Truly a labour of love, as well as sincere political and scholarly commitment, dedicated investigators of the history of revolutionary Social Democracy have been working for decades collecting, translating, and publishing the writings of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century, Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
For anyone interested in the study of left-wing culture in the Weimar Republic – and indeed the communist workers’ movement of the interwar years more generally – ‘La Révolution suspendue’ by Christian Joschke offers a rich, thoroughly researched, and exceptionally well-written study.
Egge’s monograph advances our understanding of a key figure of the Bolshevik revolution well beyond the caricatures that have too long dominated the historiography. It also makes clear that much work remains.
Felix Weil’s most lasting contribution to the culture of the 20th century was certainly the Institute for Social Research. An institute for Marxist research and teaching was a new and innovative institution – and unique in this form. Felix Weil did not see Marxism as a political orientation, but as a discipline, comparable to any other subject taught at university.
There was a time when the works of Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, and Matsumoto Toshio were lauded as innovative and revelatory well outside the ranks of film school aesthetes and underground video stores, when they reached into at least the fringes of mainstream discourse.
‘Capitalism, Jacobinism, and International Relations’ amounts to a brilliant book, showing that, in France and the Ottoman Empire, universal citizenship, equality before the law, and mass conscription did not represent components of nascent capitalism but of an alternative Jacobin form of strengthening the state.
I wanted to express appreciation for Peter Lamb’s generous review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. Lamb’s review stresses the book’s scholarly merits and suggests it will be “very resourceful” for critical theorists interested in “immanent critique”. Lamb emphasises the “untapped potential” of the argument for liberal socialism and my failure to push it
The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism, Matthew McManus, Abingdon: Routledge, 2025. Reviewed by Peter Lamb Introduction Karl Marx engaged in political and intellectual competition with radical liberals for much of his life, but recognised the important and indeed necessary contribution of liberalism as a driving force in historical development. He did so from a position
Josefine Wikström’s book Task Dance and Event Score: A Critique of Performance is a very timely and compelling contribution to the understanding of labour in art theory.
From 3 to 5 April 2026, hundreds of people from every continent came together at the HM Istanbul 2026 Conference. Convened at Istanbul Bilgi University, Santral Campus, the conference took place under the theme “From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters”. Across 127 panels and with 456 speakers, the conference brought into dialogue a wide range of struggles, experiences, and critical perspectives on war, ecology, authoritarianism, class, gender, race, social reproduction, and resistance.
Habermas’s errors and even his blind spots do not diminish his intellectual stature. Without him, the darkness deepens still further in a Germany and a Europe that appear increasingly adrift.
Little known today, Sadik Premtaj is nonetheless a crucial figure for understanding the early years of the Communist Party of Albania (CPA).
