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Fascism as a Mass Movement: Translator's Introduction
AbstractThis Introduction to Rosenbergâs essay starts with a brief synopsis of his life, then summarises the key arguments of the essay itself before looking briefly at the twin issues of the social base of the fascist parties (wider than just the âpetty bourgeoisieâ) and the passive complicity/compliance of âordinary Germansâ, as the literature now terms whole sectors of the civilian population that were defined by their apathy or moral indifference to the horrors of the Nazi state.</jats:sec
P-matrices and signed digraphs
We associate a signed digraph with a list of matrices whose dimensions permit
them to be multiplied, and whose product is square. Cycles in this graph have a
parity, that is, they are either even (termed e-cycles) or odd (termed
o-cycles). The absence of e-cycles in the graph is shown to imply that the
matrix product is a P0-matrix, i.e., all of its principal minors are
nonnegative. Conversely, the presence of an e-cycle is shown to imply that
there exists a list of matrices associated with the graph whose product fails
to be a P0-matrix. The results generalise a number of previous results relating
P- and P0-matrices to graphs
Seasons of Self-Delusion: Opium, Capitalism and the Financial Markets (2012 Deutscher Memorial Lecture)
AbstractTo grasp current trends within capitalism without abandoning the framework of MarxâsCapitalwe need to return to the category of âfictitious capitalâ and make it central to our explanations. Based on the 2012 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Lecture, this essay combines reflections on Marxâs account of âfictitious capitalâ; an investigation of the role of bills of exchange; and an analysis of the recent turmoil in British and US banking. It looks at the way the opium trade, financed through the London bill market, integrated a constellation of interests in the City with the labour of peasant households in India as parts of a unified accumulation process. Opium was vital to the fortunes of British capitalism for most of the nineteenth century. The merchant banks that were the mainstay of Britainâs form of capitalism were also the key element in the re-emergence of global finance in the postwar period. The concluding part of the paper deals with the current banking crisis and follows Hilferding in arguing that by providing liquidity to the markets for fictitious capital, speculation plays a crucial role in sustaining profitability for the bigger capitals.</jats:sec
Graph-theoretic conditions for injectivity of functions on rectangular domains
This paper presents sufficient graph-theoretic conditions for injectivity of
collections of differentiable functions on rectangular subsets of R^n. The
results have implications for the possibility of multiple fixed points of maps
and flows. Well-known results on systems with signed Jacobians are shown to be
easy corollaries of more general results presented here.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
Everyday racism and "my tram experience": emotion, civic performance and learning on YouTube
Does the public expression and performance of shock, distress, anger, frustration and ideological disapproval of particular sorts of politics constitute a form of collective political expression from which individuals can learn about being citizens When it comes to the expression of feelings of racial and other types of prejudice, has political correctness led to a deepening of entrenched racist beliefs with no channel for discussion This article engages with such questions through a case study of YouTube responses to «My Tram Experience» a commuter-uploaded mobile-phone video of a racist diatribe on a tram in the UK. Using qualitative content analysis and thematic analysis, it describes how these performed, networked and distributed moments of citizen angst demonstrate a limited but interesting range of civic engagements with and positionings towards racism, immigration, class and nationalism. For one reason or another these are not allowed to occur in other public for a such as the mainstream media or schools. The article argues that these vlogs are both a wide-ranging potentially therapeutic resource for those needing validation for their racist or anti-racist views, or for those who wish to express and garner solidarity for discomfort and pain caused by racism; they are also a significant though currently uncurated resource for citizenship education both formal and informal because of their engagements with technology, social context, emotional context and political rhetoric
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