Deepika Swain
Biographic Data
| ID | 270298 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deepika Swain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deepika |
| FAMILY NAME | Swain |
| SIGNATURE | SWAIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Czech University of Life Sciences Prague |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3941-6973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On ‘The Real Movement Which Abolishes the Present State of Things’: Marxism and Prefigurative Politics
Prefigurative politics, the belief in and commitment to an identity or accord between present political action and a desired future (or between means and ends), has become a significant preoccupation of social movement theory and practice. Understood as demanding the deliberate implementation of future social relations in the present, it often appears as an explicit criticism of Marxism, even of strategic politics in general. For this reason it h…
Disaster utopia and the state: Success, failure and the fear of co-option
This article explores disaster utopias in relation to two interconnected questions regarding utopian and prefigurative political projects. The first question concerns assessments of success and failure: Disaster utopias complicate assessment in these terms because they appear more effective at achieving immediate practical goals than existing systems, while this very effectiveness raises the spectre of a distinct kind of failure , in the form of …
Marxian Ecology, Dialectics, and the Hierarchy of Needs
In this interview, originally published in the Czech journal Contradictions, John Bellamy Foster discusses the history of environmental thought among socialists from Marx to the present day, with a view to the need to mobilize in order to protect humanity's only home
Marxova ekologie, dialektika a hierarchie potřeb: Rozhovor Dana Swaina a Moniky Woźniak s Johnem Bellamy Fosterem
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Since the publication of his book Marx’s Ecology in 2000 he has become one of the most significant voices in uncovering Marx’s ecological thinking and developing ecological Marxism. In this interview we discuss his most recent work, the legacy of Soviet environmentalism, the long-running debate over “the dialectics of nature”, and the idea …
Marxian ecology, dialectics, and the hierarchy of needs: Interview with John Bellamy Foster by Dan Swain and Monika Woźniak
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Since the publication of his book Marx’s Ecology in 2000 he has become one of the most significant voices in uncovering Marx’s ecological thinking and developing ecological Marxism. In this interview we discuss his most recent work, the legacy of Soviet environmentalism, the long-running debate over “the dialectics of nature”, and the idea …
Prometheus humbled: Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettesse, Half-Earth socialism: A plan to save the future from extinction, climate change and pandemics; The Salvage Collective, The tragedy of the worker…
Kontradikce Časopis pro kritické myšlení Ročník 6 číslo
Slovo úvodem: Ekosocialismus v Postkomunistickém Prostoru
Kontradikce Časopis pro kritické myšlení Ročník 6 číslo
None so Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation
"In None so Fit to Break the Chains Dan Swain offers an interpretation of Marx's ethics that foregrounds his commitment to working class self-emancipation and uses it as a guiding thread to interpret a number of different aspects of Marx's ethical thought. This commitment is frequently overlooked in discussions of Marx's ethics, but it deeply influenced his criticism of capitalism, his approach towards an alternative, and his conception of his ow…
Marking time, or Stalin and the metronome: Enzo Traverso, Left wing melancholia; Michael Löwy, Redemption and Utopia: Jewish libertarian thought in Central Europe: A study in elective affinity
Th is text looks at the early Communist intellectual movement in Slovakia (in an area that, for part of the time under discussion, was affi liated with the the Hungarian Soviet Republic) organized around the journal Kassai Munkás (Th e Košice Worker).By placing this movement in the context of the development of Western Marxism and the incipient Marxist aesthetics of György Lukács, who was among those who published in the journal, the paper charac…
Not Not but Not yet: Present and Future in Prefigurative Politics
Prefigurative politics, the idea of ‘building the new world in the shell of the old’, increasingly forms part of the common sense of radical social and political movements but deserves more careful conceptual analysis. Traditionally, such ideas have been discussed in contrast to ‘strategic’ politics, but this has been challenged by recent scholarship, which has stressed that they can and should be seen as strategic. This article agrees but points…
Alienation, or Why Capitalism is Bad for Us
This chapter considers the significance of Marx’s concept of alienation to his overall criticism of capitalism. At the concept’s core is the idea that while labor is potentially a fulfilling and liberating activity, under capitalism it appears only as a hostile, dominating force. Workers thus experience their own activity, natural and built environments, and fellow human beings as alien and hostile. While this idea has been deeply influential, it…
Justice as fetish: Marx, Pashukanis, and the form of justice
Th is article considers the relevance of the ideas of Soviet jurist Evgeny Pashukanis for debates about the relationship between Marxism and justice. In particular, it employs these ideas as a criticism of those who seek to supplement Marx’s critique of capitalism with liberal theories of justice, paradigmatically those of John Rawls. Pashukanis’s analysis of the legal form as a kind of fetish, arising on the basis of capitalist relations of prod…
Velvet revolutions: An oral history of Czech society
Not Not but Not yet: Present and Future in Prefigurative Politics
