Libertarian or Maoist?
A new quiz show! Everyone can play! Can you correctly match the ideology to the statement? (No cheating! Follow the links only after guessing!)1.Promoting equality of the sexes...by excluding women from citizenship. Notice that her husband, who presumably shares her religious views, is already a citizen.2. (via th

Comments on Cohen
Here are the comments I delivered yesterday as part of the Cohen symposium:Analysis Terminated? Towards a Post-Analytical MarxismOr: What Can Bullshit Marxists Learn from G. A. Cohen?I never encountered Jerry Cohen, the man. I only knew G. A. Cohen, the author of important and influential books and essays in analytical Marxism. Jerry Cohen, so I’m told, was playful, funny, kind, and generous. The G. A. Cohen I knew was dead serious – if also capable of wit – harsh in his judgments, and quite intimidating. He was also incredibly sharp and really knew his way around Marx. I read his work – everything relevant to the study of Marx, that is – w

G.A. Cohen In Memoriam: A Critical Celebration of His Life and Work
This Friday, 27 November 2009, 10am - 2pmMcGill University, Old McGill Room, Faculty Club Programme:Joseph Carens (Toronto) "Motivation and Equality in Cohen"Jurgen De Wispelaere (CRÉUM) "C

CFP: Roundtable on Marx's Capital
Via the Society for Social and Political Philosophy:The SSPP is pleased to issue a CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for aRoundtable on Marx’s CapitalTexas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February 24-27, 2011Our second Roundtable will explore Volume One of Marx’s Capital (1867). We chose this text because the resurgence in references to and mentions of Marx – provoked especially by the financial crisis, but presaged by the best-seller status of Hardt and Negri’s Empire and Marx’s surprising victory in the BBC’s “greatest philosopher” poll – has only served to

We're All Israeli Now
...and it has nothing to do with the easy availability of good falafel.I just watched Waltz with Bashir (an excellent movie, by the way), and was struck by the contemporaneity of the depiction of Israel's 1981 invasion of Labanon. The catch-all extension of "terrorist" was central to this feeling, I think. But I would go further and say that Israel is now, in many respects, the exemplar of the West, in the way that the US used to be, and Britain was before that. The striking difference is that previous exemplars have also been military hegemons, even if exemplarity and hegemony have not been completely synchronous. Isra