Editors' Blog

Niall Ferguson on Kissinger's World Order [Part Two] by Thomas Riggins

‘Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,

Niall Ferguson on Kissinger's World Order [Part One] by Thomas Riggins

A good book review both gives the gist of the book and allows you to decide if the book is worth reading or not.

A Review of: On the Reproduction of Capitalism (1) by Louis Althusser, translated by G. M. Goshgarian

"...history (political, social, intellectual) has completely shattered the unity, even the problematic unity, of the two discourses that Althusser's 'structural Marxism' sought to combine in such a way that each would help sustain the other; it has relegated them to contexts that hardly communicate now."

Lenin on the State and Revolution: The Withering Away of the State, Review (part one) by Thomas Riggins

Lenin: State and Revolution: Chapter 5 - Withering Away the State (Part One)

V. J. McGill on Russell's Critique of Marxism by Thomas Riggins

V. J. McGill on Russell's Critique of Marxism

Beautiful Literature by New Members

I get to read some of the best literature in contemporary America.

W.E.B. DuBois tribute 50 years ago

W. E. B. Du Bois's Life After Death

Fertility, Women, and the Rise of Modern Capitalism: Review by Thomas Riggins

 Women, Fertility, and the Rise of Modern Capitalism: Review

Morning Star Article on Egypt

One-sided Coverage Obscures Real Issues

Marx and the Muslim Brothers by Thomas Riggins

How should one respond to the claim, made by Sheri Berman a political science professor at Barnard College, that Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are "Marx's contemporary successors"? [Oped- New York Times 8-10-13: "Marx's Lesson for the Muslim Brothers"]

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