An Independent, Radical Academic Institute for Social Progress Main menu Post navigation The end of politics: Theses on the Crisis of the Regulatory System of the Commodity Form -- Robert Kurz Posted on October 10, 2012 We have decided to republish a series of essays by Robert Kurz as part of our online publication program, beginning with his essay The end of politics: theses on the crisis of the regulatory system of the commodity form. We ultimately feel that Robert's examination in this essay of the history of "politics" in relation to the "regulatory system" of "the modern commodity production system", is an exceptional analysis that contributes significantly to understanding and measuring the meaning of human progress in 21st Century society. Coinciding with our increasingly foundational and structural critique of capitalism -- one which is balanced ever more with our increasingly radical philosophy of the subject -- this essay, originally published in 1994, is a wonderful affirmation of the many theses currently being developed at Heathwood. It represents for myself more personally a clear example of contemporary critical theory in practice, as it highlights without recourse to the distortions of the modern political structure an analysis of the last days of 'politics' and its ultimate historical economic 'absorption' which, in terms of present-day society, has resulted in an era of democracy that is nothing "but the completed subjection to the subjectless logic of money". - R.C. Smith The End of Politics: Theses on the Crisis of the Regulatory System of