Sarah Jaffe - Emotions on Strike

Burnout is not a problem we can individually solve. It is a symptom of a world set up to exhaust us to the point where we cannot resist.

The word dates back at least to the 1970s, but it’s become something of a buzzword in recent years, and even more recently has been attached in particular to millennials, after journalist Anne Helen Petersen wrote a viral 2019 Buzzfeed article on the subject. In Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, Petersen uses her personal story as a jumping-off point and attempts to generalize outward. Like other authors propelled from viral article to not-really-advice book, Petersen responds to some of her critics in an attempt to build a stronger, deeper case that she’s writing about a pervasive social problem. “It was about a work ethic and anxiety and exhaustion particular to the world I grew up in,” she writes, “the context in which I applied to college and tried to get a job, the reality of living through the biggest economic collapse since the Great Depression, and the rapid spread and ubiquity of digital technologies and social media. In short: It was about being a millennial.”

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/emotions-on-strike

Patrick Joyce - Going to My Father’s House. A History of My Times

A historian’s personal journey through complex questions of immigration, home and nation

From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, deindustrialised Manchester, Joyce finds that ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts?

Patrick Joyce’s parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland, he felt a tension between notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father’s House charts the historian’s attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places the house, the street, the walls and the graves that formed his own identity. He asks what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.

George Novack - Existentialism versus Marxism: Conflicting Views On Humanism (1966)

There is an increasing division between Existentialism and Marxism, despite Jean-Paul Sartre’s attempts to bridge these two influential philosophies of the twentieth century. The chief difference lies in the rational and irrational conceptions of the nature of the universe and of society. Included in this original and rich anthology are such classic figures as Nietzsche, Marx, and Engels, and such modern thinkers as Sartre, Camus, Marcuse

Jean van Heijenoort - With Trotsky in Exile: From Prinkipo to Coyoacan

Ещё в возрасте 15 лет будучи учеником колледжа в Клермоне Жан вступает в молодежную коммунистическую группу, а после переезда в Париж уже студентом лицея увлекается троцкизмом. В 1931 году он знакомится с Иваном Крайпо, одним из лидеров французского троцкистского движения. В 1932 году Жан присоединяется к Коммунистической лиге, французской секции Международной левой оппозиции. Осенью 1932 года Раймон Молинье предлагает кому-нибудь из членов Коммунистической лиги, знающих французский и русский языки, отправится к Льву Троцкому для помощи в работе с корреспонденцией. Хейеноорт соглашается с предложением, и 20 октября 1932 года прибывает на остров Принкипо, где Троцкий с 1929 года живёт в изгнании. Хейеноорт становится личным секретарем Троцкого и находится рядом с ним с небольшим перерывом до ноября 1939 года.

Вскоре после прибытия на Принкипо Хейенорт вместе с Троцким и Наталей Седовой отправляется в поездку в Копенгаген, а затем сопровождает Троцкого в его передвижениях по другим странам эмиграции: Франции, Норвегии и Мексике. Ни один из других секретарей не был с Троцким так долго. На основе своей работы рядом с ним, Хейеноорт написал книгу воспоминаний «С Троцким в изгнании: от Принкипо до Койоакана» (1978).

Игорь Перников - Хлеб социальный, высший сорт

Мухаммед Шукри и его возмутительная проза

Марокканский прозаик Мухаммед Шукри родился в ужасной нищете, подростком бежал из дома и зарабатывал контрабандой, а читать и писать научился только к двадцати годам. Все это не помешало ему стать одним из главных марокканских авторов постколониальной эпохи. Игорь Перников о книгах Шукри, в которых литература стала радикальным протестом против несправедливости и угнетения

https://gorky.media/context/hleb-sotsialnyj-vysshij-sort/

Ian Sanjay Patel - We're Here Because You Were There: Immigration and the End of Empire

What are the origins of the hostile environment for immigrants in Britain?

Drawing on new archival material from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ian Sanjay Patel retells Britain's recent history in an often shocking account of state racism that still resonates today. In a series of post-war immigration laws, Britain's colonial and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean, Asia and Africa were renamed immigrants. In the late 1960s, British officials drew upon an imperial vision of the world to contain what it saw as a vast immigration crisis involving British citizens, passing legislation to block their entry. As a result, British citizenship itself was redefined along racial lines, fatally compromising the Commonwealth and exposing the limits of Britain's influence in world politics. Combining voices of so-called immigrants trying to make a home in Britain and the politicians, diplomats and commentators who were rethinking the nation, Ian Sanjay Patel excavates the reasons why Britain failed to create a post-imperial national identity.

