by Elizabeth Humphrys | Mar 4, 2017 | Anti-politics, Australian History, Events, Gramsci
Next week I am speaking at the Sydney Historical Research Network seminar, as part of their History Now series. The topic is ‘The History of Class Now’. Speaking chronologically are Hannah Forsyth (ACU), Terry Irving (University of...
by Elizabeth Humphrys | Feb 20, 2015 | Anti-politics, Neoliberalism
We live in anti-political times. After a twentieth century in which Western societies experienced the rise and entrenchment of mass representative institutions, where hundreds of millions of people accepted that politics was the main way to have their social interests...
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...