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In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the
political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly
emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent
telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions
from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the
deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however,
scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a
series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume
deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other
interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East
German internationalism.
In keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the
political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly
emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent
telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions
from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola, and the
deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Ho Chi Minh, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
inspired public memorials. Despite their prominence, however,
scholars have rarely examined such displays in detail. Through a
series of illuminating historical investigations, this volume
deploys archival research, ethnography, and a variety of other
interdisciplinary tools to explore the rhetoric and reality of East
German internationalism.
Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they?
In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.
It was a project that changed the world, but was also undermined time and again by the relentless change and social injustice that accompanied it.
'Revelatory reading' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed 'After reading
historian Quinn Slobodian's new book, you are not likely to think
about capitalism the same way' Jacobin Look at a map of the world
and you'll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not
where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization
has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal
entities: tax havens, free ports, city-states, gated enclaves and
special economic zones. These new spaces are freed from ordinary
forms of regulation, taxation and mutual obligation - and with
them, ultracapitalists believe that it is possible to escape the
bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether. Historian
Quinn Slobodian follows the most notorious radical libertarians -
from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel - around the globe as they
search for the perfect home for their free market fantasy. The hunt
leads from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days
of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the medieval City
of London, and finally into the world's oceans and war zones,
charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where capitalism
and democracy can be finally uncoupled. Crack-Up Capitalism is a
propulsive history of the recent past, and an alarming view of our
near future.
It is often asserted that West German New Leftists "discovered the
Third World" in the pivotal decade of the 1960s. Quinn Slobodian
upsets that storyline by beginning with individuals from the Third
World themselves: students from Africa, Asia, and Latin America who
arrived on West German campuses in large numbers in the early
1960s. They were the first to mobilize German youth in protest
against acts of state violence and injustice perpetrated beyond
Europe and North America. The activism of the foreign students
served as a model for West German students, catalyzing social
movements and influencing modes of opposition to the Vietnam War.
In turn, the West Germans offered the international students
solidarity and safe spaces for their dissident engagements. This
collaboration helped the West German students to develop a more
nuanced, empathetic understanding of the Third World, not just as a
site of suffering, poverty, and violence, but also as the home of
politicized individuals with the capacity and will to speak in
their own names.
Contemporary art, as well as our society in general, is - according
to the diagnosis of the interdisciplinary art festival steirischer
herbst '21 - in a dead end. The Way Out of... features texts by
international contributors to the festival's discussion program
that outlines ways out of the white cube, failed political art, and
an unrestrained digital capitalism, and shows new paths for climate
justice, a more critical race theory, and new activists. Accessible
and pointedly written, this reader offers rich food for thought on
the multiple crises of our times.
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