On the Current Conjuncture
Alain Badiou gets to grips with the current political moment, and proposes that we are on the cusp of a new epoch: a new mass communism.
Blog
Posts tagged: marxism
-
-
Leon Trotsky and Revolutionary Art
Eighty years ago, in August 1940, Leon Davidovitch Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico by Ramon Mercader, a fanatical agent of the Stalinist GPU. In this article acclaimed historian and thinker Michael Löwy looks at his writing on revolutionary art and assesses their contemporary relevance.
-
Happy Birthday: Critique of Dialectical Reason!
On the 60th anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre's key text on Marxism, Robert Boncardo shows us why it is still relevant, and urgently needed, today.
-
Communism is an active and diverse collective subjectivity
An interview with Etienne Balibar explores how concept and history drives his thinking of Marx
-
Teaching Marx in a Pandemic
Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season
-
“Capitalism is complex – but not difficult to understand”
An interview with the sociologist Vivek Chibber on academic Marxism, anti-discrimination and workers' movement.
-
Home Thoughts for New Times
Enzo Traverso on 'the Revolt of Nature' and how COVID-19 forces us to reconsider the blurred relationship between politics, economics, society and biology.
-
Happy Birthday Karl!
An excerpt from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.
-
In memoriam: Neil Davidson, 9 October 1957 – 3 May 2020
Jamie Allinson remembers Marxist historian, Neil Davidson, author of the groundbreaking How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions? who died May 3, 2020.
-
‘Why are you acting the Marxist?' Frédéric Lordon on Thomas Piketty’s 'Capital and Ideology'
On 31 January, at the Bourse du travail in Paris, Frédéric Lordon debated with Thomas Piketty on his book Capital and Ideology, at the invitation of Les Amis de L’Humanité. The following text is Frédéric Lordon's opening speech, with minimal revisions. Translated by David Fernbach
-
Announcing Spectre Journal
Announcing Spectre, a new journal of new, internationalist, Marxist-feminist, anti-racist analysis, strategy, and debate--a project that needs your help by May Day!
-
What makes Marx's Capital so brilliant?
At a glance, the commodity is a product and a variety of use-values, but, if examined in greater depth, it is an ideational form that acts in excess of human volition precisely to restrict or constrain human beings, a form into which everything is enclosed.
