Michael Mann criticizes class reductionist theories of the capitalist state which described the state as an organization for managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie (504). While he acknowledged that Marx had a point in this regard, he insists that Marx had “underestimated the constraints on capitalism that moralideological and party-democratic crystallizations might bring.” My question to Micha...

At the turn of the 20th century politics in Bulgaria was dominated by a large liberal party representing the democratically oriented bourgeoisie and independent entrepreneurs who favoured constitutionalism, parliamentarism, and social policies while the main opposition was constituted by conservatives of the richer upper classes and clergy.1 These elitarian parties ruled until World War I when ...

The article demonstrates the centrality of academic concern, in discipline Ethnic-Racial Relations, which is given by an observation different Brazilian filmographies. A Chanchada was paroxysm stereotype racial inferiority image Iberian-Afro-American as a rural ethnic demand Amerindian heritage progress-averse Jeca Tatu. To affirm superiority imagetic hegemony Euro-hetero-macho-authoritarian si...

Reciprocity, redistribution, and (market) exchange were the “forms of integration” put forward by Karl Polanyi as a “special tool box” to investigate relations between economy society where principle price-forming markets is not (yet) dominant. Though intended basis for comparative alternative universalist assumptions mainstream (neoclassical) economics, did make significant use these concepts ...

In “Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa”, Thomas Waller offers a comparative reading of literary responses to neoliberalization southern Africa. Reading the proliferation spectral effects Mozambican literature late 1980s alongside dystopian depictions societal collapse contemporary Angolan fiction, he suggests that writers two states have used distinctive aesthetic idi...

The concept of "public sphere”, which has been one the main discussion topics academy since 1980s, derives its basis from Jürgen Habermas' Structural Transformation Publicity, published in 1962. bourgeoisie, whose influence increased European society, creates a public community places such as halls, cafes, and clubs where it had critically discussed 18th century, this spread to with increase pu...