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Stakeholder Capitalism, Again

Oliver Eagleton on Will Hutton, This Time No Mistakes. Lessons for the incoming Labour government on humanizing British capitalism, from a proselytizer of Blair’s Third Way.

Therborn’s World-Casting

Critical engagement with Göran Therborn’s global analysis of 21st-century society and its prospects for the left. If the contradictions that anchored 20th-century socialism have been surpassed, what has taken their place? Perspective for an emancipatory politics working aslant the grain of history.

Vicious, Horrible People

Oliver Eagleton on Owen Jones, This Land. A participant-observer provides a partial view of the manoeuvrings behind Corbyn’s defeat.

Political Generations

Oliver Eagleton on Keir Milburn, Generation Left. Age as the key modality of class, theorized by way of Hungarian sociology, autonomist Marxism and Badiouian philosophy.

Mind-Forged Manacles?

Oliver Eagleton on Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine. A Marxian-Freudian polemic against social media, seen as irredeemably hostile to progressive politics.