The list that follows is brief: brown bread, salt, wine, a windy day, intimacy with friends and family. Art’s great promise ...

Magyar made the issue of ‘democracy’ a material one through his focus on the neglect of the health and education systems, ...

The global reverberations of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, understood as world event—an epochal turning point which serves to ...

A sociological critique of calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons, arguing instead for a radical ...

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Sebastian Veg on Ming-Sho Ho, Be Water; Ching Kwan Lee, Forever Hong Kong; Edmund Cheng and Samson Yuen, The Making of ...

Let’s dispose of some red herrings at the outset. First, I share virtually all the values and concerns of degrowth advocates. I agree that uncontrolled economic growth produces serious environmental ...

When I was in school I was getting disgusted with the attitude of art being so religious or sacred, so I wanted to make something which people could relate to without having read a book about it first ...

The theory of imperialist capitalism, as is well known, has so far attained its most significant treatment in Lenin’s works. This is not only because Lenin attempts to explain transformations of the ...

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Contemporary capitalism rests on the pairing of internationalized productive capital and global financial capital, a configuration that differs sharply from the finance capital analysed by Hilferding ...

The situation of women is different from that of any other social group. This is because they are not one of a number of isolable units, but half a totality: the human species. Women are essential and ...