A Review of Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman Eric Loefflad Department of Law, University of Kent edl4@kent.ac.uk Abstract While the Sino-Soviet spilt may have been one of the largest Left political schisms in history, comprehensive analysis of it is relatively rare. In this review-essay on Jeremy Friedman’s
A Review of Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross Massimiliano Tomba Department of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz mtomba@ucsc.edu Abstract Kristin Ross’s book on the Paris Commune points simultaneously in two directions, one historical, the other political. It is a political intervention that goes back to
A Review of The Concept of Nature in Marx by Alfred Schmidt,Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective by Paul Burkett,Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm, andLiving Factories: Biotechnology and the Unique Nature of Capitalism by Kenneth Fish Troy Vettese Weatherhead Center, Harvard University
Jairus Banaji Pedro Lemebel (1952–2015), Chilean performance artist, writer and queer activist who was twice fired from his job as a high-school art teacher for openly identifying as gay. In the eighties, Lemebel created a performance troupe that would disrupt public events to dramatise issues of oppression. One of the most notorious of these public
By Jeffery R. Webber Running on the ticket of the little-known Social Liberal Party (PSL) in Brazil’s general election last October, the virtually unknown Jair Bolsonaro, a former army captain and marginal congressperson representing a Rio de Janeiro riding since the early 1990s, promised to be tough on crime and corruption.[1] Cultivating an outsider persona,
–translated by Joel Ruggi Interview by Mariana Bayle and Nicolas Allen A year after the historic election that brought Andrés Manuel López Obrador to power, the first tentative balance sheets of his Morena administration are starting to appear. López Obrador’s approval ratings remain high, around 70% by recent reports. And the discontent that does exist
Panagiotis Sotiris 1. The general election of July 7 in Greece represents a major defeat for the subaltern classes in Greece, but also for the radical left. However, it would be wrong to assume that defeat was something that occurred on the day of the election. Rather, this is the result of a series of
Pepijn Brandon The sudden appearance of the land-question in the debates between the two contenders in the recent Indonesian presidential elections remind us that struggles over landownership run as a red thread through the history of capitalism.[1] Despite the enormous changes in the relationship between capital accumulation and peasant economies, there is an enduring aspect
Pepijn Brandon The question of the role of violence in capitalist expansion, both historically and in the present, has engaged many of the system’s critics. Discussions on this topic have always revolved around the question how capital exploits, and subjects to its logic, elements that lie beyond the capitalist process of production and circulation as
Pepijn Brandon In the final part of Capital, Volume I on “the so-called original accumulation”, Marx gives a dazzling overview of the often violent historical phenomena that contributed to the birth of the capitalist system, “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.” Particularly striking to a historian of Dutch capitalism
Michael Heinrich is the author of a major, multi-volume biography on Karl Marx. The first volume appeared 2018 – to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Marx’s birth – and is being translated into English. Heinrich’s research on Marx has coincided with the project of collecting the known manuscripts of Marx and Engels into
Edited for publication by Daniel Lopez Frieder Otto Wolf taught political philosophy and the history of philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin and is a fellow at the Rosa-Luxemburg Foundation. He has for many years participated in the German debates over Marx’s theory. He is the author of Radikale Philosophie [Radical Philosophy] (2002) andRueckkehr in
