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Introduction to ‘Britain versus France: How Many Sonderwegs?’
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In memoriam of the late Ellen Meiksins Wood, the authors remember the main achievements of her forty years of work and introduce one of her contributions, ‘Britain versus France: How Many Sonderwegs?’, until now unavailable in an anglophone publication and reprinted in the present issue.Abstract:
In memoriam of the late Ellen Meiksins Wood, this piece firstly remembers the main achievements of her forty years of work. Secondly, it introduces one of her contributions, ‘Britain versus France: How Many Sonderwegs?’, until now unavailable in an anglophone publication and reprinted in the present issue. This contribution is a useful reformulation of her arguments concerning radical historicity, the concept of ‘bourgeois revolution’, and the specificity of French and British state formation and their political revolutions – in contrast to arguments for a German Sonderweg as an explanation for the rise of fascism. Wood also provides a fruitful illustration of how to apply a social-property relations approach to the development of the rule of law in each of these states, and thus furthers opportunities for debates on the potential of Political Marxism for understanding contemporary class struggles over rights.read more
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The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States.
TL;DR: Wood argues that what is supposed to have epitomized bourgeois modernity, especially the emergence of a'modern' state and political culture in Continental Europe, signaled the persistence of precapitalist social property relations as mentioned in this paper.
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‘My Capitalism Is Bigger than Yours!’: Against Combining ‘How the West Came to Rule’ with ‘The Origins of Capitalism’
TL;DR: Anievas and Nisancioglu as mentioned in this paper present a history of international relations that trades off methodological openness and legal complexity for a structural and exclusive consequentialism driven by anti-Eurocentrism.
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The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
TL;DR: In this article, the author pointed out that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce.
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1648 söylencesi : sınıf, jeopolitik ve modern uluslararası ilişkilerin kuruluşu = The myth of 1648 : class, geopolitics, and the making of modern international relations
TL;DR: In this paper, Teschke argues that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years' War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states.
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Democracy against Capitalism: The separation of the ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ in capitalism
TL;DR: In particular, there has been a tendency to perpetuate the rigid conceptual separation of the 'economic' and 'political' which has served capitalist ideology so well ever since the classical economists discovered the 'economy' in the abstract and began emptying capitalism of its social and political content as discussed by the authors.
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How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defend a renovated concept of bourgeois revolution and show how our globalized societies are the result of a contested, turbulent history marked by often forceful revolutions directed against old social orders, from the Dutch Revolt to the English and American Civil Wars and beyond.