Tag: History
After the Last Word
Ryan Breeden reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx’s Revolutionary Roads,” arguing that the book is a valuable step in an ongoing march of theoretical contestation.
Germany 1923
Part two of Sean Larson’s reconstruction of the failed German Revolution of 1923 and the episode’s lessons for revolutionaries today.
Germany 1923
Part one of Sean Larson’s reconstruction of the failed German Revolution of 1923 and the episode’s lessons for revolutionaries today.
Materialism and the Crisis of Marxism
What philosophical form corresponds to mass struggles? Arguing against a monistic Marxism, Darren Rosso continues the debate about Fluss and Frim’s reclamation of Enlightenment rationality.
The City of Blind Windows
The secret of New York is that it is held together with duct tape and screaming. Is the city so far gone that we can never get it back?
Mexico’s Ejido Experiment
Richard Velázquez Perales shows that, while Mexico’s ejidos offer more liberated relations of productionm, they cannot resolve rural inequalities on their own.
Revolution in Our Lifetime
Phil Kaplan reviews M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072.
Ukraine’s Geopolitical Precarity
John-Paul Himka argues that, without the European Union or the United States Russia, fills the regional political void in the Ukraine.
Weimar’s Marxist Heretic
Karl Korsch stood out as one of the most original revolutionary Marxists of Weimar Berlin’s leftist intelligentsia
Critical Limits of the “New” History of Capitalism
James Parisot critically engages Jonathan Levy’s new history of American capitalism and interrogates the politics of the so-called “new history of capitalism”?