principally to highlight its limitations and insufficiencies. Sartre saw groups, not classes, as agents of change; he did not believe in a dialectics of nature. He had serious doubts about Marx as an economist and as the leader of a political party. For
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Professor John Dunn (Interviewed by Professor Lawrence Hamilton)
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? JD: Well, there used to be such a mechanism in this country. There used to be mass political parties. Mass political parties precisely operated in that way. If you turn political parties – as is the current practice – into quite small structures
Marcelo Hoffman
pastorate to these institutions by the end of the seventeenth century ( 2007: 197 ). Foucault exemplified this shift in part through a discussion of the metamorphosis of secret societies into political parties ( 2007: 198– 199 ). In this context, he
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Ezekiel S. Mkhwanazi
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The Future of Representative Politics
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Bernard Matolino
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From In-Itself to Practico-Inert
Freedom, Subjectivity and Progress
Kimberly S. Engels
political power, including the political parties and apparatuses of the working class. 19 He mentions, however, that the guardian could serve as a leader in a political party, which Sartre would consider a practico-inert social object, as long as the power
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’Tis but a Habit in an Unconsolidated Democracy
Habitual Voting, Political Alienation and Spectatorship
Anthony Lawrence A. Borja
attitude towards electoral competitiveness is a reaction to actual conditions of an unconsolidated democracy with an entrenched oligarchy and weak political parties. What the data above suggests is that the respondents separated the electoral process and