Abstract This paper theorizes the nature of neoliberal social policy, making three substantial contributions. First, processes “economization” are identified as a central characteristic neoliberalism: economization constitutes “bridge” between Foucauldian and (neo-)Marxist accounts neoliberalism – two perspectives that in many respects hardly reconcilable because extending economic logic to non...

justice demonstrates in behavior of any person with another person and in government behavior with the people of the society. social justice is a kind of justice that expresses this concept in society. selecting the slogan of justice from modernity1 by marxism caused the social justice be the main idea in the governance of communist cities. the idea that it is different concept based of marxist...

This paper analyses the agrarian hacienda as chief defining political-economic institution that shaped class composition and state formation of colonial early postcolonial Mexico. Following insightful theoretical framework political Marxism, this article reviews evolution Mexican social property relations from colonization (in 16th century) to independence 19th employing a novel methodology. Du...

Rapid urbanization has caused numerous problems, and the urban spatial structure has been a hot topic in sustainable development management. Urban spatial structure is affected by a series of factors. Thus, the research model should synthetically consider the spatial and non-spatial relationship of every element. Here, we propose an extended Voronoi diagram for exploring the urban land spatial ...

Political developments in the last ten years have led to a very considerable renewal of interest in Marxist economic and political analysis, and to a concerted attempt to reinvigorate Marxist theory as a revolutionary force. The focus of this movement is the attempt to develop a Marxist critique of Stalinist dogmatism and of post-Stalinist revisionism. Its material conditions are the end of the...