Posts tagged: weekend-read

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  Weekend Read | General Propositions on Fascism and the Dominant Classes

  The global far-right is returning at an alarming rate, with the latest example being that of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil (analysed by Perry Anderson in the latest LRB). But, is this fascism? The first thing we need to know before we can answer that is a full definition of fascism as an historical phenomena. In this extract from his republished classic Fascism and Dictatorship, Nicos Poulantzas explains the relationship between fascism and the dominant classes.

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  Memory and History: On the Poverty of Remembering and Forgetting the Judeocide

  Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, a day of commemoration dedicated to the remembrance of those who suffered in The Holocaust under Nazi persecution, and in subsequent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur and elsewhere. In this, an extract from Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The "Final Solution" in History, Arno J. Mayer analyses the structure of rememberence and the task of the historian in relation to the Nazi Judeocide.

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  Havana Under Water

  The sea has long been a defining feature, indeed an inevitability in Cuban art, literature, and life. Now it turns ominous.

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  The Pundit

  Opinion columns were designed by God to have the same lifespan as a croissant.

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  The Great Camouflage

  "We must dare to point out the Caribbean stain on France's face, since so many of the French seem determined to tolerate no shadow of it."

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  Repression and Resistance in Haiti, 2004–2006

  Peter Hallward examines political mobilizations among Haiti's popular classes in the years between the US-backed 2004 coup and the first presidential elections that followed, in 2006 — and the violent repression that met them. 

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  Writing Eleanor Marx

  In this excerpt from her memoirs, activist and writer Yvonne Kapp reflects on the decade-long research and writing of her definitive biography of Eleanor Marx. 

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  Liberalism and Racial Slavery: A Unique Twin Birth

  Domenico Losurdo looks at the foundational link between liberalism and Atlantic slavery, and liberal philosophers' shifting positions on slavery in the period between Somersett v Stewart and the American Civil War.

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  Running from Resignation: Central Americans on the Migrant Trail

  Óscar Martínez considers why Central American migrants will not stop seeking a way into the trap of the United States.

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  Football and Politics in South America

  Politicans around the world associate themselves with popular sports, but in South America the relationship between politicians and football has often been much stronger than that.

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  Rethinking the Cultural History of Chinese Film: A Conversation with Dai Jinhua

  Marxist Feminist film scholar Dai Jinhua, one of the preeminent cultural critics of China's New Left, historicizes the rapid cultural and intellectual developments that took place in China during the 1980s and 90s. 

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  On the Myth of Jewish Self-Hatred

  Rather than accusing Jews who criticize Israel of self-hatred, we should be asking ourselves what love can and should be able to tolerate.