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Maya Adereth and Neil Warner of Phenomenal World interview Michael Mann on the study of history and the reemergence of great power politics

We publish here the text of one of the last interviews with Georges Lukács, given to Hungarian television. The interview was prepared and conducted by András Kovács. Lukács talks about his youth and the influence Lenin had on his own development as a revolutionary activist. His aim is to convey the sense of Lenin’s grasp on the richness and complexity of historical reality. The interview was recorded in October 1969. We are publishing here the first part, which is mainly about Lukács’s relationship with Lenin’s thought and action.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, and the string of extraordinary and increasingly everyday global events that have come along with it, many have diagnosed the end of neoliberalism and the birth pangs of something new rising in its stead. In the first of a two part series, Joshua Clover and Nikhil Pal Singh map the present conjuncture and search for answers in the rubble of global capitalism.

A recent interview with Enzo Traverso in the Cornell Chronicle about his new book Revolution: An Intellectual History.

In part 3 of the Revolutionary Mathematics roundtable, Sonia Balagopalan discusses the relation of revolutionary mathematics to math education.

Due to Ted Cruz's recent decision to use his platform to boost some excellent books, including Alex Vitale's The End of Policing, we decided to build a list of 10 books Ted would also hate. 

Isabelle Garo and Alex Cukier interviews Michael Löwy about his way into Marxism and the challenges for Marx's thought in the world today.

In pt 2 of the Revolutionary Mathematics roundtable, Rahel Süß looks at the relation between the rise of algorithmic capitalism and democracy. 

In the aftermath of May 68, the question of the school was omnipresent in French philosophy. In this interview Etienne Balibar discusses the different critiques of the school in post-68 French thought and the challenges involved in developing a Marxist theory of the 'school apparatus'. 

In this entry of the Revolutionary Mathematics roundtable, James Muldoon discusses the role of algorithms in contemporary capitalism, the new politics of the subject, and digital capitalism.

From 1965 until 1980, Louis Althusser edited the Théorie series of books, each released by the pioneering French publisher François Maspero. Here Stuart Elden charts the history of the series, and the impact it had on French, and global, Marxist philosophy.

Contemporary circulation struggles – the occupations, riots and critical infrastructure blockades that dominate the reportoire of resistance – have in recent years been popularly associated with movements of the left. But what happens they migrate across the political spectrum? Here, Joshua Clover writes on the contemporary terrain of struggle.