by Mike Hill and Warren Montag In ‘The Old Adam, After All: A Review of The Other Adam Smith by Mike Hill and Warren Montag’ https://brill.com/abstract/journals/hima/26/3/article-p243_12.xml,Christian Thorne is perplexed, even offended, that we would call our book The Other Adam Smith. For him, the other Adam Smith already exists: it is the humanist reaction to the
As the Sudanese uprising enters its most critical conjuncture, with negotiations between the military council and the Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change collapsing, and the latter announcing a country-wide strike, Elia El Khazen interviews three Sudanese comrades in order to better situate the Sudanese uprising and understand future prospects. Originally posted in
by David McNally It has become clear that the Marxist critique of the state is once again in disfavour in many parts of the left. Sometimes this disfavour disguises wholesale political accommodation to the nation-state (e.g., with those on the left who oppose calls for open borders and smuggle in some kind of ostensibly “left”
The Sanders Antinomies: Strategic Questions for Uncertain Times Michael Bray Debates amongst socialists about Bernie Sanders’s candidacy have, already, a kind of formulaic, antinomical character, both sides of which can lay claim to more or less true, but also relatively abstracted, arguments. For the most part, these debates, picking up from 2016, center on the
KARL LIEBKNECHT AND ROSA LUXEMBURG[1] Grigorii Zinoviev Translated, edited and introduced by Clayton Black Three days after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht in January, 1919, Grigorii Zinoviev, chair of the Petrograd soviet, delivered to that body the following tribute. The murders in Berlin heightened the sense of vulnerability among the Bolsheviks, and
by Hernán Ouviña (translated by Nicolas Allen) *The following is an excerpt from Rosa Luxemburgo y la reinvención de la política. Una lectura desde América Latina, scheduled for publication on January 15th by Editorial El Colectivo and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (Argentina). Rosa Luxemburg, like many before her, considered the appropriation of surplus-value by the
Originally published at https://www.laizquierdadiario.com/Para-Althusser-la-filosofia-debe-sacudir-las-cosas There has been increasing interest in Althusser’s work in recent years. This has included different attempts to provide a more complex and comprehensive view of the development of his thought, as well a greater emphasis on the “the late Althusser”. From your perspective, what are the reasons for the renewed interest
Originally published in French in Période Verso has just republished your first book The Philosophy of Praxis. Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School, which is a study of the Lukácsian sources of a critical Marxism extending up to Adorno and Marcuse. Could you briefly retrace this genealogy and explain how it has been important for your
Hans Hautmann (1943–2018) on the Austrian council movement and why it was so much stronger than its counterpart on the other side of the German-Austrian border. One of, if not the most significant historians of the Austrian workers’ movement, Hans Hautmann, died on 3 July 2018. Born in August 1943 to Leopoldine and Rudolf Hautmann,
Apart from being a very productive scholar, you have also been engaged in political debates and activism, for example as part of the academic advisory council of Attac. Which experiences and events politicized you, and which role has political activism played throughout your life and career? I do not think of myself as a political
Avoiding Sundays on the Long March Against ‘Correct’-Line Marxism: A Reply to Beverley Best[1] by Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty Beverley Best’s article in Historical Materialism journal carries the strange title ‘Political Economy through the Looking Glass: Imagining Six Impossible Things About Finance Before Breakfast’. Whatever such a paper may be about, its implicit claims
DOUG ENAA GREENE, Communist Insurgent: Blanqui’s Politics of Revolution, Chicago: Haymarket, 2017[1] Reviewed by Ian Birchall If the name Blanqui is still quite widely known, the man behind the name remains obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that “Blanquism” is “the doctrine that socialist revolution must be initiated by a small conspiratorial group, advocated by
