Daniel's Journal
A journal of my writings on philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics and Marxism for our time.
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Chile’s Road from Revolt to Reaction: An Autopsy of the Boric Government (opens the original)
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The Tyranny of Contingency (opens the original)
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Political Power and Social Classes (opens the original)
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I’m leading a study group and lecture series on Nicos Poulantzas’s landmark 1968 work, Political Power and Social Classes. Over the past few years I have been writing a systematic book on class theory and Poulantzas’s work has been hugely influential. In his 1968 work, he develops a systematic Marxist theory of the political that rejects both economic reductionism and the idea that the state is simply an instrument directly controlled by the capitalist class. His main idea is that the capitalist
Something Worse (opens the original)
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Centrists seem to wait patiently for the failure of the Left (opens the original)
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I was interviewed by about the state of the US left and the resurgence of socialist politics for the weekly newspaper Brecha. Check out my recent discussion with Delacoste on Emancipations which was released this week.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UwT3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazo
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