---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 10:55 PM Subject: [NetworkedLabour] CFP: The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: States, Strategies, Socialisms Twelfth Annual Historical Materialism Conference , 5-8 November 2015 To: "<[email protected]>" < [email protected]> Begin forwarded message: *From:* "Sebastian Budgen [email protected] [historicalmaterialism]" <[email protected]> *Date:* 9 april 2015 16:07:39 CEST *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* *[historicalmaterialism] CFP: The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: States, Strategies, Socialisms Twelfth Annual Historical Materialism Conference , 5-8 November 2015* *Reply-To:* [email protected] The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: States, Strategies, Socialisms Twelfth Annual Historical Materialism Conference School of Oriental and African Studies, Central London, 5-8 November 2015 Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2015 Link for paper proposals will be live this weekend at www.historicalmaterialism.org As austerity tightens its grip around the throats of the peoples of Europe, but also rears its ugly head in Brazil and elsewhere, we are forced to recognize that it is not the mere byproduct of the « economic crisis » but a political project in its own right, one whose aim is to deepen and consolidate the most uncompromising forms of neoliberal capitalism. It cannot be said that this project has hitherto been met with passivity, even if social movements of resistance have been mostly far from strong enough to halt its advance. Yet something is perhaps beginning to change, namely the emergence of counter-austerity projects that have pitched themselves at a political - even electoral or governmental - level. With all their weaknesses, hesitations and contradictions, the chinks of light in Southern Europe, amongst others, should compel Marxists to pose a whole series of 'old' strategic and theoretical problems in new garbs and new configurations, ​but perhaps also to retire some of our dear fetishes and shibboleths, and to experiment with forms and strategies adequate to our present. Among the themes that have returned to the agenda are: the relationship of movements and parties of the radical Left to states and governments; the need for a political response to how class power is enmeshed with forms of domination that have gender, race, imperialism or sexuality as their axes; possible « socialist » futures and the « transitional » mediations implied by them; the guiding dichotomies of left thought: reform and revolution, revolution and revolt, state and movement, parties classes and masses; the link between the limits to capital and the limits of politics. At this year’s Historical Materialism Annual Conference in London, 5-8 November 2015, we would like to encourage papers on these and other topics, with a particular focus on Greece, Spain and Latin America as laboratories for these experiences and debates. Among the themes we would like to explore are:* Dual Power and Socialist Transition Communisation, Accelerationism and their limits Transitional Programme Redivivus? The European Union as a Class Project Greece and Spain as Laboratories of Change Latin America - What Follows the Pink Wave? Cultural and Aesthetic Representations of Crisis What Is Populism? The Reformist Hypothesis Right-wing Strategies in the Crisis Other themes we would like to see are: Nietzsche and Marxism (to celebrate the publication of Domenico Losurdo’s book on Nietzsche in the HM Book Series) History and Actuality of the first four congresses of the Communist International Social Reproduction Race and Capitalism Capitalism, Logistics and the Sea The Legacy of Nicos Poulantzas and Left Eurocommunism Capitalism and Global Inequality: Keynes or Marx? Marxist Thought in the Arab World China: Is the Miracle About to Crash? « Leninism » and its Discontents Strategies of Counter-Revolution Culture and State Building Rebuilding Communities and the Battles around Housing. Technologies and Culture *This is a non-exclusive list - other subjects are of course welcome too. Preconstituted panels are welcome but we reserve the right to disaggregate them and create new panels with some of the speakers proposed. N.B. Given the complexity of organising a conference of this size, we cannot guarantee that speakers will be able to speak on a certain day or at a certain time. Last minute changes to the conference programme may be necessary due to cancellations, and we ask for speakers' understanding should a paper or session need to be moved. Finally, please do not propose a paper unless there are realistic prospects that you will be able to attend - « no shows » cause endless knock-on problems of organisation and stress. 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