To understand how Facundo was written one should remember the circumstances of Sarmiento’s exile, fleeing from Juan Manuel Rosas’s regime, to Santiago de Chile. There he became an influential ...

The following article is an analysis of the political forces and strategies at work in Bolivia in the period prior to the overthrow of the nationalist General Torres by the rightist General Banzer in ...

In the sphere of Marxist aesthetics, Goldmann’s unqualified relegation may have been somewhat premature. In the first place, it should be borne in mind that the charge of ‘historicism’ remains generic ...

Collini begins by relieving the phrase ‘cultural criticism’ of its everyday ambiguity. It is not, or not only, criticism of culture. Culture is what animates and orients the critical practice, whose ...

Red banners, red flags, red carpets. The people in the Great Hall appear to be red beings themselves. If you lift your head, you can see the meeting is commemorating the centenary of the May Fourth ...

Many Soviet politicians have attracted the attention of the world’s press over the last ten years but very little has been said or written about Mikhail Suslov. He kept himself to the shadows, ...

The article by Karl Kautsky printed below is a singular text. It is well-known that Kautsky evolved a theory of ‘ultra-imperialism’, a supreme phase of capitalist development which would banish all ...

Of course, there will be stupidities enough, and cliques of every kind too, but so long as it is possible to keep them within ...

Amid the recent outpouring of books and articles rehabilitating the purposes and practices of empire, two works have stood out for their unflinching scrutiny of British colonialism in Kenya. David ...

Georges Lefebvre wrote his historical study of the Great Fear during the French Revolution in 1932, and its publication in English is belated but welcome. footnote 1 Its subject was a problem which ...

Perry anderson’s New Old World combines an original set of arguments about the evolution of the European Union with deeply informed analyses of the political cultures of some of its major states and ...

The traditional right-wing emphasis on law and order has an additional valence in today’s Chile, signifying not only the ...