June 23rd, 2007
Thinking about Fromm and Marxism
Erich Fromm’s work is unfortunately neglected in academia today, in no small part because his expansive humanism is out of joint with many forms of radical thought popular in those quarters. In addition, university psychology and psychiatry departments have almost completely excluded Freudians or psychoanalysts of any kind, which leaves no room for Fromm there […]
January 01st, 2007
The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic: In Philosophy and in World Politics (on Lenin)
January 01st, 2007
Kevin B. Anderson, Marx and Luxemburg on Non-Western Precapitalist Societies (Chinese)
September 01st, 2005
Kevin B. Anderson, The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic (Japanese)
May 01st, 2005
New Pope Benedict Anoints Religious Fundamentalism
With the death of Pope John Paul II, a major pillar of the retrogressive politics of the past 25 years has left the scene. Unfortunately, his replacement, Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), is the one that progressives within the Roman Catholic Church had feared the most. While no one can predict all of the specific policies that Benedict XVI will put forth, it seems clear that the leadership of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful religious institution will continue along the general pathway laid out by John Paul II...
May 01st, 2005
Marx Redux?
June 20th, 2004
The Seductions of Islamism: Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution, Coauthored with Janet Afary (Czech)
“Islamisticka pokuseni: Novy pohled na vztah Michela Foucaulta a iranske revoluce” (trans. of “Seductions of Islamism: Revisiting Foucault on the Iranian Revolution”)
December 01st, 2002
Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire Today
Karl Marx published THE EIGHTEENTH BRUMAIRE OF LOUIS BONAPARTE in 1852 in the aftermath of the Dec. 2, 1851 Bonapartist coup in France that brought to an end the whole period of ferment that had begun with the 1848 revolutions. In France it ushered in nearly two decades of authoritarian rule, as the Bonapartist state became a precursor of twentieth century fascism, setting up the first modern police state. All the while the regime also claimed to oppose slavery and to be acting in the name of the masses against [...]