Elizabeth Humphrys, "How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project" (Haymarket, 2019)
New Books in Critical Theory
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The Importance of Understanding the Nature of the State
The main theorist you engage with is Antonio Gramsci. Specifically, you utilize his concept of integral state. This is coming from the context of Karl Marx's contention that there's an irreconcilable antagonism between the state and civil society. How do you see this concept being helpful for understanding the construction of neoliberalism in Australia? Perhaps the answer to this starts with, why would I even be looking at this topic? I said before, it was because I was interested in the accord in that period. My abiding interest as someone who's been involved in activism and social change and in a trade union is what is the nature of the state? Why does the state often not do what
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