… and post-modernism to analyse the role of cyborgs as political metaphor and future representation. The cyborg she constructs is “a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction” which not only exists, but may provide new opportunities for feminist theories to coalesce (Haraway:149). Although this essay has …

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… and the triumph of Western capitalist democracy. And yet, these misguided assertions failed to address two key points - that Soviet-style top-down communism was not what Karl Marx envisioned in his writings, and that Marxism contained more than simple rhetoric about revolutionary struggle, it was also a meticulous economic analysis of capitalist society and the socio-political …

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… the delusive development agenda of capitalist ideologues, we have to re-build our societies and economies to deal with primitive accumulation in a more humane way.

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… The Complementary Convergence of Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi.” Politics and Society 31:2 (2003): 208-251.
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Clegg, Peter. “The Development of the Windward Islands Banana Export Trade: Commercial Opportunity and Colonial Necessity”. The …

… at every turn, what many environmentalists struggle so hard against today has its genesis in the tradition of realism.
Concerning environmental advocacy, the reorientation of debates away from instrumental rationality, though an extremely difficult task, is both necessary and desirable. But how this is done is perhaps my political point of contention. Using realism to achieve this goal …