New Left Review 151, out now
What weight should be given to the role of ideas in moments of radical change, as opposed to material interests and forces?
A Trumpian rupture? Susan Watkins offers some baselines for measuring the 47th President’s departures from US imperial norms.
Perry Anderson reflects on the lessons to be drawn from the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the rise of Marxism and the hegemony of neoliberalism, for a system-changing left.
Teemu Ruskola narrates the unmaking and remaking of the Chinese working class.
Tariq Ali surveys the current state of the Arab world.
Malcolm Bull explores some surprising parallels between avant-garde art and the world of cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Plus, a symposium on Robin Blackburn’s work on the rise of Atlantic slavery and its overthrow, with contributions from John Clegg, Enrico Dal Lago and Nancy Fraser.