Gregory Elliott’s book appears at a time when the reputation of its subject seems near to total eclipse.footnote 1 In Althusser’s own country he is, as Elliott reports, practically a ‘dead dog’, ...

The subject of our session this evening has been a focus of intellectual debate and political passion for at least six or seven decades now.footnote ＊ It already has a long history, in other words. It ...

The struggle of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie must eventually result in the seizure of State power by the proletariat. One would naturally expect this to take place independently in each ...

No serious appraisal of the decade has yet been made. The popular after-images of ‘The Thirties’ (in the main, the handiwork of the contrite and the scornful) can be displaced only by scrupulous ...

NLR 123, May–June 2020. Includes articles by Adrian Grama, Julian Stallabrass, Roberto Schwarz, Mao Jian, Sharachchandra Lele, Monique Sicard, Wolfgang Streeck, Robert Brenner, Francis Mulhern, Carlo ...

Keynes pronounced his famous discourse on the End of Laissez-faire in 1926. It has been a long time a-dying. To ‘clear from the ground the metaphysical or general principles upon which, from time to ...

What do you understand by modern value and distribution theory? I mean theory based on the marginal method that has held almost undisputed sway over economic thought since the last quarter of the ...

The russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, launched by the Kremlin after months of rising tensions, quickly generated a flood of casualties and several million refugees, as well as bringing ...

Doe t’express his loue and friending to you, God willing, shall not lacke: Let us goe in together, And still your fingers on your lippes, I pray. The time is out of ioynt: Oh cursed spight, That ever ...

From the outset, the Cuban revolution was determined to assert its independence. The island’s foreign policy was shaped by a dual impulse: a revolutionary desire to multiply the fronts of resistance ...

The world of South and Southeast Asia has always featured prominently in theoretical discussions seeking to open European ideas up to the world, from the importance of India for postcolonial theory to ...

The prize-winner in the contest for the greatest blunder of 1998 was a Latin American patriotic terrorist who sent a letter-bomb to a us consulate in order to protest against the Americans interfering ...