Schedule European Summer University 2022

Bourgeois democracy is in crisis in many places; authoritarian-populist, nationalist and fascist forces are gaining momentum; new authoritarian forms of rule and states are emerging. In this workshop we will discuss these developments and emancipatory counter-strategies.

In the current multiple crisis, capitalist rule seems to be hardening to the extent that the hegemony of the capitalist class is disappearing. Bourgeois democracy is in crisis in many places; authoritarian-populist, nationalist and fascist forces are gaining momentum; new forms of rule and states are emerging that cannot be described at all or only inadequately with the outdated concepts of authoritarian statism, exceptionalism, Bonapartism, fascism; these new state forms require their own analysis. The workshop will discuss these developments and emancipatory counter-strategies.