Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-17 Thread Paolo Gerbaudo
 Hi everyone and thanks for the comments and questions: Brian: the spirit of the book is a mix of Polanyi and Hegel. In fact Polanyi's idea of second movement is very Hegelian. Obviously our situation is markedly different from what Polanyi witnessed in the 1930s. The similarity has to do

Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-15 Thread János Sugár
At 1:23 PM +0200 9/15/21, Andreas Broeckmann wrote: Dear David, please, fact-check; this is incorrect: the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in fact

Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-15 Thread d . garcia
Hi Andreas, many thanks for the detailed fact-check and yes I should have been more careful. I do recognise that calling the Commissioners "unelected" was simplistic given that there the EU parliament must approve the appointments presented to them. But if I am honest this generally seems

Re: On the return of the interventionist state 7 fact-check

2021-09-15 Thread Andreas Broeckmann
Dear David, please, fact-check; this is incorrect: > the most powerful decision-making body in the EU is > the European Commission is comprised of unelected officials You may see deficits in the following procedure, but there are in fact elections and democratic confirmations: "The

Re: On the return of the interventionist state

2021-09-15 Thread d . garcia
will be interested in. The key argument of the book is that we are moving away from neoliberalism and towards and neo-statism, a return of the interventionist state fundamentally concerned with issues of protection and security (in their manifold, regressive and progressive, manifestations). This neo-statism

Re: On the return of the interventionist state

2021-09-14 Thread Brian Holmes
2021 at 5:11 AM Paolo Gerbaudo wrote: > Dear All, > > I would like to share some ideas contained in my new Verso book The Great > Recoil, which I think some of you will be interested in. > > The key argument of the book is that we are moving away from neoliberalism > and towards

On the return of the interventionist state

2021-09-14 Thread Paolo Gerbaudo
Dear All, I would like to share some ideas contained in my new Verso book The Great Recoil, which I think some of you will be interested in. The key argument of the book is that we are moving away from neoliberalism and towards and neo-statism, a return of the interventionist state fundamentally