As part of Term 2 of the 2014 Greek History and Culture Seminars hosted by the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria, the lecture ‘The life and thought of Nicos Poulantzas’ will be given by Professor Vrasidas Karalis.
Nicos Poulantzas was a Greek-French Marxist political sociologist. In the 1970s he was known, along with Louis Althusser, as a leading Structural Marxist and eventually a proponent of eurocommunism.
He is best known for his theoretical work on the state, but also offered Marxist contributions to the analysis of fascism, social class in the contemporary world and the collapse of dictatorships in Southern Europe in the 1970s (Franco’s rule in Spain, Salazar’s in Portugal, and Papadopoulos’ in Greece).
When: Thursday 17 July at 7.00 pm
Where: Ithacan Philanthropic Society building, Level 2, 329 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne
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