by Elizabeth Humphrys | Dec 9, 2014 | Anti-politics
In November I co-organised (with Tad Tietze) a panel discussion on ‘Anti-politics, social movements & the practical critique of the state’ at the London Historical Materialism Journal conference. It featured three papers (abstracts below) and you can hear the...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Dec 8, 2014 | Anti-politics, Gramsci
Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Nov 18, 2014 | Anti-politics
Tad Tietze and I originally wrote “Anti-politics: Elephant in the room” on Left Flank just over a year ago, and we were trying to summarise the changes in our thinking over the causes and consequences of the “crisis of representation” that the blog had been focused on...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Oct 31, 2013 | Anti-politics
‘They don’t represent us’ —Spanish Indignados protest *** This post was originally published at Left Flank. *** By ELIZABETH HUMPHRYS & TAD TIETZE At a certain point in their historical lives, social classes become detached from their traditional parties. In other...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Oct 27, 2013 | Anti-politics, Capitalism
This post was originally published at Left Flank. *** OK Russell, let’s get this done. I’m in Europe and the crisis is everywhere. I landed in Greece and it hit me in the face: people trying to generate an income in any way they can; road works half complete and not...