The reactions of the British state to post-war immigration reflected the shift in world politics from empires to decolonization. Despite a new international recognition of racial equality, Britain's colonial and Commonwealth citizens were subject to a new regime of immigration control based on race. From the Windrush generation who came to Britain from the Caribbean to the South Asians who were forced to migrate from East Africa, Britain was caught between attempting both to restrict the rights of its non-white colonial and Commonwealth citizens and redefine its imperial role in the world. Despite Britain s desire to join Europe, which eventually occurred in 1973, its post-imperial moment never arrived, subject to endless deferral and reinvention.

Emanuele Saccarelli - Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism: The Political Theory and Practice of Opposition

This book examines the legacy of Antonio Gramsci and Leon Trotsky in the shadow of Stalinism in order to reassess the very different and distorted academic reception of the two figures, as well as to contribute to the revitalization of Marxism for our time. While Gramsci and Trotsky lived and died in a similar fashion, as revolutionary Marxist leaders and theoreticians, their reception in academia could not be more different. Gramsci has become tremendously popular, becoming a central figure in many disciplines, while Trotsky remains largely ignored. Saccarelli argues that not only is Gramsci popular for the wrong reasons--being routinely distorted and depoliticized even when rescued from his contemporary users, Gramsci remains inadequate. Conversely, the fact that Trotsky remains beyond the pale of ''theory'' is a terrible indictment of the current state of academic thinking.

Ирина Суслова, Никита Кучинский - «Птички, которых заперли
в клетке»

Как в Беларуси осудили студентов, участвовавших в осенних акциях протеста

16 июля в Беларуси объявили приговор 12 молодым людям по «Делу студентов», возбужденному после октябрьских протестных акций и забастовок, проходивших во многих беларусских университетах. DOXA рассказывает, как власти Беларуси объявили войну студенчеству и каково беларусским студентам видеть друзей, с которыми они сидели за одной партой, в наручниках за решеткой.

https://doxajournal.ru/uni/birds_in_a_cage

Thomas M. Twiss - Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy

During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development.

Максим Стельмак - К вопросу о националистических взглядах и антисемитской агитации в Сибири в период Гражданской войны

Во время революции и Гражданской войны одним из наиболее острых вопросов стал национальный. В агитационных и пропагандистских материалах антибольшевистских сил он стал занимать не последнее место. Тема евреев, их ответственность за военно-революционные события неизменно находили свое место в публичном дискурсе. Наиболее подробно данный вопрос был изложен в работе О. В. Будницкого, рассмотревшего степень участия евреев на стороне различных политических сил в годы Гражданской войны. Тщательный разбор истории национальных отношений проделан в работах томских исследовательниц И. В. Нам и Н. И. Наумовой. Омский историк А.В. Сушко поэтапно осветил различные стороны национального вопроса в Сибири во время функционирования антибольшевистских политических режимов

https://scepsis.net/library/id_4016.html

Jean Stefancic, Richard Delgado - Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge

Critical Race Theory has become a dynamic, eclectic, and growing movement in the study of law. With this third edition of Critical Race Theory, editors Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic have created a reader for the twenty-first century - one that shakes up the legal academy, questions comfortable liberal premises, and leads the search for new ways of thinking about our nation's most intractable, and insoluble, problem - race. The contributions, from a stellar roster of established and emerging scholars, address new topics, such as inter-sectionality and black men on the "down low." Essays also confront much-discussed issues of discrimination, workplace dynamics, affirmative action, and sexual politics. Also new to this volume are updated section introductions, author notes, questions for discussion, and reading lists for each unit. The volume also covers the spread of the movement to other disciplines such as education. Offering a comprehensive and stimulating snapshot of current race jurisprudence and thought, this new edition of Critical Race Theory is essential for those interested in law, the multiculturalism movement, political science, education, and critical thought. Richard Delgado , University Professor of Law at Seattle University, is one of the founding members of the Conference on Critical Race Theory, and the author of Critical White Studies. Jean Stefancic is Research Professor of Law at Seattle University, and author of No Mercy: How Conservative Think Tanks and Foundations Changed America's Social Agenda.

К. Митрошенков - Как читать «Исторический роман» Георга Лукача

О знаковой работе венгерского философа и литературного критика

«Исторический роман» одна из самых известных и влиятельных работ Георга Лукача о литературе, хорошо известная на Западе и недостаточно изученная в России, хотя она была написана в СССР 1930-х и тогда же опубликована на русском языке (по частям, в журнале «Литературный критик»), но полноценного книжного русскоязычного издания все еще не удостоилась. Почему об этом исследовании, укорененном в культурной политике сталинской эпохи, по-прежнему пишут ведущие западные интеллектуалы-марксисты, каковы его основные идеи и как читать эту книгу сегодня?

https://gorky.media/context/kak-chitat-istoricheskij-roman-georga-lukacha/