Diodorus Cronus (born 4th century bc) was a philosopher of the Megarian school, remembered for his innovations in logic. His surname Cronus, of uncertain meaning, was applied both to him and to his teacher, the philosopher Apollonius of Cyrene. Through Apollonius he is linked with Eubulides of Miletus, a 4th-century Greek thinker; together the three […]
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin) was a German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis. Hegel was the last of the great philosophical system builders of modern times.
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Written by Uruguayan journalist Raúl Zibechi, Territórios em rebeldia was published in Brazil in 2022 and features a collection of articles on the struggles led by Latin American communities that resist the violent onslaught of capital in the twenty-first century and seek to build new worlds. The articles were written at different times and address
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Selected Political Writings of Ghassan Kanafani is a long overdue edition in English, offering a small glimpse into the non-fiction writings Kanafani produced in his lifetime, a life tragically cut short by a targeted Israeli assassination. While Kanafani’s novels have been translated into English, his non-fiction works are only recently receiving attention in the Anglophone
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With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, the projected horizon of Marx’s philosophy of history, and the utopian belief that life might be lived otherwise, has been put on trial on a global scale. Inherited in part from the work of such sceptics as Hayek and Popper, and seemingly demonstrated in the previous
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Were Nancy Fraser an anthropologist, she might have titled her most recent book Endo-Cannibal Capitalism or Auto-Cannibal Capitalism since the main idea of this succinct, thoughtful and eminently readable analysis of late capitalism is that the system we live under is devouring the very conditions of its own existence, rather than consuming some unidentified other.
‘You can measure the honesty of a contemporary philosopher’, the sociologist Max Weber once told a group of students, ‘by his attitude toward Nietzsche and Marx’. Marx revealed the subordination of the individual to a dynamic system of impersonal domination that incubates its own destructive elements; Nietzsche disclosed the weak psychological constitution of the ‘last
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The primary objective of Economic Growth and Long Cycles, to quote a summary from the final chapter, is ‘to construct a growth-cum-cycles model inspired by the Classical and Marxist Political Economy tradition’ (249). The authors follow Anwar Shaikh, in his magnum opus Capitalism, in locating Marx within the classical political economy tradition of Smith and Ricardo. But
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Todd McGowan’s task in Embracing Alienation is to contend with two ideas that are usually associated with the problem of alienation, first that it is a modern phenomenon and second, that it is a negative aspect and hence must be overcome. The book hinges on the thesis that alienation is constitutive of our beings and
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The new translation by Paul Reitter of Marx’s most important work has two main things going for it. Firstly, it has a direct relationship to a determinate original text by Marx, the 1872 second German edition. This means that it is very straightforward to compare the translation with what Marx actually wrote. This is in
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