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Tag: 2016

Election 2016: moving us towards Ireland’s ‘new left’ moment?

Posted on February 27, 2016March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

It’s been called a political ‘earthquake’, ‘avalanche’, ‘volcano’ of greater significance than the dramatic results of the 2011 election. Many are left scratching their heads as to what the results of Election 2016 tell us about what is happening to the Irish party political system. In seeking to assess its meaning, the important first point is to place it in the context of longer-term shifts as no one election on its own is sufficient to…

Election 2016: Trading on ignorance and make-believe

Posted on February 6, 2016March 26, 2019 by peadarkirby

About the one certainty we can take from the first days of election 2016 is that it is far from being a coronation of Enda Kenny and Fine Gael. Already under pressure from the virtually meaningless concept of ‘fiscal space’, the Irish Times opinion poll showing a drop in the party’s support set the entirely wrong mood music for the party. It all serves to enhance the spectacle of politics as spectator sport. Nothing happened…

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Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis: Transforming Market Society in the Era of Climate Change

Has politics reached breaking point? Rather than defending liberalism or abandoning it, how can a socially just and ecological alternative be built? My new book investigates the causes of our current multifaceted global crisis by drawing on the work of Karl Polanyi. This book explores Polanyi’s theory that social disruptions result from the attempt to run society according to the rules of the market. Drawing on these ideas, it outlines pathways towards an alternative future that overcome weaknesses in Marxism. Linking the ecological, political and socio-economic crises, The book identifies that an alternative socio-ecological model is emerging, consistent with the insights of Polanyi. Karl Polanyi and the Contemporary Political Crisis is being published in early December 2020 and is a contribution to key debates on the future of politics, on the low-carbon transition, on automation and on the emerging world order

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