Reconsidering the Sexual Politics of Fascism Robyn Marasco 1. Two women were killed in the riots on the US Capitol but only one of them, Ashli Babbitt, has become a martyr for the movement. The other woman, Roseanne Boyland, was trampled by a crowd of Trump supporters shortly after arriving at the Capitol and seen
Andrés Cabrera1 “A crisis occurs, sometimes lasting for decades. This exceptional duration means that incurable structural contradictions have revealed themselves (reached maturity), and that, despite this, the political forces which are struggling to conserve and defend the existing structure itself are making every effort to cure them, within certain limits, and to overcome them. These
An Epistemological Introduction By Darko Suvin Why did the heathens tremble and the peoples imagine inanities? Psalm 2 The catastrophe is that things just go on as before. Walter Benjamin, Central Park When no hope is left, one has to follow one’s principles. Old miner in Brassed Off (dir. Mark Herman, 1996) 0. Categories For a
By Asad Haider Maurice Blanchot wrote in a tribute to his friend Georges Bataille, a decade after his death, that friendship “does not allow us to speak of our friends, but only to speak to them.”1 Chris Chitty was my friend. As I read his posthumous book Sexual Hegemony, which comes to me in his
By Gavin Walker There is no such thing as the ‘spontaneous knowledge’ of the dominated classes; or, more exactly, we could say that any such ‘spontaneous knowledge’ has no fixed meaning that would tie it to this or that form of politics. Didier Eribon, Retour à Reims The question of fascism today is no
Professor Anwar Shaikh is professor of Economics in the Graduate Faculty of Social and Political Science at The New School for Social Research in New York City, where he has taught since 1972. He is actually one of the most prominent heterodox economists in the world. In the conversation that follows, Pablo Pulgar Moya sits down with Anwar
Rohini Hensman Preface This article was published in the Bulletin of the Communist Platform No.2, June–September 1978, as a contribution to an ongoing discussion on trade unions that was being conducted in the Platform Group. We read and discussed Marx on trade unions and their role in determining the value and price of labour
A Dialogue with Ugo Palheta Valerio Arcary1 The Historical Materialism website has published a provocative essay by Ugo Palheta on contemporary neofascism.2 Over 22 theses, he develops a theoretical-historical analysis of fascism in its three dimensions: the ideology, the movement and the regime. Although the phenomenon is international, and there are common factors and elements
A Review of Le temps des émeutes andLes enfants du chaos by Alain Bertho Alberto Toscano Reader in Critical Theory, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Visiting Faculty, Digital Democracies Institute, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada alberto_toscano@sfu.ca Abstract This article explores the analysis of the present advanced by the French
A Review of Hegemonía y lucha de clases. Tres ensayos sobre Trotsky, Gramsci y el marxismo by Juan Dal Maso Panagiotis Sotiris Hellenic Open University, Greece panagiotis.sotiris@gmail.com Abstract Juan Dal Maso’s Hegemonía y lucha de clases. Tres ensayos sobre Trotsky, Gramsci y el marxismo represents an ambitious attempt to rethink the relation of Gramsci to
A Review of One Man’s Terrorist: A Political History of the IRA by Daniel Finn Oliver Eagleton Assistant Editor, New Left Review oeagleton@gmail.com Abstract This review of Daniel Finn’s One Man’s Terrorist identifies the unique features in its narrative of the Northern Irish Troubles: its emphasis on the distinct political factions within the nationalist movement,
A Review of Ideology and the Virtual City: Videogames, Power Fantasies and Neoliberalism by Jon Bailes Jamie Woodcock Senior Lecturer in Management, Faculty of Business and Law, The Open University, UK jamie.woodcock@open.ac.uk Keywords Marxism – videogames – psychoanalysis – cultural studies Jon Bailes, (2019) Ideology and the Virtual City: Videogames, Power Fantasies and Neoliberalism, Winchester:
