CUNY Academic Commons | Mark Drury | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/drurymark/activity/ Activity feed for Mark Drury. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 94e2273526719bdd45e8142022303547 Mark Drury joined the group Middle Eastern Studies Organization (MESO) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/424783/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:04:23 -0500 ac6d8078e90dab665ea54dd185c7fd23 Mark Drury changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/224221/ Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:07:26 -0400 6773b1c88a73bea676b1f19943c9a6fd Mark Drury wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/11/12/1025-notes-on-lenins-the-state-and-revolution/ Sun, 13 Nov 2011 01:16:19 -0500 Lenin’s The State and Revolution , is a historically- and theoretically-engaged work that provides extraordinary analytical clarity regarding state power.  Writing against the liberal conceptions that consider the state above society, an impartial entity that reconciles class antagonism, Lenin asserts that the state, as a manifestation of irreconcilable class antagonism, is necessarily the dictatorship of a single […]

]]> d7929b44a0a5f9da473ca935787cb765 Mark Drury wrote a new post on the site Law, Justice, and Global Political Futures http://sovereignty.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/10/916-discussion-of-marxs-on-the-jewish-question/ Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:36:40 -0400 I. Recap of last year, and some notes on the reading Last year at this time, reading Kant’s Perpetual Peace initiated a yearlong discussion around the tension between international law and sovereignty. Kant’s political theory of constitutional forms entailing overlapping rights and duties was our departure point, in some ways, to a series of subsequent conversations on […]

]]> 785c4bd43066b81b29efe6b577046619 Mark Drury wrote a new post on the site GC Marxist Reading Group http://capital.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2011/09/11/notes-on-the-necessity-of-studying-the-state/ Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:50:27 -0400 In the course of last year’s discussion, the state frequently emerged as an important factor in understanding capitalism’s tendency toward generating both crisis and imperialism.  Recognizing the state’s imbrication in processes of capital accumulation and destruction, however, does little to clarify our analytical understanding of the relationship between capital, social formations and political authority. Lenin’s […]

]]> 45ccf7d4b98d4b03eff4fc13be7e8829 Mark Drury became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/54450/ Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:36:40 -0400