Writing in 1992 – in an essay that essentially relaunched Pritchard’s reputation – Young wondered why his work was never mentioned, ‘especially odd given that The Matrix was published during the ...
The biography, which was so little assessed as a text in the ‘quality’ press, has many solid virtues. Inglis had access to a wide range of what he calls ‘dramatis personae’ and also to some really ...
In the last few years an important current of Marxist thought has emerged in Great Britain. The editorial committee of New Left Review, particularly Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn, have undertaken a ...
In his wonderful short text ‘Notes of a Publicist’—written in February 1922 when the Bolsheviks, after winning the Civil War against all odds, had to retreat into the New Economic Policy of allowing a ...
In the last 40 years, the people of Brazil have broken stifling traditional constraints on their life, and have begun to develop their productive forces, to renovate their social institutions and to ...
The May Revolution in France was foreseen by nobody. It burst upon the world without warning. It did not fit any pre-conceived pattern. At first glance France seemed the capitalist country least ...
The subject of the film is globalization and the sea, the ‘forgotten space’ of our modernity. Its premise is that the oceans remain the crucial space of globalization: nowhere else is the ...
Whatever Fanon was, he was not a postmodernist. He might rather be characterized as one part Marxist Freudian, one part Freudian Marxist, and most part totally committed to revolutionary liberation ...
Bhaskar Sunkara—editor and, in 2010, while he was still an undergraduate, founder of Jacobin, a socialist quarterly which today boasts more than 35,000 subscribers and attracts many more readers to an ...
While I sympathize with Fred Halliday’s intentions in his article on ‘The Ends of Cold War’,footnote 1 I must disagree sharply both with its method and execution. No doubt he has been trapped by the ...
In Narcissus and Oedipus: The Children of Psychoanalysis footnote 1, Victoria Hamilton challenges Freud’s theories of infantile and child development. Syncretizing Kleinian and object relations ...