Classical bourgeois political theory articulated the political revolution that established possessive individualism as the basis of legitimate government and the foundation of civil society. In this respect, it inaugurated the systematic investigation of the objective rules governing subjective human existence. The work of Thomas Hobbes and of John Locke, like classical political economy and mo...

I have been as puzzled about this comment as Zavadsky was about my writings. What I was puzzled about was, which of my ideas or concepts were considered by Zavadsky to be so close to those of the dialectical materialists. I have been wondering about this for the past 30 years and I think I have gradually come close to an answer. In this I have been helped by a number of publications, particular...

This paper argues that despite a growing body of scholarly literature on Sir James Steuart, his theory of history and influence on Marxian political economy has been largely ignored. The approach of this paper is motivated, in part, by Marx’s sympathetic treatment of Steuart found in the opening of his Theories of Surplus Value, and in scattered asides throughout the remainder of his work. We a...

Students of social evolution are concerned not only with the general course it has followed, but also with the mechanisms that have brought it about. One such mechanism comes into play when the quantitative increase in some entity, usually population, reaching a certain threshold, gives rise to a qualitative change in the structure of a society. This mechanism, first recognized by Hegel, was se...

O objetivo deste artigo consiste em propor uma hipótese explicativa para o autoritarismo contemporâneo no Brasil que leve conta de modo consequente as especificidades da nossa cultura e história. Para tanto, problematizar propostas interpretativas baseadas reedição brasileira do fascismo italiano, iniciaremos discutindo problema repetição na história a função heurística passado nacional explica...

La derrota de la perspectiva revolucionaria y concejil del movimiento obrero permitirá expansión derecho trabajo, que será entendido como una forma eficaz integración social los trabajadores en las sociedades capitalistas fuertemente tensionadas a principios siglo veinte. Clave esa el denominado Laboratorio Weimar, donde confluirán un puñado autores ensayarán fórmulas jurídicas políticas serán ...