global financial crisis that originated in the United States and, despite the platitudes of neo-liberal ideology, nation-states were deeply involved in managing this crisis. If “the state”... more
Die Diskussion über postkapitalistische Strategien heute kann von Nicos Poulantzas viel lernen. Ein Endpunkt ist seine Theorie des Staates im Kapitalismus jedoch nicht. Stattdessen ist sie auch durch historische Kontextualisierung in der... more
Presented at a Platypus teach-in on the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth, April 22, 2020. Video recording available online at: <https://youtu.be/01z8Mzz2IY4>. ON THE OCCASION OF THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF LENIN’S BIRTH, I would like to... more
The state is such a complex theoretical object and so complicated an empirical one that no single theoretical approach can fully capture and explain its complexities. The resulting aporia was reflected in the debate between Nicos... more
This article traces some of the rhetoric flowing from Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party to the New Left, a political and intellectual movement in the UK which rose up to challenge the Stalinisation of socialism. These New... more
This paper aims to investigate the underlying methodological roots and problems of Marxist state theory. Despite these well-developed sociological theories, we have come no closer to capturing the actual phenomenon that is the state as an... more
This is a review for 'Labour History' of 'Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left'
The decline of neoliberal hegemony has by now spread from the periphery of the imperialist chain to some of the core countries of global capitalism itself. The rise of new political formations such as the German Left Party is evidence of... more
A review of Stanley Aronowitz and Peter Bratsis, eds. Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, and Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney, eds., Implicating Empire: Globalization and... more