JUST as I had come to realize that I had all along been just reactive in my approach to the China question in the Philippines ...

Marxist scholar Michael Löwy, responding to Samuel Farber’s “In Defense of Progress” from the new issue of Jacobin, defends ...

“It is not just a religion. It is an ideology. It’s social, it’s political, it’s economic.” He compared this to Marxism and warned of the increasing alignment between the two. “Marxism and Islam, they ...

In 1981, Leszek Kolakowski began the introduction to the first volume of his magisterial trilogy Main Currents of Marxism with the statement ‘Karl Marx was a German philosopher.’ If we add ‘who lived ...

On the murder of Ruth First and others killed by the South African death squads, and on the threat to the lives of activists at home and abroad. No. 96 (1st Quart. 1984), p. 5 Speeches at the funeral, ...

Unsurprisingly, the exchanges often turn on very familiar themes in the history of Marxist polemics: most notably the distinction between historical and dialectical materialisms—or in other words, ...

Sharon Olds doesn’t need my good opinion; her trophy cabinet is pretty well full. Her first book of poems, Satan Says, won the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980. Her second, The Dead ...