Robert Musil was one of the great novelists of twentieth-century Europe. A recently translated collection of his essays, Literature and Politics, Drew Dickerson argues, can help us see more clearly the historical and political context of his masterpiece, The Man without Qualities.
Sonia Herzbrun-Dayan, Michael Löwy and Eleni Varikas on Max Weber
It is often overlooked that the insurrectionary demonstrations in Germany's November 1918 Revolution were largely made up of women who worked in the munitions factories or the home (and often both). Cläre Casper-Derfert was a factory worker and the only woman of the Revolutionary Stewards. This is her account of the November Revolution.
This January is the centenary of the Spartacus Uprising in Germany. The most famous victims of the wave of repression that followed were Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, but one of the first victims of the counter-revolutionary violence was Wolfgang Fernbach. In this article, his grandson David Fernbach discusses his life and legacy.
On the death of the influential left-wing political scientist.
A Maoist critique of the East German university system published in 1968 by the Shanghai Red Guards. Â
Jan Willem Stutje describes Ernest Mandel's experiences in Berlin with Rudi Dutschke and on the barricades in Paris during 1968.Â
Elmar Altvater has died, shortly before his 80th birthday.
The German Left needs a new road out of the false alternatives of renationalization and humanitarian cosmopolitanism.
A 2016 book reveals pro-European intellectuals of the 1930s who greeted Nazi invasion as a historic opportunity for their project.Â
Étienne Balibar lays down the political conditions for a historic refoundation of the EU, based on a new type of federation.