Prefigurative politics, the idea of ‘building the new world in the shell of the old’, increasingly forms part of the common sense of radical social and political movements but deserves more careful conceptual analysis. Traditionally, such ideas have been discussed in contrast to ‘strategic’ politics, but this has been challenged by recent scholarship, which has stressed that they can and should be seen as strategic. This article agrees but points…
Velvet revolutions: An oral history of Czech society
Alienation, or Why Capitalism is Bad for Us
This chapter considers the significance of Marx’s concept of alienation to his overall criticism of capitalism. At the concept’s core is the idea that while labor is potentially a fulfilling and liberating activity, under capitalism it appears only as a hostile, dominating force. Workers thus experience their own activity, natural and built environments, and fellow human beings as alien and hostile. While this idea has been deeply influential, it…
Justice as fetish: Marx, Pashukanis, and the form of justice
Th is article considers the relevance of the ideas of Soviet jurist Evgeny Pashukanis for debates about the relationship between Marxism and justice. In particular, it employs these ideas as a criticism of those who seek to supplement Marx’s critique of capitalism with liberal theories of justice, paradigmatically those of John Rawls. Pashukanis’s analysis of the legal form as a kind of fetish, arising on the basis of capitalist relations of prod…
None so Fit to Break the Chains: Marx's Ethics of Self-Emancipation
"In None so Fit to Break the Chains Dan Swain offers an interpretation of Marx's ethics that foregrounds his commitment to working class self-emancipation and uses it as a guiding thread to interpret a number of different aspects of Marx's ethical thought. This commitment is frequently overlooked in discussions of Marx's ethics, but it deeply influenced his criticism of capitalism, his approach towards an alternative, and his conception of his ow…
Marking time, or Stalin and the metronome: Enzo Traverso, Left wing melancholia; Michael Löwy, Redemption and Utopia: Jewish libertarian thought in Central Europe: A study in elective affinity
Th is text looks at the early Communist intellectual movement in Slovakia (in an area that, for part of the time under discussion, was affi liated with the the Hungarian Soviet Republic) organized around the journal Kassai Munkás (Th e Košice Worker).By placing this movement in the context of the development of Western Marxism and the incipient Marxist aesthetics of György Lukács, who was among those who published in the journal, the paper charac…
Not Not but Not yet: Present and Future in Prefigurative Politics
Prefigurative politics, the idea of ‘building the new world in the shell of the old’, increasingly forms part of the common sense of radical social and political movements but deserves more careful conceptual analysis. Traditionally, such ideas have been discussed in contrast to ‘strategic’ politics, but this has been challenged by recent scholarship, which has stressed that they can and should be seen as strategic. This article agrees but points…
Marxova ekologie, dialektika a hierarchie potřeb: Rozhovor Dana Swaina a Moniky Woźniak s Johnem Bellamy Fosterem
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Since the publication of his book Marx’s Ecology in 2000 he has become one of the most significant voices in uncovering Marx’s ecological thinking and developing ecological Marxism. In this interview we discuss his most recent work, the legacy of Soviet environmentalism, the long-running debate over “the dialectics of nature”, and the idea …
Marxian ecology, dialectics, and the hierarchy of needs: Interview with John Bellamy Foster by Dan Swain and Monika Woźniak
John Bellamy Foster is editor of the Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. Since the publication of his book Marx’s Ecology in 2000 he has become one of the most significant voices in uncovering Marx’s ecological thinking and developing ecological Marxism. In this interview we discuss his most recent work, the legacy of Soviet environmentalism, the long-running debate over “the dialectics of nature”, and the idea …
Prometheus humbled: Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettesse, Half-Earth socialism: A plan to save the future from extinction, climate change and pandemics; The Salvage Collective, The tragedy of the worker…
Kontradikce Časopis pro kritické myšlení Ročník 6 číslo
Slovo úvodem: Ekosocialismus v Postkomunistickém Prostoru
Kontradikce Časopis pro kritické myšlení Ročník 6 číslo
Marxian Ecology, Dialectics, and the Hierarchy of Needs
In this interview, originally published in the Czech journal Contradictions, John Bellamy Foster discusses the history of environmental thought among socialists from Marx to the present day, with a view to the need to mobilize in order to protect humanity's only home
Disaster utopia and the state: Success, failure and the fear of co-option
This article explores disaster utopias in relation to two interconnected questions regarding utopian and prefigurative political projects. The first question concerns assessments of success and failure: Disaster utopias complicate assessment in these terms because they appear more effective at achieving immediate practical goals than existing systems, while this very effectiveness raises the spectre of a distinct kind of failure , in the form of …
On ‘The Real Movement Which Abolishes the Present State of Things’: Marxism and Prefigurative Politics
Prefigurative politics, the belief in and commitment to an identity or accord between present political action and a desired future (or between means and ends), has become a significant preoccupation of social movement theory and practice. Understood as demanding the deliberate implementation of future social relations in the present, it often appears as an explicit criticism of Marxism, even of strategic politics in general. For this reason it h…
Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works)