A Review of Lu Xun and Trotsky: ‘Literature and Revolution’ in China by Nagahori Yūzō Gregor Benton School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University Benton@cardiff.ac.uk Abstract Lu Xun was a giant of modern Chinese literature and a fellow-traveller of the Chinese Communists, to whom he saw no alternative at a time of rampant fascism
A Review of Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort, edited by Raffaele Laudani Mike Makin-Waite Independent Researcher mike@processnorth.co.uk Abstract The following is a review of a book which surveys the work of Herbert Marcuse and other members of the Frankfurt School when they were employed by the United
A Review of India, Modernity and the Great Divergence by Kaveh Yazdani Shami Ghosh Centre for Medieval Studies/Department of History, University of Toronto shami.ghosh@utoronto.ca Abstract In India, Modernity and the Great Divergence, Kaveh Yazdani presents a compelling argument that with regard to certain technologies, agricultural productivity, financial systems and the rise of a merchant
As the Lebanese revolutionary uprising enters its third month, the ancien regime has already unleashed counterrevolutionary practices in all its forms. Fear-mongering of pre-October 17 sectarian tensions alongside blaming the impending economic collapse on the continuous protests and reviving the specter of the civil war is rife on Lebanese TV channels as members of the
A Review of Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion by Gareth Stedman Jones William Clare Roberts Department of Political Science, McGill University william.roberts3@mcgill.ca Abstract Despite the stated aim of this new biography to restore Marx to his original condition, Stedman Jones repeatedly misreads Marx’s arguments. He misidentifies or misconstrues the context relevant for many of Marx’s
A Review of Begegnungen mit Don Quijote. Ausgewählte Schriften by Karl Schmückle Kaan Kangal Department of Philosophy, Nanjing University, China kaankangal@gmail.com Abstract This is a review-essay on Werner Röhr’s 2014 edition of fourteen essays by Karl Schmückle in a volume entitled Begegnungen mit Don Quijote [Encounters with Don Quichotte]. Schmückle was one of
A Review of Time in Marx by Stavros Tombazos, Time, Capitalism and Alienation by Jonathan Martineau, and Marx After Marx by Harry Harootunian George Tomlinson Brunel University gstomlins@gmail.com Abstract Three recently published books, by Stavros Tombazos, Jonathan Martineau, and Harry Harootunian, join a now established body of literature that highlights the temporal aspects
The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham has organised a one-day workshop Revisiting the ‘Mode of Production’: Enduring Controversies over Labour, Exploitation and Historiographies of Capitalism on the 1st July 2019. The event was dedicated to the re-examination of two important debates in historical materialism related
Pepijn Brandon If you get nauseated by the perverse state of contemporary world politics and the slavish way in which mainstream media help to sustain the spectacle that is Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Rodrigo Duterte or their local variants, here is the perfect antidote: read Marx’s journalistic articles for the New York Daily Tribune. Marx
A Review of Contemporary Trotskyism by John Kelly, and Against the Grain, edited by Evan Smith and Matthew Worley Sean Ledwith York College sledwith@yorkcollege.ac.uk Abstract This review-essay contends that Trotskyism is an essential ingredient of the reconfiguration of the British left underway in the era of Corbynism. Followers of the tradition inaugurated by Trotsky have
A Democracy of Forms: Levine, Latour and the New Formalism A Review of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network by Caroline Levine Carolyn Lesjak Department of English, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia clesjak@sfu.ca Abstract Caroline Levine’s Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network proposes a new model of formalist criticism able to attend to the range of
We are extremely sad to be sharing the news that Kevin Floyd, a path-breaking theorist of queer Marxism and Professor at Kent State University, has died. Kevin was the author of The Reification of Desire: Towards a Queer Marxism (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) as well as a large number of articles and chapters that
