Embeddedness and Restructuring: Case Studies from Singapore

Free market ideology has continued its hegemonic reign notwithstanding considerable opposition. Under capitalism, the relationship between the political and economic realms is intricate. This inquiry on corporate restructuring in Singapore between the late 1990s and the early 2000s scrutinizes how a dominant state collaborated with the multinational corporations to reconstitute their accumulation regimes to outlast the business cycles. Based on six cases, the findings underscore the critical role of the state on the subject of restructuring. The peculiar configuration of the relations between the state and labour in Singapore shaped how they negotiated the restructuring process with the companies. While those involved reckoned that training, research and technology were pivotal, the foregoing were not the panacea that optimistic consultants had made them out to be. The interactions among capital, labour and the state remained the underpinnings of solutions.     

Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation: perverse effects,protectionism and Gemeinschaft

Abstract

Drawing upon Karl Polanyi's journalistic writings and unpublished lectures from the 1920s and 1930s, this article reconstructs the lineaments of his research programme that was to assume its finished form in The Great Transformation. It identifies and corrects a common misinterpretation of the thesis of that book, and argues that Polanyi's basic theoretical framework is best conceived as Tönniesian: market society is Gesellschaft, while the ‘protective counter-movement’ of The Great Transformation is Gemeinschaft, understood dynamically. It examines the two central mechanisms by which, in Polanyi's understanding, Gesellschaft broke down in the mid-twentieth century: the ‘clash between democracy and capitalism’ and the ‘perverse effects’ whereby political intervention in markets impairs profitability and saps the vitality of the market system.     

Varieties of capitalism and the Estonian economy: Institutions,growth and crisis in a liberal market economy

This article examines Estonia's economic institutions, performance and vulnerability to the global economic crisis in the context of the varieties of capitalism framework. It shows that Estonia shares many characteristics of a liberal market economy, but that there are also some features which do not fit the classical model, notably its corporate governance institutions. It also suggests that the varieties of capitalism framework can account for key features of Estonia's economic performance, including its growth trajectory and adjustment to the global financial crisis. The article also reflects on the broader significance of these findings for understanding post-communist capitalism.     

析资本主义拜物教的意识形态根源

马克思关于资本主义社会普遍存在的拜物教现象所作的精辟分析是建立在对资本主义社会的历史唯物主义阐释之上的,理解这一意识现象除了从经济、社会的维度把握其产生的根源,还要了解其意识形态根源,拜物教思想既有古老的宗教意识残留同时也是启蒙运动的产物,人的解放及人的需要的发展和放大对拜物教思想的盛行起了机杼性的作用。     

论俄国资本主义时期的农业经济

俄国在1861年改革后半个世纪的资本主义农业经济发展过程中,地主经济落后于农民经济发展水平。地主经济的特点是资本主义与半封建关系交织在一起。地主经济在农业生产总规模中所占比重较低,且不断缩小;绝大多数土地集中于少数地主手中,地主向农民出租土地;过高的租金与地租成为农民的主要负担,严重阻碍了农民经济的发展。在整个资本主义时期,农民经济是俄国农业生产的主力军,是农业生产中的主要形式;在资本主义农业进化过程中,地主经济压迫了农民经济的发展,正如列宁所论:地主经济在经济上是起反作用的。     

全球化时代的社会主义理论与实践

全球化作为一个客观的历史进程 ,是当今世界经济和生产力发展到一定阶段的产物。文章针对全球化对资本主义及社会主义的影响和结果进行了深入地探讨。社会主义只有不断改革自身、适应时代的要求 ,才能求得生存、发展。     

马克思的全球化思想与"跨越论"的逻辑关系

全球化思想贯穿于马克思研究资本主义的整个思想进程,马克思对资本主义发展过程的分析与对全球化进程的分析在逻辑上是一致的。与马克思对于资本主义的研究相对应的是他对于共产主义社会实现形式的预测,这一预测分为马克思早年的“共同胜利论”和晚年的“跨越论”两个阶段。马克思这两个阶段的理论并不是相互割裂的,“跨越论”是“共同胜利论”的逻辑结果,而其内在的逻辑动因则是全球化。     

当代世界的主要共产党对社会主义理论的探索

目前，资本主义世界的各国共产党不仅在冷战后坚持了下来，而且在当代社会主义理论探索上获得了较大的成就；对苏东剧变的性质和原因有了进一步的认识；对当代资本主义的新变化有了进一步的认识；对当代社会主义的许多问题有了新的认识；对党的性质，奋斗目标，指导思想，组织原则，革命道路和对外政策等问题都有许多新的认识。     

从金融危机看社会主义的生命力

“次贷危机”在美国爆发，并逐渐演变为金融危机在世界范围内蔓延，使得资本主义国家经济纷纷跌至谷底。而社会主义中国则有力抵御了其强烈冲击，保持了国民经济稳定有序的发展，在全球一片乱局中“风景这边独好”。这足以看出社会主义的生命力和社会主义制度的优越性。     

Politics of Violence

Abstract

Simon Critchley's Infinitely Demanding makes a timely contribution to contemporary debates in ethics and political philosophy. For all its originality, however, one can raise critical questions concerning Critchley's account of the forms of resistance possible within liberal democratic polities. In this article I question the adequacy of Critchley's ethically based neo-anarchism as a response to neo-liberalism, critically analysing the role of ideology in his account of the motivational deficit afflicting capitalist liberal democracies.