WESTERN MARXISM RECONSIDERED: THE ODDITIES OF LOSURDO AND ROCKHILL
Unfortunately, Losurdo and Rockhill’s conception of “Western Marxism” cannot survive
serious scrutiny. By setting up the category of either/or, for or against,... Read more.
Dispatches from Venezuela: From Communes to Anti-Imperialist Conferences
As we left the Simón Bolivar International Airport, we were provided with the clear juxtaposition of the inequalities of Venezuela’s past and the Bolivarian Revolution’s... Read more.
Kautskyism and Trotskyism: Reflections on Doug Greene’s the New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky – Part Four
For all the value the Kautsky revival has offered, whatever political projects it has inspired and sustained, close inspection reveals that the theory itself is... Read more.
Kautskyism and Trotskyism: Reflections On Doug Greene’s The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky – Part Three
If Leninism appeared to be no option, “high theory” academic Marxism too fancy and disembodied, Post-Marxism too much of a capitulation to postmodernism and... Read more.
Kautskyism and Trotskyism: Reflections on Doug Greene’s The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky – Part Two
If forms one leg in a three-legged stool, next to Luxemburg and Lenin, then the metaphor must be refined: one of the stool’s legs is broken in half and the other... Read more.
Kautskyism and Trotskyism: Reflections on Doug Greene’s The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky – Part One
This is the first of a three-part series reflecting on Douglas Greene’s, The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky: The Renegade’s Revenge (Routledge,... Read more.
Obituary: Fredric Jameson 1934-2024
Marxism’s preeminent cultural critic for more than fifty years, Jameson was the foremost proponent of dialectical thought, in which two seemingly contradictory... Read more.