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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Two-Track Fascism: Notes On The Collusion Of Far-Right Demagogues Like Trump With Street-Level Fascists, Stephen D'Arcy
Two-Track Fascism: Notes On The Collusion Of Far-Right Demagogues Like Trump With Street-Level Fascists, Stephen D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
Regime Change From Below - Toppling The Doug Ford Regime, Stephen D'Arcy
Regime Change From Below - Toppling The Doug Ford Regime, Stephen D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
Are Riots Good For Democracy? (Debate W/ Vijay Prashad), Stephen D'Arcy, Vijay Prashad
Are Riots Good For Democracy? (Debate W/ Vijay Prashad), Stephen D'Arcy, Vijay Prashad
Stephen D'Arcy
The Rise Of The Post-New Left Political Vocabulary, Stephen D'Arcy
The Rise Of The Post-New Left Political Vocabulary, Stephen D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
Does the emergence of a new political vocabulary for articulating the politics of broadly leftist activists, roughly in the 1990s, reflect a learning process, so that we can think of it as more sophisticated and illuminating than the jargon of the 60s and 70s New Left — the product of a new sensitivity to key issues that were previously overlooked or badly understood? Or does its emergence, with its symptomatic timing in the wake of the Reagan/Thatcher era and the wave of defeats inflicted on the Left in those years, indicate that the new vocabulary is not so much innovation …
Strategy, Meta-Strategy, And Anti-Capitalist Activism, Stephen J. D'Arcy
Strategy, Meta-Strategy, And Anti-Capitalist Activism, Stephen J. D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
Whereas Marxism is a theory, or rather a cluster of theories, Leninism is something else: a political strategy. And as Lenin himself pointed out, strategies are neither true nor false, but only effective nor ineffective, depending largely on the context within which they are carried out. In the context of contemporary North America, however, the adoption by radical activists of the standard Leninist norms for anti-capitalist organizing would be counter-productive. What is needed now is a very different approach: a strategy of attrition, as Lenin would have said, rather than a strategy of overthrow. This article concludes by sketching an …
Participatory Democracy And The Renewal Of Radical Politics, Stephen D'Arcy
Participatory Democracy And The Renewal Of Radical Politics, Stephen D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
In recent decades, the project of radically transforming societies to create communities that are in some sense 'socialist' has undergone a profound crisis. This crisis has sometimes looked like a complete collapse of the radical Left. In this paper, I make the case for a cautiously optimistic assessment of the prospects for a self-reinvention by the North American radical Left, on the basis of grassroots organizing for a non-statist, egalitarian and participatory-democratic alternative to capitalism.
The Militant Protester As Model Citizen, Stephen D'Arcy
The Militant Protester As Model Citizen, Stephen D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
Argues the militancy is a civic virtue.
Is There Ever An Obligation To Commit Welfare Fraud?, Stephen D'Arcy
Is There Ever An Obligation To Commit Welfare Fraud?, Stephen D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
Argues that, in some cases, public assistance recipients have both a right and a duty to commit 'welfare fraud.'
Deliberative Democracy, Direct Action, And Animal Advocacy, Stephen D'Arcy
Deliberative Democracy, Direct Action, And Animal Advocacy, Stephen D'Arcy
Stephen D'Arcy
No abstract provided.