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I sent this to the list about five hours ago as a response to Louis' message 'Greece: towards a head-on crash' <http://www.marxmail.org/msg127661.html> It has apparently still not gone out on the list so i am trying it as a separate message: Mike Watson put this excellent article by Stathis Kouvelakis on his blog at Verso. The article is also on the International Viewpoint site at <http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article3858> where Kouvelakis is identified as "a member of the national leadership of Syriza." Elsewhere i have seen him identified as a member of the Syriza central committee. Of all the material about Syriza that we leftists have been reading lately, i've noticed strong appreciation for the long interview of Kouvelakis by Sebastian Budgen published in Jacobin <https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/01/phase-one>, "Greece: Phase One". Subtitled "Syriza is the Left’s best chance at success in a generation. But for socialists, the hard part starts after election day." Stathis Kouvelakis is on the faculty of Kings College, London, apparently in the Departments of both French and European & International Studies. I have read descriptions that he teaches philosophy but what he teaches is political theory: "French and European political thought His main research interests lie in Marx and Marxist tradition, German philosophy and recent critical theory. His recent research has focused on the formation of Marx’s political thought, the trajectory of the Young Hegelians and the critique of political liberalism. He also works on contemporary French politics and on the history of social protest in France. Kouvelakis is currently working on two books, the first on the time of politics, discussing the notions of temporality and decision in contemporary political thought, the second on the current state of Marxist theory. His long-term project includes a study of the formation of Marx’s theory in the (political, intellectual and cultural) context of the European 1848 revolutions and their aftermath. Dr Kouvelakis would welcome doctoral students interested in contemporary French thought; critique of cosmopolitan theories; Sartre; Marxist; or history of political and intellectual radicals." Some of his publications in English: The End of Europeanism Kouvelakis, S. 2012 Crisis in the Eurozone. Lapavitsas, C. (ed.). London: Verso, p. xiv-xxi Foreword THE GREEK CAULDRON Kouvelakis, S. Nov 2011 In : NEW LEFT REVIEW. 72, p. 17 - 32 Article The Greek Crisis-Politics, Economics, Ethics A Debate held at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck College, University of London, 5 May 2010 published in Lapavitsas, C., Featherstone, K., Bratsis, P., Kouvelakis, S. & Balibar, E. Oct 2010 In : JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES. 28, 2, p. 293 - 309 Lenin Reloaded: Towards a Politics of Truth Budgen, S. (ed.), Kouvelakis, S. (ed.) & Zizek, S. (ed.) 2007 Duke University Press. Lenin as Read of Hegel: Hypotheses for a Reading of Lenin's Notebooks on Hegel's The Science of Logic p. 164 - 204 The Marxian Critique: For A Rereading of 'On the Jewish Question' Kouvelakis, S. 2005 In : SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY. 104 , 4, p. 707 - 721 Philosophy and Revolution: From Kant to Marx Kouvelakis, S. 2003 London and New York: Verso. On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: > > By Mike Watson / 09 February 2015 > > In reality, the hard core of the Memorandums was swept away. The break with > austerity politics is effective. And Alexis Tsipras drove the point home in > several ways. First, he explicitly referred to the role of mobilisations in > Greece and to international solidarity, which he saluted emphatically, in > the battle that the government is waging. He was very firm that the > reestablishment of national and democratic sovereignty and of the dignity of > the Greek people are non-negotiable. In the current context, this is the > equivalent of calling on the people to take to the streets to demonstrate, > and I have no doubt that it will be heard both in Greece and in the rest of > Europe. > > full: http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/1849-greece-towards-a-head-on-crash _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
