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Argues that Hong Kong, in its transition to Chinese rule, has actually become less socialist & friendlier to the interests of the business elite. In contrast to perceptions of colonial Hong Kong as the epitome of laissez-faire economics, it used a property system that precluded full property rights (& provided significant government revenues) & had a relatively generous social welfare program that included wide-scale housing subsidies. Since the onset of Chinese rule, social spending has been reduced against the wishes of democratic politicians, & the government has been realigned to favor an executive organ dominated by business leaders. This probusiness orientation developed out of the Chinese government's early courting of support for Chinese rule & has resulted in the suspension of workers' rights legislation, cuts in higher education, deprioritization of the environment, & general erosion of economic & social rights. A postscript assesses the implications of recent turbulence in Hong Kong's stock market. E. Blackwell

This paper attempts to understand why the Jews, who have benefited so much from capitalism, nevertheless in the main adopt political postures that reject capitalism in favor of its polar opposite, socialism and government intervention into the economy. The author discusses various theories that have been proposed to explain why this group of people, whose socio-economic status might be expected to incline them in the direction of the Republican political party in the U.S., instead vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrat party candidates. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Market as a Party? -- 2. Eight Hundred Years of Economic Growth, 1000-1800 -- 3. Between Feudalism and Freedom, 1000-1350 -- 4. Capitalism and Civil Society in Late Medieval Holland, 1350-1566 -- 5. A Capitalist Revolution? The Dutch Revolt, 1566-1609 -- 6. New Capitalism at Home and Overseas -- 7. The Republican State and "Varieties of Capitalism" -- 8. Capitalism and Inequality in the Eighteenth Century -- 9. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state. After the Second World War, Democrats and Republicans effectively eliminated the communist and socialist parties from the American political spectrum and suppressed their allied labor movements. The right-wing shift of both parties fabricated a false opposition of left and right that does not correspond to political oppositions in the industrialized democracies. Marxist perspectives can account for the massive inequality of the political economy, but they are insufficient for illuminating its preservation. Psychoanalysis is necessary in order to explain why Americans continue to vote within a two-party system that neglects the lower classes, and why the working class tends to vote against its own interests. The psychoanalytic techniques employed include doubling, repetition, displacement, condensation, inversion, denial, fetishizing, and cognitive repression. In examining the fixation upon the proxy binary of Democrat vs. Republican, which suppresses the true opposition of left vs. right and neutralizes alternatives, the work analyses numerous contemporary political issues through applications of Marxist psychoanalytic theory.

Translated from Kommunist, no. 4, 1984.

This article explores the popularization of gender reveal parties and considers what they can tell us about current societal expectations around gender, parenthood, and consumption. Gender reveal parties are events in which expectant parents reveal, or even learn, the sex of the child-to-be through a surprise display of something pink or blue, typically using innocuous means such as confetti, balloons, or a coloured cake. However, methods for revealing fetal sex have become increasingly bizarre and dangerous, involving firearms, car fires, and, in at least one case, an alligator. This article examines digital media depictions of gender reveal parties and their aftermath; discusses sexing technologies and diversity in biological sex and gender; looks critically at how capitalism and the White neoliberal state have constructed the gender reveal party as a performative event for parents-to-be; and explores the physical and affective violence done to individuals, families, and the natural environment by gender reveal parties.

AbstractThis article argues that after the Golden Age of capitalism, corporatist methods of policy-making have come to depend on specific modes of party competition. In contrast to previous studies of corporatism, which have argued that corporatism depends on strong social democratic parties, this article suggests that the competition between well-defined left-wing and right-wing 'blocs' has become detrimental to corporatism. In countries with mixed governments or traditions of power-sharing, on the other hand, corporatism thrives. These conclusions are based on a comparison of four traditionally corporatist countries – Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden and Switzerland – from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.