Leader of the French Revolution Maximilien Robespierre is often portrayed as a crazed fanatic. It's thanks to the work of his equally...
18 months ago

The Radical Enlightenment starts with Baruch Spinoza's materialist philosophy. There is a direct line from Spinoza to Marx and Engels via the French Revolution.
42 months ago

The reports of communism's demise have been greatly exaggerated, argues Sean McMeekin in To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise...
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Allusions to Marx seem to be emanating from all points of the political compass these days in the context of the current political-economic crisis of...
125 months ago

In “The Printing Press as an Agent of Change,” Professor Eisenstein argued that the proliferation of print shops had a seismic effect on...
105 months ago

Jacobinism was not a betrayal of the Radical Enlightenment and the French Revolution. It was a historically necessary effort to defend both.
51 months ago

Leftists have a long history of experimenting with alternatives to traditional education. Now is the perfect time to re-engage with radical pedagogy.
16 months ago

1848 marked a fundamental transition in the way we conduct politics. But the great Victorian year of protest actually feels more recent than it has for decades.
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The ilk of Karat, Yechury et al must read up on the socio-economic literature of the last 50 years to learn what terms like “bourgeoisie” and “capitalism” mean...
98 months ago

Reflexionar sobre los rasgos esenciales del jacobinismo no es asunto baladí. Pues lo que se discute son las raíces y el futuro de la...
86 months ago