PROKLA - Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft
Not a member yet
1980 research outputs found
Sort by
Die gegenwärtige Finanzkrise und die Grenzen der US-amerikanischen Geldpolitik
No full textSince the 1980s, the US has developed a form of finance-led capitalism in which growth has been highly dependent on credit expansion and asset bubbles. Profitability has steadily climbed, and there has been a massive redistribution of income in favour of the top 1% of income earners. But the financial crisis which began in August 2007 and which deepened with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 has left this model in ruins. As the traditional instruments of monetary policy proved ineffective the US state was obliged to partially nationalise the financial system. With banks unwilling to lend to even the best-known companies, the US economy is faced with a major recession which is likely to further exacerbate the difficulties facing the financial sector
Neoliberalismus und Evangelikalismus in den USA: Desintegration der Christlichen Rechten- Aufstieg einer Evangelikalen Linken
No full textRecently, there has been much debate about the rise of an Evangelical Left in the United States. This debate has focused on the emergence of influential evangelical leaders breaking away from the Republican Party, such as Rick Warren. This debate mistakes a hegemonic crisis of (neo-)conservatism with a hegemonic crisis of neoliberalism. Instead, the evangelical movement in the United States needs to be analyzed in the context of neoliberalism and the decline of class-based forms of solidarity, which it replaced. Throughout their ascent, the evangelical institutions have inscribed themselves into and become a part of the neoliberal state. At the same time, the depth of the economic crisis, the remaining class character of the evangelical movement, the importance of evangelical churches as arenas of hegemonic struggles and, finally, the existing shift in national discourse in terms of the ecological question, the social question and the rehabilitation of the state vis-a-vis the market mark an opening of the political situation in the US that may eventually lead to a replacement of the current evangelical centrism by the actual Evangelical Left as part of a counter-hegemonic postneoliberal historic bloc
Editorial: Politik mit der Inneren (Un-)Sicherheit
No full textEditorial: Politik mit der Inneren (Un-)Sicherhei
Repressive Toleranz und der "Pluralismus" der Oligarchien
Get PDFTendencies of increasing repression and surveillance are described and different theoretical approaches of explanation are discussed. The author concludes that as an answer to growing social disintegration a development can be found, which leads in the direction of a decision making oligarchy behaving to the rest of the society in a way, which can be characterised as repressive tolerance
Die Bedeutung des Gefängnisses für das neue Armutsregime
Get PDFThe spectacular growth of incarcertion in the U.S. can hardly be explained by the genesis a "prisonindustrial complex," as suggested by some criminologists, journalists and justice activists. Instead we must look at the rise of the "liberal-paternalist state", in which the prison functions as part of a triadic institutional nexus: The penal system contlibutes directly to regulating the lower segments of the labor market; it complements and compensates for the collapsing ghetto as device for the confinement of a population considered deviant, deviolls, and dangerous; and it is directly connected to the logic of welfare-to-workfare reforms
\u27Eastanizing\u27: Gewerkschaftliche Herausforderung Ostdeutschland
Get PDFWith German unification the western and the eastern part of Germany were reunited to a new economy and social system, but not to a uniform one. The upcoming disparities are caused by more than the well known regional inequalities. In many aspects eastern Germany differentiates from the old West-Germany, in particular to the unconventional activity spheres of the trade unions. But neither the trade union research nor the well known trade union strategy recommendations pay attention to the special conditions in the new regions
Soziale Bewegungen und Hegemonie: Anmerkungen zu Raimund Feld
No full textBei manchen Diskussionsbeiträgen möchte man zunächst an die AutorInnen appellieren, den Text, den sie kritisieren, etwas genauer zu lesen. Die Replik von Raimund Feld auf meine Analyse "Soziale Bewegungen und autoritärer Populismus" aus PROKLA 148 ist von dieser Art. Ich will daher im Foigenden zunächst auf Feld fehlerhafter Lektüre meines Textes eingehen, mich anschließend jedoch v.a. zweier inhaltlicher Streitpunkte annehmen, bei denen unsere Einschätzungen der politischen Situation in Frankreich voneinander abzuweichen scheinen. Diese betreffen die sozialen Bewegungen der letzten Jahre sowie die Reichweite und Stabilität des Präsidialregimes von Nicolas Sarkozy
Editorial: Gesellschaftstheorie nach Marx und Foucault
Get PDFEditorial: Gesellschaftstheorie nach Marx und Foucaul
Theoretisch keine Brüder: Foucault und Marx als Antagonisten
Get PDFTheoretically no Brothers: Marx and Foucault as Antagonists_ In spite of Foucault\u27sfrequent and positive references to Marx he does not deal with the critique of politicaleconomy. Foucault defines power in demarcation to Marxism and to approaches that theorizepower in relation to economy. This leads to serious flaws in Foucault\u27s analytics of power. If wecompare Foucault\u27s analysis of discipline and law to Marx\u27 we can see that the two theories areincompatible. Attempts to merge Foucault and Marx otten lack methodological considerations.However it may be possible to re-interpret certain of Foucault\u27s findings from a Marxian perspectiveand in doing so connecting Foucault and Marx
Gesicherte Freiheit?
Get PDFThis article presents a chronological overview of security legislation in (West)Germany, starting with anti-communist measures in the 1950s and 1960s, analyzing laws against "radicals", the RAF, and against organized crime, ending with "security-packages" after 9/11. Finally, the bulk of security legislation is criticized from a political as well as a legal-sociological point of view