To understand how a body of thought became an era of capitalism requires more than intellectual history.

By the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr was an avowed socialist.

In this 1979 essay, historian Pierre Vilar reconstructs nineteenth- and twentieth-century Marxist theories of the nation — against the claim that they do not exist. 

Our challenge is to see in technology both today's instruments of employer control and the preconditions for a post-scarcity society.

The success of the American far right in shifting the mainstream is built on the repressed strategies of one forgotten wing of 1968: a particular reading of Lenin’s theory of revolution.

Revolutionary reflections is proud to publish a lost gem of Marxist aesthetic theory by Ian Birchall. Originally the piece was given as a paper at a conference on the Grundrisse and the "total Marx" on 5 June 1971 (the day after the death of Marxist theoretician Georg Lukács). It was published in Situating Marx: Evaluations and Departures, edited by Paul Walton and Stuart Hall (Chaucer Publishing Co., London, 1972), and has been out of print for over 40 years. The author would like to thank James B for transcribing the article and Colin Barker for adding some corrections. The piece focuses on the development of a total theory of literature based on Marx's writings on the subject, and provides one of the best introductions for anyone wanting to understand what Marx wrote on the subject and how we should relate to it. The piece was written before the publication of the English translation of Marx's Grundrisse, and refers to excepts that were available in a book by Eric Hobsbawm and an

The crisis of today’s Italian left has its roots in the transformations of the Italian Communist Party in the 1960s and ’70s.

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At the Baffler, David A. Banks reflects on the largely hidden roll of the engineering professions in upholding the dominant social order. As Banks notes, engineers tend to think of themselves as engaged in ethi…

A piece written by Mario Tronti for a recent issue of Democrazia e Diritto (2010, 3–4), dedicated to the question of populism. Translated from Italian by David Broder.