Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian sociologist and philosopher, has been one of Europe's most influential Marxists for the past 30 years. In this interview, translated from Portuguese, he discusses Jair Bolsonaro and the global return of the right.
For an urban "Green New Deal" to be truly transformative, it must be driven by popular participation and the imperatives of climate justice, eco-socialism, and decolonization.
For Erik Olin Wright, our greatest chance at developing non-capitalist economic institutions may be in periods of class compromise initiated from below. The question is what it would take – or even whether or not it is possible – to rebuild such conditions in the present.
Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth and translated by Charlotte Barslund was longlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards for Translated Literature.
The Hirak movement in Algeria continues to build momentum, bringing the streets of Algiers to a standstill. In this interview, Nedjib Sidi Moussa, doctor of Political Science at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, discusses the composition of the movement, and highlights its limits and horizon.
Todd Miller, author of Empire of Borders, selects five essential books about border imperialism, the surveillance state, and the politics of national security.
This year's commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion of France during WW2 has shone a light in France on the country's forgotten troops: those from its African colonies. In this article, Luke Butterly discusses the atrocities committed by France against its black and Arab soldiers, and their decades long struggle for recognition.
The "revolutionary conservative" writer Ernst Jünger was a regular contributor in the early 1930s to the journal Widerstand – a German National Bolshevik journal fascinated with Stalin’s Soviet Union, which was for them a land of ‘total mobilisation’, ‘planned economy’ and a ‘total state’, where they saw features of an idealised Prussia. In this essay, published in English for the first time, Jünger analyses Leon Trotsky's My Life.
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In what many analysts saw as a test for Vladimir Putin's rule, the Moscow election was a setback of sorts, but the opposition's orientation towards capitalism undermines its own anti-corruption platform, says Tony Wood.
Theodor Adorno remains one of the key sources for understanding the desire for Fascism, notably in his groundbreaking work The Authoritarian Personality. In this article Max L. Feldman reads Adorno's writings on Fascism, alongside Disney's 1991 film The Beauty and the Beast, to analyse the contemporary resurgence of the far-right and the enduring relevance of Adorno's work.
On the 31st August, renowned sociologist and the inaugurator of world-systems analysis Immanuel Wallerstein died aged 88. In this, a seminal late work published here in English for the first time, Wallerstein traces the contours of of the Western left both in the past and its future. In doing so, he raises fundamental questions about the left's relationship with internationalism, and asks how the left can chart a new way forward in the twenty-first century.