To illustrate the stakes of market-reform debates in China in the 1980s, Isabella Weber begins her book with some dramatic graphs. The first (below) compares Russian and Chinese shares of world gdp ...

Edward Said was a longstanding friend and comrade. We first met in 1972, at a seminar in New York. Even in those turbulent times, one of the features that distinguished him from the rest of us was his ...

Many Soviet politicians have attracted the attention of the world’s press over the last ten years but very little has been said or written about Mikhail Suslov. He kept himself to the shadows, ...

Marx was notoriously vague about future society. It is ironic, then, that in the minds of most laymen he is often associated with a very specific utopian vision. As anyone familiar with Marx’s works ...

In times like these, the very appearance of an essay like Oliver Eagleton’s offers a glimmer of hope.footnote 1 His critique of my work is both historically conscious and generous towards the often ...

The neo-Schumpeterian approach of Philippe Aghion – co-author of The Power of Creative Destruction (2021), among many other ...

Palestine war that began in 1947 has still not ended. Its leaders – social democrats like Ben Gurion and Golda Meir in the ...

In an article devoted to the Young Marxfootnote 1, I have already stressed the ambiguity of the idea of ‘inverting Hegel’. It seemed to me that strictly speaking this expression suited Feuerbach ...

See too, inter alia, his renaming of the Department of Defense as the Department of War, his deployment of the national guard ...

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 ...

Che communicated by actions; and his words were weapons in the struggle. In the Renaissance, there were ‘universal men’, who were great in art, science and literature. In the 20th century, ...

In order to resist the attendant vices of his enterprise – the romanticising habits of a national-cinema tradition – Safdie ...