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There was never revolutionary potential in the Liberated Zone. I wrote in April that there were always two likely outcomes: that Martha Pollack would dismantle the encampment outright, as police did at Columbia and UCLA, or that she would trust in the existing cultural order to prevent the demonstration from reaching any sort of leveraged […]

Ben Ware on how despair can pave the way for political liberation.

Taking Ukraine’s side means truly believing that the human species has a future. Not only as a species, but as a species characterized by humanity

In this introduction to his forthcoming The Dialectics of Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2024), John Bellamy Foster charts the relatively recent reconstruction…

In the 1960s, especially in radical student circles, there were many fanciful ideas floating about. The most pernicious and erroneous of these was the view represented by Herbert Marcuse, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, that “neo-capitalism” had evolved ways of avoiding capitalist crisis, and that the working class had been integrated into the system as passive consumers in the “affluent” society. As Daniel Morley explains, these were the pseudo-Marxist ideas of the so-called Frankfur...

Daniel Loick examines the use of tribunals by artists and activists.

The American sociologist Dylan Riley on fascism, thinking as therapy and the crisis of capitalist democracy.

It is, indeed, a great pleasure for me to avail myself the opportunity to say a few words on the occasion of the 10­0th birthday of the late Professor A. K. Nazmul Karim, who was my teacher, supervisor and colleague at the Department of Sociology,

This article will be released in full online February 14, 2022. Across the humanities and the social sciences, critical attention is being given to the nonhuman…

Yann Martel and the Holocaust novel