A vanguard of right-leaning intellectuals gathered in March to found the so-called Frankfort School.
Category Archive: Marxism
Historian Chris Wright argues that we need to rethink Marxism for our current crisis, but without expecting revolution to happen in one big disruptive moment.
The following is an excerpt from the new book Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care, […]
Participatory budgeting (PB) and workers cooperatives–two pillars of the solidarity economy–offer some of the best tools for building […]
Since at least the 1950s, scholars have speculated about what the economy might look like when and if […]
Saturday night, Washington D.C., a stone’s throw from one of D.C. hardcore’s central nodes and the playground of […]
“It was profoundly true that movements of the spirit came first, and that events of history were consequences […]
Continuing my series of posts on the novels of Victor Serge at my personal blog site For the Desk Drawer, I focus now on what Richard Greeman has recognized as the “cycle of resistance” in the second informal trilogy comprising Midnight in the Century [1939], The Case of Comrade Tulayev [1942], and The Long Dusk [1946]. If earlier novels in the “cycle of revolution” capture the conquest of space, notably Conquered City, then the later novels in the “cycle of resistance” convey the statification of space. This refers to the production of political space through meaningful architectural forms; symbolic representations of state power; the organisation of territory and geography; and state strategies to shape, reproduce, and control production through industrial development, land use, transportation, and communication. The novel Midnight in the Century reflects the defeat of revolution and how the Soviet state bound itself to space: how state control is extended, shaped and reshaped by the production of space. The spatial dimension is therefore intrinsic to understanding the contradictions of state action and struggles for survival within this rendering of life at the hands of the Soviet machine.