Those on the left generally take one of four attitudes toward the European Union (EU).1 These are, of course, rarely found in absolutely pure form and there is inevitably some overlap.2 The first, which was central to the Remain vote in the United Kingdom, sees the EU as a largely [...]
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China in the Neoliberal World Order
My argument in the preceding posts has been that uneven and combined development is not only a universal phenomenon under conditions of capitalist modernity, but an ongoing one which will only cease when the last peasant has been pushed or pulled [...]
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Can we still discern the process of uneven and combined development in contemporary capitalism? A common theme on the left since the late 1980s in particular, more or less coincident with the consolidation of neoliberalism, has been the elimination of the non-synchronous or, in terms of this [...]
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In the third of his five pieces on Uneven and Combined Development, Neil Davidson looks at the application of the theory to England, Scotland, Germany and Japan before looking the Soviet transition to state capitalism.
Introduction
The discussions of modernity, modernism and [...]
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Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism and Revolution (2): Causes, Consequences, Constraints
In this second part to his series of five pieces for revolutionary reflections Neil Davidson explores the aesthetic and political dimensions of the theory of Uneven and Combined [...]
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Uneven and Combined Development: Modernity, Modernism, Revolution (1): The Classic Forms of Uneven and Combined Development
Trotsky’s theory of Uneven and Combined Development was born out of his experience of the Russian Revolution. To mark the centenary of the revolution, we [...]
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Neoliberalism represents a paradox for capitalism. Its relative success as a ruling-class strategy, particularly in weakening the trade union movement and reducing the share of profits going to labour, has helped to disguise that some aspects of this mode of regulation are proving [...]
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