The old state was to be smashed, but the new one put in its place would wither away with the fulfilment of its transitional tasks. This break with Jacobin statism was reactivated in his later portrait of the Paris Commune, and would become a tenet of a later revolutionary Marxism.

the caesura between bourgeois society and capitalism should not be conceived as some absolute discontinuity but rather as a problem to be resolved by historical studies

marking the end of a Conservative–Liberal dyarchy that had lasted for more than a century

Their continued activities belied government claims that all paramilitaries had laid down their arms following a government-sponsored demobilization programme that began in 2003

Uribe’s senior by one year, Santos is the scion of an elite family

Growth averaged nearly 5 per cent between 2010 and 2014, while inequality remained vertiginous.

history as civilizational leaps has typically been a dialectical process of material advances followed by marcher lord conquest and a greater geographical stage (empire)

The initial polarity here is between ideology along Durkheimian lines as a power-enhancing means of solidarity and cohesion in social formations, and ideology as Weberian value-rationality, where there can be no adjudication between ultimate values.

The initial polarity here is between ideology along Durkheimian lines as a power-enhancing means of solidarity and cohesion in social formations, and ideology as Weberian value-rationality, where there can be no adjudication between ultimate values.

Neoliberalism failed to bring proper recovery (from the viewpoint of the many); and in any case came chiefly to mark the Anglophone countries along with the now globalized and enormously expanded financial sector.