Forget Eco-Modernism
Recent years have seen renewed debate on climate strategy on the left. Here, Kai Heron responds to the arguments of the proponents of a left ecomodernism, and argues that it risks reactionary political consequences.
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Unintimidated Languages: Jameson at 90
In honor of Fredric Jameson's 90th birthday this month, we're publishing a series of short essays focused on the major books in Jameson's oeuvre. Here, Daniel Hartley revisits Jameson's first book, Sartre: The Origins of a Style (1961). -
Democracy or Bonapartism is out now!
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Josie Fanon and her fidelity to Palestinian liberation
Throughout her almost thirty-year-long career as a journalist and political analyst, Josie Fanon’s gaze remained fixed on Palestine. -
Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert on Marx, Spinoza, Work, and Breaking Bad
Jason Read discusses his new book, The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work. -
The Novel of Lenin: Chapter One
We’re excited to announce a new nine-part blog series: The Novel of Lenin by Joseph Andras.Starting with this installment and continuing over the next eight weeks, we will be releasing a new chapter of Andras’s biographical micro-novel to mark the centenary of Lenin’s death. -
New Left Review 145, out now
Rational and irrational causes of war: Michael Mann sets Ukraine and Gaza in comparative-historical context. -
Civilizing the climate
How the French colonization of Canada was aided by the country’s brutal winters. -
Breath
‘Her mere presence made other people feel ill at ease, and on her agonising journey home, she realised that she could never be safe, comfortable or relax in the company of other people, and that she never really had, she thought; her true fragile self was suddenly back.’
A short story by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
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Henri Lefebvre: Dogmatism in Reverse
Anti-Stalinist Communist, intellectual figure of May 68, Henri Lefebvre is re-read today as an ecosocialist thinker. His political quest for a balance between radicalism and mass movement is as relevant today as his thought, which is resistant to dogmatism. -
The Whitening of European Jews and the Misuse of Holocaust Memory
In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the formation of Israel, Jews' position in the Global North transformed from racialized minority into fully white members of "Judeo-Christian" society. As Gilbert Achcar shows in this essay, however, this assimilation into "super whiteness" relies on Jews placidly accepting their equation with Zionism and thus Israel's racist discrimination and violence against Arab Muslims.
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A Land Without Landlords: Nick Bano & Beth Stratford
Nick Bano and Beth Stratford discuss landlords, rentierism, and the British housing crisis.
