A spectre is haunting capitalism. It is the spectre of socialism for the 21st century. Increasingly, the characteristics of this spectre are becoming clear, and we are able to see enough to understand what it is not. The only thing that is not clear at this point is whether the spectre is [...]

The crucial conceptual blockage that prevented this new historical moment from being seen in its proper perspective at the time can of course be traced to the symbolic “death of Marxism” identified with the collapse of the Soviet bloc. A theoretical critique that dealt with the global transformations taking place at the end of the [...]