Saturday, 27 July , 2024

Capitalism

Karl Polanyi’s failed revolution The liberal world order is collapsing once...

By Thomas Fazi April 27, 2024  Few 20th-century thinkers have had such a lasting and profound influence as Karl Polanyi. “Some books refuse to go away...

Saul Bellow – Literature and Racism Or At War with the...

 “What they wouldn’t do, the white folks, to keep you from having a history, the better, after all, to protect theirs.” The Man Who Cried...

Samir Amin’s last two battles

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos Shortly before his death, in a series of writings, Samir Amin unfolded the two issues that mainly concerned him. The first was...

Marxism, nation and nationalism, Western and Russian Left

by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos This is the fourth of four articles on Alexandr Buzgalin and his era, the Soviet/Russian tragedy. You can read the three preceding...

An October for Us, for Russia and for the Whole World...

Published at November 6, 2007 IT IS NO surprise that the imminent 90th anniversary of the October Revolution in Russia has become the object...

Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...

COP Out: Wrapping Up a Useless Climate Summit That Should Fool...

By Peter Kalmus Climate Scientist Dec 18, 2023 COP28, the climate summit that ended last week, delivered nonbinding words. What humanity and the Earth need is...

In COP28 speech, Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls for a free...

The Colombian head of state has been consistently speaking out in support of Palestine amid Israel’s genocidal attacks. At the COP 28 summit, he...

Maxime Rodinson: What Marxism Can Teach Us About the History of...

Between the nineteen fifties and nineties, Maxime Rodinson (1915–2004) was one of France’s most famous Arabists. Gifted with an admirable encyclopedic culture, author of...

A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American...

Author(s): Lichtenstein, Nelson Stein, Judith Reviewer(s): Galbraith, James K. Nelson Lichtenstein and Judith Stein. A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism. Princeton: Princeton University...