Friedrich Engels famously spent his working life in the shadow of Karl Marx, a position he now occupies for posterity, and one in which he willingly placed himself.footnote 1 Born in 1820 in the ...

Making’ handed out at Pierrot also recommends: ‘Consider keeping standards as high as possible’. Today, so many residually ...

An English version of Witold Kula’s book has been long overdue.footnote 1 Although its Italian translation has been available for some time, the book has not been as well known to western readers as ...

The family of Khalilullah Rezai occupies a special place in the tormented annals of Iran’s revolution. During the reign of the Shah, Mr Rezai’s children were actively involved in supporting the ...

On the protests in Iran.

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 ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

This influence of Marx on the writing of history is not a self-evident development. For although the materialist conception of history is the core of Marxism, and although everything Marx wrote is ...

It is ironic that Foucault had to go all the way to ancient Greece to grapple with contemporary political problems. Only at that distance, it seems, could he see clearly, like the farsighted reader ...

Chinese cinema’s entry into the global culture market came in the late 1980s, with directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige collecting international awards and critical acclaim for films such as ...

Eliding the means while embracing the end: in classical rhetoric, the passage between the two is effected by enthymeme, whose ...

Brzezinski supported Détente, albeit with mounting tactical criticisms, until the mid-1970s. As I set out, he was seen as a ...