Tag: Marxism

The Problem with ‘Lived Experience’: Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, Ideology

Arguments from experience The ideas of psychoanalysis and its founder, Sigmund Freud, have long been assimilated into both popular culture and academic discourse. This assimilation has been so comprehensive that in the Anglophone world—though not necessarily elsewhere—these ideas have been relegated to the status of historical relics, discredited museum pieces that have been replaced by […]

Identity Crisis: Radical Gender Theory and the Left

The idea that there is no significant relationship between sex and gender carries with it an assumption about human beings that should strike those on the material Left as a challenge to an idea of freedom without which ‘the Left’ as a political entity would never have come into being at all…

New Realities, New Politics, by Alison Caddick

Arena Magazine changes its masthead

Reconfiguring Nature, by Alison Caddick

Vale Geoff Sharp, 5 May 1926–7 June 2015

Reflection on a Time

by Alison Caddick

Challenging the Mining Elites

The implications for the capitalist economy and Australia’s mining in the face of Climate Change by Conal Thwaite