folk politics [...] often rejects the project of hegemony, valuing withdrawal or exit rather than building a broad counter-hegemony
Neoliberalism has failed, social democracy is impossible, and only an alternative vision can bring about universal prosperity and emancipation.
The utopian potentials inherent in twenty-first-century technology cannot remain bound to a parochial capitalist imagination; they must be liberated by an ambitious left alternative.
We must create a Europe that does not squander its blood and strength on internecine conflict, but forms a compact unity.
endnote v
The differences between Greece and Ireland are instructive. Ireland had a tiny debt before 2008. Greece had a large one. The reason is simple: capital flow from the surplus countries was directed into the Greek state, which in turn passed it on to developers--those who built highways, 2004 Olympic …
