The strategic shifts in Labour's attempt to dominate the center ground of British politics started under the leadership of Neil Kinnock, strengthened with John Smith, but only received its apotheosis under Tony Blair. Like Thatcherism in the early 1980s, the project continued to evolve and take concrete shape in the early years of the Labour government. In a series of subsequent speeches Blair ...

The philosophy of dialectic has always been among the most controversial and least well understood aspects of Hegelian and Marxist thought. It is rejected by many writers who are otherwise sympathetic to Marxism. One such is Marquit. In a recent article (Marquit, 1990), he criticizes the dialectical concept of contradiction. Many of his arguments will be familiar to anyone acquainted with the r...

The global bioeconomy is generating new paradigm-shifting practices of knowledge co-production, such as collective innovation; large-scale, data-driven global consortia science (Big Science); and consortia ethics (Big Ethics). These bioeconomic and sociotechnical practices can be forces for progressive social change, but they can also raise predicaments at the interface of law, human rights, an...

Many criticisms have been raised against historical materialism, both from outside of the Marxist tradition and from within. Some of these I engage in the sections from my book Reconstructing Marxism assigned for this session. What I will do here is briefly list five criticisms. Some of these can be countered fairly effectively, others are more serious. I will not discuss all of these in detail...

This essay aims to how Marx’s ideas and subsequent Marxist-inspired scholarship have contributed to the analysis of the various forms of work organization. It summarizes Marx’s basic philosophy, theory of history, and critique of political economy; it distinguishes more critical and more optimistic variants of Marxist theory; and it then shows how these ideas have been used in the analysis of k...

Over the last two decades, research on professional service firms has developed into an important subfield of management studies. In this article, I offer a postcolonial critique subfield. show that it is not only built almost exclusively studies conducted in West but also generally presents its theorizing as though were universal. This despite field being mostly focused transnational firms. It...