Solidarity was once intended to make the talk of brotherhood real, by lifting it out of generality, where it was an ideology, and reserving it for the particular, the Party, as the sole representative in an antagonistic world of generality.
The revolutionary communist, Esther Cooper Jackson, died last month at 105 years old. In this piece, Jodi Dean and Charisse Burden-Stelly, editors of Organize, Fight, Win, remember her radical legacy and reflect on a lifetime dedicated to socialism and Black liberation.
The American poet and essayist Adrienne Rich was renowned in her lifetime as an eloquent and militant feminist writer. Less often discussed today is the depth of her engagement with Marx and Marxism. Here, Ciarán O’Rourke analyses Rich's anticapitalist vision.
All collaboration, all the human worth of social mixing and participation, merely masks a tacit acceptance of inhumanity. It is the sufferings of men that should be shared: the smallest step towards their pleasures is one towards the hardening of their pains.
In the latest issue: Cédric Durand responds to Evgeny Morozov, Benjamin Kunkel on radical literary criticism and more!
The internet is replete with images of commodities in the process of destruction. From the homes sucked into rising tides to stuffed toys crushed between the teeth of an hydraulic press, what does such an apocolyptic sublime tell us about the relationship between the image and contemporary capitalism?
The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. It drills them in their attitudes by behaving as if it were itself a customer.
"There are no winners in the intergenerational battle." A letter from the translator of Is Mother Dead, a novel by Vigids Hjorth.
In honor of Jean-Luc Godard's recent death, we're republishing Peter Wollen's essay on the great director, originally published in Paris Hollywood.
The Covid-19 pandemic further exposed a world geared toward collapse – degrowth argues that we should radically change our economic system to save the planet and build a more sustainable world for all.
Unpolitical attempts to break out of the bourgeois family usually lead only to deeper entanglement in it, and it sometimes seems as if the fatal germ-cell of society, the family, were at the same time the nurturing germ-cell of uncompromising pursuit of another.
Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality.