

The work of Ellen Meiksins Wood (EMW from now on) has come up several times in these debates. Some notes on Ellen Meiksins Wood's Democracy Against Capitalism AWL students (meetings, articles, more).On Guard (Sheffield rail workers) (bulletin).Notts Off the Rails (Nottingham rail workers) (bulletin).Off the Rails (national rail workers) (blog).Off the Rails (national rail workers) (bulletin).Tubeworker (London Underground) (bulletin).The contradictions of capitalist imperialism. Nation-states, classes, and universal capitalism. Left-intellectuals and contemporary capitalism. Modernity and the non-history of capitalism. The Enlightenment, Postmodernism, and the Post-‘New Left’. ‘Civil society’ and the devaluation of democracy. Liberal democracy and capitalist hegemony. From ancient to modern conceptions of citizenship. Labour and democracy, ancient and modern. ĥ. Democracy, Citizenship, Liberalism, and Civil Society. Political theory in history: an overview. Village and state, town and country, in democratic Athens. The emergence of the polis in ancient Athens. The nexus of freedom and slavery in democratic Athens. Īgricultural slavery and the peasant-citizen. Slavery and the ‘decline’ of the Roman Empire. Capitalism as the privatisation of political power. The ‘economic’ and the ‘political’ in capitalism. Introduction: The ‘Method’ of Ellen Meiksins Wood. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA.

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