onoptikonJun 22, 2025
The Post-Political Privilege State: Neo-liberalism, Crisis Management and the Class Logic of Welfare Retraction @SSRN https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5284276
#PostPolitics #StateTheory #Neoliberalism #CrisisManagement #AlgorithmicGovernance #WorldSystemsTheory #TransnationalCapitalistClass #Hegemony #Biopolitics #Immunity #PostcolonialTheory #Municipalism
The Post-Political Privilege State: Neoliberalism, Crisis Management and the Class Logic of Welfare Retraction

This paper introduces the concept of the "Post-Political Privilege State" (PPPS) to analyze the contemporary transformation of the state's function. I

ZNet (unofficial)May 6, 2024

In this #interview, #JerryHarris challenges the traditional leftist view of capitalism, introducing the concept of the transnational capitalist class #TCC.

He discusses conflicts within #neocolonialism, examines the role of state actors, and distinguishes the TCC analysis from #WorldSystemsTheory.

He also responds to the assertion that the US left should focus solely on opposing "our own" bourgeoisie, emphasizing the importance of international class solidarity.

https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-doesnt-the-world-make-sense-anymore-an-interview-with-jerry-harris/

Why Doesn’t the World Make Sense Anymore? An Interview With Jerry Harris

Much of the Left would like to act as if nothing fundamental has changed in the way that capitalism has been operating over the last fifty years. 

ZNetwork
Artun FaliroDec 29, 2023

Taking Political Determinants of Planetary Health Seriously

Political determinants of planetary health – that health is not ‘just healthcare’ but is co-produced by structural factors such as class and decolonial struggles, race, gender, sexuality, xenophobia, ableism, market fundamentalism, anthropocentrism - have been overlooked to date in science and medicine.

#FrantzFanon #ImmanuelWallerstein #postdevelopment #postcolonial #decolonial #WorldSystemsTheory

Epub:
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/omi.2023.0276

Frank JacobDec 16, 2022
Forthcoming in full open access
#ImmanuelWallerstein #WorldSystemsTheory #WorldSystemsAnalysis #Wallerstein #WorldSystem
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/wallerstein-2-0/9783837660449
Wallerstein 2.0 | Columbia University Press

Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors address the possibi... | CUP

Columbia University Press