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EuCAPT White Paper: Opportunities and Challenges for Theoretical Astroparticle Physics in the Next Decade
Astroparticle physics is undergoing a profound transformation, due to a
series of extraordinary new results, such as the discovery of high-energy
cosmic neutrinos with IceCube, the direct detection of gravitational waves with
LIGO and Virgo, and many others. This white paper is the result of a
collaborative effort that involved hundreds of theoretical astroparticle
physicists and cosmologists, under the coordination of the European Consortium
for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT). Addressed to the whole astroparticle physics
community, it explores upcoming theoretical opportunities and challenges for
our field of research, with particular emphasis on the possible synergies among
different subfields, and the prospects for solving the most fundamental open
questions with multi-messenger observations.Comment: White paper of the European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory
(EuCAPT). 135 authors, 400 endorsers, 133 pages, 1382 reference
Democratic dictatorship: political legitimacy in Marxist perspective
This article aims to contextualise, explain and defend the relevance of Marx’s analysis of the dictatorship of the proletariat for contemporary debates on political legitimacy. I call my reconstruction of the Marxist contribution to this debate: the limited legitimacy theory of political authority. Such a theory, I contend, offers a plausible alternative to existing liberal and anarchist accounts and has important implications for a number of key debates in political theory, including the normative significance of the state, the relationship between authority and freedom, the role of democracy, and the meaning and relevance of communist utopia