A Review of Estrategia Socialista y Arte Militar [Socialist Strategy and the Art of War] by Emilio Albamonte and Matías Maiello Panagiotis Sotiris Hellenic Open University, Greece panagiotis.sotiris@gmail.com Emilio Albamonte and Matías Maiello, (2017) Estrategia Socialista y Arte Militar, Buenos Aires: Ediciones IPS. Introduction Within Marxism, there has been a long tradition of discussing strategy
A Review of Women and Work by Susan Ferguson Maud Perrier SPAIS Gender Research Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol, UK Maud.Perrier@bristol.ac.uk Abstract This article discusses Susan Ferguson’s Women and Work and how it advances contemporary debates about social reproduction within and beyond Marxist feminism. In particular, I emphasise its call
A Review of Sex and the Failed Absolute by Slavoj Žižek I wish to thank Conrad Hamilton for inspiring some of these ruminations. Matt McManus Department of Politics, Whitman College, Washington, USA mattmcmanus300@gmail.com Abstract Sex and the Failed Absolute constitutes the most systematic and rigorous account of Zizek’s resuscitation of dialectical materialism thus far. It
A Review of The Myth of Mao Zedong and Modern Insurgency by Francis Grice Alex de Jong International Institute for Research and Education, Amsterdam, The Netherlands alexdejong@iire.org Abstract Mao Zedong’s writings on insurgent war have had an international impact. In the book under review, Grice attempts to show that these writings not only
The Working Class and Capital: The Dialectic of Struggle, Accumulation and Breakdown [1980] Rohini Hensman Preface The discussions within and between groups in Bombay, Delhi and Bangalore which resulted in the formation of the Communist Platform Tendency in 1977 included a critique of the idea that a vanguard party was necessary for carrying out
By Jairus Banaji In her conversations with Sartre published as La Cérémonie des adieux (1981), Simone de Beauvoir reminds him of the background against which the Critique emerged. Apart from the work he did on the long methodological essay that Gallimard would publish as Questions de méthode, she said, “wasn’t there another motivation? From 1952
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A Review of La possibilité du fascisme. France, la trajectoire du désastre by Ugo Palheta Alberto Toscano Reader in Critical Theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada alberto_toscano@sfu.ca Abstract This article reviews Ugo Palheta’s compelling conjunctural analysis and theorisation of France’s fascist potential in
Daniel Gaido National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina danielgaid@gmail.com Kaan Kangal, (2020) Friedrich Engels and the Dialectics of Nature, London: Palgrave Macmillan. In his book Anti-Dühring, Engels argued that, with Hegel, philosophy has come to an end, and that for philosophy, which had been expelled from nature and history by the natural and
Prosopography – the investigation of the common background characteristics of a closely defined population of historical actors by means of a collective examination of their careers and lives – has proved a useful addition to the toolbox of scholars researching diverse areas of historiography. Similar work utilizing quantitative and qualitative methods might well develop our
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Zeynep Gambetti It is my contention that neither the violence nor the struggles that we are experiencing at the dawn of the twenty-first century have found their concepts yet. The problems and contradictions inherent in them have not yet been adequately exposed, particularly because we keep trying to subsume these experiences under known schemes, using
