Marxists now produced hermetic knowledge, inaccessible to ordinary workers, about fields without any direct relationship to political strategy
The apogee of the New Left occurred from around 1968 until about 1977 (the Italian autonomist movement)
Critical theories are theories that more or less comprehensively challenge the existing social order. The criticisms they formulate do not concern particular aspects of this order, like the imposition of a tax on financial transactions (the ‘Tobin tax’) or some measure relating to pension reform
The term ‘critical theory’ has a long history. Traditionally – often in the singular and upper case – it refers to the thinkers of the Frankfurt School, the generations of philosophers and sociologists who have succeeded one another at the helm of that city’s Institut für Sozialforschung
The International Monetary Fund has long been a bulwark of international neo-liberalism
