January 09th, 2025
Marx on Communal Villages as Loci of Revolution, in 19th C. Russia & Beyond
Two years before his 1879–82 notebooks on communal social forms around the world, Marx begins to see an uprising in Russia as the most likely starting point for a wider European revolution. For example, in remarks on the Russo-Turkish War (the “oriental crisis”) in a letter of September 27, 1877, to the New Jersey communist […]
November 08th, 2024
The US Election: How Can We Move Forward While Staring Negativity in Its Face?
Summary: Based on remarks at a panel on “Developing Revolutionary Perspectives at a Turning Point,” sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization on the eve of the Historical Materialism Conference, Conway Hall, London, November 6, 2024 – Editors The second election of Donald Trump to the US presidency and of the Trumpist Republican Party on November […]
September 29th, 2024
Stop the Spread of Israel’s Genocidal War into Lebanon!
On Israel’s brutal assassinations, its colonialist arrogance, and the limitations of Hezbollah’s model of resistance. Approved as a Statement of the Steering Committee of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization — Editors
August 27th, 2024
Is It Midnight in the Century or a New Dawn?
[Presented at American Sociological Association meeting, Montreal, August 2024 and partially drawn from introduction to my new book, A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances (Routledge 2024)] It has become a commonplace to call out the burgeoning fascist threat, as seen in Trumpism in the U.S., the “tropical Trump” Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, the vicious […]
July 14th, 2024
Unexpected Result of French Election Bars a Neofascist Victory, Constituting a Moral as Well as a Political Victory for the Left
As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party. To be sure, recent elections in India and Turkey have seen the authoritarian right lose […]
January 03rd, 2024
İki Diyalektik Yıldönümü, Lukács ve Dunayevskaya
This article was published in English in International Marxist-Humanist, Dec. 13, 2023. We are publishing the Turkish version, translated by Yener Çıracı, which appeared in Birdunyaceviri blog.
December 23rd, 2023
Францыя: Паўстанне маргіналізаванай моладзі супраць паліцыі кідае выклік усяму грамадскаму парадку
This article was published in English in International Marxist-Humanist, on July 11, 2023. The Belarusian version appeared in ZNet Belarusian on July 23, 2023.
December 15th, 2023
Two Dialectical Anniversaries, Lukács and Dunayevskaya
In a fortunate coincidence, the year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of Georg Lukács’s epochal History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics (1923) and the 50th anniversary of Raya Dunayevskaya’s ground-breaking Philosophy and Revolution: From Hegel to Sartre and from Marx to Mao (1973). One difference between these luminous works is that the one by Lukács is widely held to be […]
December 13th, 2023
Kissinger, Mao and the Undermining of the 1960s Revolutions: Recalling Raya Dunayevskaya’s Prescient Analysis
The war criminal Henry Kissinger, who died at 100 in December, has been celebrated as a skilled strategist of the U.S. empire, especially for his — and the equally criminal Richard Nixon’s — China diplomacy, which brought that country back into the web of great power alliances and competition in the early 1970s. At the […]
October 20th, 2023
The Middle East and the World After October 7, and Israel’s War on Palestine
The October 7 attack by Hamas militants from Gaza into Israel, across one of the most closely guarded borders in the world, constitutes nothing less than a global turning point.