Among the stories Claessens loved to tell was one about the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder who, according to Flemish ...

Although a long time coming, Trudeau’s fall has been dramatic. He was elected in 2015 promising ‘real change’ and ‘sunny ways ...

Alan Macfarlane’s principal objective in The Origins of English Individualism footnote ＊ is to prove that there was no peasantry in England during the middle ages and that attempts to describe the ...

In the 19th century, the father of Italian Marxism was Labriola, who corresponded with Engels and Plekhanov. After the formation of the Third International, its historical centre became Gramsci. Both ...

The concept of revolution in Marxian theory telescopes an entire historical period: the final stage of capitalism; the transitional period of proletarian dictatorship, and the initial stage of ...

Ralph Miliband’s recently published work, The State in Capitalist Society,footnote 1 is in many respects of capital importance. The book is extremely substantial, and cannot decently be summarized in ...

What has come to be known over the last ten years or so as ‘the labour process debate’ has been, literally, very much an academic exercise. And now its academic participants are pronouncing its end: ...

It was a Swiss doctor, Johannes Hofer, who in 1688 coined the term ‘nostalgia’, from the Greek nostos—return home, and algia—longing. Not so much an ancient passion as a pseudo-classical creation of ...

My book The Concept of Socialist Law challenges the view that an ideal socialist society would have no need of law.footnote 1 While thinkers on the Left advocate socialism in the name of justice, they ...

Conflicts over land are on the rise in Tanzania.footnote 1 Almost daily, the news headlines announce five deaths here, two more there, on account of land-use struggles. Spokespeople for the ruling ccm ...

Both the strengths of the New Left’s critique of domination and its underlying weaknesses reveal themselves, with particular sharpness and clarity, in the attraction of the New Left to an intellectual ...

Anthropological studies in Britain grew up in the context of European, and especially British colonialism as a part of the colonial situation. Anthropologists for the most part did not question the ...