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Deluge is a word that bears its Norman ancestry proudly. You would never find it in a Winston Churchill speech. Okay, that last statement was a lie. Churchill spoke of a deluge of violence in Ireland, but nonetheless, it is not an Anglo-Saxon word like the Prime Minister famously preferred. What has happened on campus,...

We can have a form of progress which overcomes the contradictions of the current form; but this requires revolutionizing the social relations we exist in. It

This writeup is merely intended to present a chronology of the books Nietzsche published or readied for publication in his lifetime. Many of these were ...

February’s Review of the Month confronts the new irrationalism and its reactionary tendencies, which find their roots in troubling philosophical and historical…

Atticus Lish’s first novel won widespread acclaim. His eagerly awaited follow-up stoops to the level of cheap Netflix show.

It’s been seven years since American novelist Atticus Lish’s first book won an enthusiastic reception. Now, here comes the difficult second novel.

Martin Heidegger was born in the town of Messkirch of Baden on September 22, 1889. He went on to study theology (Roman Catholic) at the university of Fr...

I Married a Corporation If your wife says-she’d like a career, pause and consider the sad case of this husband. Soon after his spouse went back dancing he found himself doing the housework and answering to "Mr. Elizabeth Leese” May 15 1953 KEN JOHNSTONE I Married a Corporation KEN JOHNSTONE May 15 1953 I Married a Corporation If...

December 14, 2020 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Against the Current — Writing in the 1920s, the Peruvian Marxist José Carlos Mariátegui introduced a uniquely Latin American perspective on revolutionary socialist movements and theories. He famously noted, “we certainly do not want socialism in America to be a copy. It has to be a heroic creation.”[1] This political dynamism is what made him into an intellectual force with lasting relevance. M...