The Comment Factory » the left http://www.thecommentfactory.com Join And Start Writing Today! Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:06:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A “progressive moment”? http://www.thecommentfactory.com/a-progressive-moment-2767/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/a-progressive-moment-2767/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:53:56 +0000 Richard Seymour http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=2767
  • What is progressive about David Cameron? Serious question. Will Hutton likes Cameron’s ideas. The current editor of the New Statesman says he takes Cameron’s claim to progressivism seriously. The centre-left Prospect magazine has been carrying puff-pieces...
  • Worst. Election. Ever. This election, then, could hardly be less inspiring. At most, it punctuates the processes leading toward a ferocious class conflict, accentuating one or other facet of it, handing the advantage...
  • Scotland still loyal to Labour, but why? The Labour Party increased its vote at the UK general election in the west of Scotland in spite of recession, scandal and 13 years in office. So why are Labour...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/a-progressive-moment-2767/feed/ 0     Iran Fantasies http://www.thecommentfactory.com/iran-fantasies-2268/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/iran-fantasies-2268/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:58:23 +0000 Max Ajl http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=2268
  • A riposte to Hamid Dabashi on Iran It’s not altogether clear from this physical distance who’s been protesting this past month, nor can we know the protesters’ composition with any precision. But over 70 million people live...
  • Will the cat above the precipice fall down?: Slavoj Zizek on Iran Whatever the outcome, it is vitally important to keep in mind that we are witnessing a great emancipatory event which doesn’t fit the frame of the struggle between pro-Western liberals...
  • Iran accuses the British embassy in Tehran of fomenting unrest The British Embassy’s Iranian staff are caught in a tricky position. They remain Iranian citizens living in Iran, yet serving a foreign government, leading to suspicion about their loyalty, and...
    • ]]>     http://www.thecommentfactory.com/iran-fantasies-2268/feed/ 21     The Left failed to capitalize on the economic crisis http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-left-failed-to-capitalize-on-the-economic-crisis-2220/ http://www.thecommentfactory.com/the-left-failed-to-capitalize-on-the-economic-crisis-2220/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:23:20 +0000 Richard Seymour http://www.thecommentfactory.com/?p=2220
  • The center-left has failed to capitalize on the financial crisis The global left needs to imagine a radical new regulatory framework with actual meaning in response to the current financial crisis. So far this hasn't happened, and it requires a...
  • What 1929 can tell us about the current economic crisis While we continue to put our faith in superstar economists to explain the current recession, it would be more helpful to look at the lessons of history as the parallels...
  • G20 was trying to use the causes of the economic crisis to fix it The G20 was apparently conceived by Bush in concert with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, but its prescriptions are old and failed exercizes in neoliberal orthodoxy. ...
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