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Idealism appears in bourgeois philosophy to oppose itself to mechanism, and in a certain sense it does. But if we look into concrete living, we see that both are generated simultaneously.

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"Despite a long history of exalted appeals to man’s inherent right of resistance, there has seldom been agreement on how to relate in practice to unjust, immoral laws and the oppressive social order from which they emanate"

Sivanandan captured the dire, demeaning, and deadly consequences of racist state practices on the ground, and situated them within larger political, economic and historical processes.

Silvia Federici on the links between changes in the global economy and increasing violence against women. 

Aaron Bastani makes the socialist argument for a British space agency

Historian D.N. Jha describes the contradictions of the purificatory role of cows in early Brāhmaņical society.

Pyeongchang echoes Rio's legacy: political grandstanding, overspending, greenwashing, white-elephant stadiums, and the militarization of public space.

The claims now being made on universities and public institutions in France provides an opening onto different kinds of critical solidarity and strategy. 

Tithi Bhattacharya offers an introduction to the methods, insights, and strategic implications of Social Reproduction Theory. 

The story of how a chemical weapon banned from war zones was redesigned to target unarmed civilians.  

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