Montly Review
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In the public eye: “Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?'”
The latest: Einstein's perspective links alienation and nuclear annihilation, capitalism to the devastating possibility of omnicide -- the destruction of all human life on earth. As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary and in the same year, the current US President respectively imprisons and kills the heads of Venezuela and Iran in a clear attempt to control access to their oil supplies, we already find ourselves mired in another imperialist war in the Middle East that is very likely to veer towards World War III....
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June 24: Workshop on Ian Angus’ “Metabolic Rifts”
June 29th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.
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June 27th: Online workshop on Socialist Register 2026
June 27th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.
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In the public eye: “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”, by August Nimtz
About “‘Black Marxism’: A Marxist Critique”, by August Nimtz Over the last decade, Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition has had a tremendous influence on... READ MORE
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In the public eye: Andy Merrifield’s “Roses for Gramsci”
The latest: "....Is 'subaltern' a code for the working classes? Is 'hegemony' an economic force or a cultural power? Are 'organic intellectuals' inherently more progressive? The answers to such questions depend upon your choice of scholar—whether, say, you’re reading a Foucauldian literary critic or a Marxist sociologist, a subaltern historian or a posthuman anthropologist. Over the years, Gramsci’s writing has been polished by critics of such diverse persuasions that it has now become a mirror: One opens his books only to confirm one’s own beliefs....when the English writer Andy Merrifield arrived in Rome, feeling 'washed out intellectually,' Gramsci came to the rescue...."
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