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[...] Bases of traditional Conservative power, such as the fabled entrepeneur, are sacrificed to the exigencies of the corporate multinational, to Tesco and Costa, and to the rationales of the market. [...] Neoliberalism is first and foremost an ideology of enterprise, and all objects come under it…

What is instead necessary is a far more difficult task: to reject the assumption that movements against racial oppression can be effectively understood in terms of the category of identity. When the ruling class encourages us to reduce the struggle against racial oppression to the ultimately indivi…

As a general rule, an identity group is understood to have political demands insofar as it can address the state with the claim to have been injured on the basis of its identity, and demand redress for those injuries. According to this logic, the challenge to the hegemony of the white ruling class…

There are those for whom such apophatic Marxist eschatology is dereliction. On the left, some insist that blueprints for a realistic alternative, the more precise the better, will be the most effective mobiliser. [...]

[...] The request that capitalism be replaced with 'something nicer' should b…

When in The German Ideology, Marx insists that communism is not 'an ideal to which reality will have to conform itself' but 'the real movement which abolishes the present condition', it is precisely the immanence of a radical alterity that precludes its being spoken. Whatever Marx may at times ha…