In the realm of aesthetics, the way a thing is expressed is of a qualitatively different order from what it would be in science. No one will deny that even in science a statement can be made in a ...

Our purpose here is to demonstrate that the spirit of allegory manifests itself quite unambiguously both in the theory and in the practice of the modernist avant-garde. It is no accident that, for ...

In the early 1930s, Bung Karno [Sukarno] was hauled before a Dutch colonial court on a variety of charges of ‘subversion’. He was perfectly aware that the whole legal process was prearranged by the ...

The interest of ‘Ghana: End of an Illusion’ far transcends its immediate subject.footnote 1 In reality it exposes two ‘illusions’: on the one hand, the absence of lucidity and consistency in the ...

Behind the headline inflation figures—above 8 per cent in the us for the third quarter of 2022 and over 11 per cent in the eu—there are unmistakable signs of a new macroeconomic regime taking form.

May I comment on Ioan Davies’ article ‘The Labour Commonwealth’ which appeared in New Left Review 22. Your readers’ attention should be drawn to a number of inaccuracies and omissions in the section ...

There is a discursive strategy commonly adopted by politicians, particularly at election time, in the face of discomforting questions. It consists of appearing to respond to a questioner but without ...

If we begin, then, with what I have called the minimum necessary condition of Marx’s science, this methodological requirement to which he assigns an exceptional importance, the first question which ...

At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the whole of Eastern Europe was divided between three empires. Previous little statelets, survivors of medieval fragmentation, were absorbed into the three large ...

Having previously argued for the general superiority of Marxist class analysis over its main sociological rivals—especially Weberian approaches and those adopted within mainstream stratification ...

The ‘short’ twentieth century is often held to have begun with the First World War, and ended with the demise of the Soviet Union in 1991. But there is another way of looking at the last hundred years ...

Like so many of his characters, he remains animate in death, a granite eminence that turns its head, winks, scowls and ...