Category Archives: Former issues

Brown bib for the playboy

The essay is surfing the troubled waters of contemporary Russian culture, teaching us the "totalitarian" approach, also in the fields of film and music that faces a young system critical journal in Russia day by day. We should not be surprised if parallels can be made to the situation in Hungary.

The original article: Илья Смирнов: Коричневый слюнявчик для мальчика-мажора. №5 журнал «Скепсис» 2008.

Crafting the neoliberal state – Workfare, prisonfare and social insecurity

Against the marginalised, the neoliberal state uses both traditional negligence – They are responsible for their fate thus no intervention is needed – and punishing discipline against this group, in cases even tangible, direct and brutal oppression.

The article is a modified and shortened version of the theoratical summary of the book of the author Loic Wacquant: Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Durham, Duke University Press 2009.

The tasks ahead – March 2009 interview by Debate Socialista (Brazil)

The present crisis of the capitalist world is not just a cyclical one, but a comprehensive structural crisis of the system signing that the capital system has reached its absolute boundaries. As a result on the long run not only attempts to strengthen state regulation but also system stabilisation efforts by increasing oppression will be ineffective. This situation opens a new historic opportunity to create a new order based on solidarity and full social control of production. However to realise this theoretical opportunity, the defensive 20th century attitude of interest protection has to be given up, and strategic goals and the ways of fight of the working class should be profoundly rethought, as well as the relationship between its political and economy organisations.