Lajos Vajda, Leopard and lilies (1930-1933) As the title says: this is a reading of Gayatri Spivak, with no claims to definitive answers or to foreclose the text for other…
The present-day capitalist economy in China is a capitalist economy which for the most part is under the control of the People’s Government and which is linked with the state-owned…
Dialectical materialism works like cocaine, let’s say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will…
Image: Machinery, by Hugo Gellert I’d consider this a must read for the contemporary left. Camatte ruthlessly critique the fixation with the programmatic movements of the 19 and 20th century.…
I was recently made aware of a quite interesting critique by Dragan Plavšić of Slavoy Žižek and Agon Hamza’s book From Myth to Symptom: The Case of Kosovo, and a following exchange…
Communism as the Idea, Communism as the Real Movement Today communism stands before what we can call a ”double bind” between the “real movement” and the idea. On one hand,…
In the Swedish summer of 1968 a quite curious incident takes place, a man walks into a ‘cell’ of Maoists with new orders from the central committee: saw the legs…
Fascism and Envy One of the best lessons of Zizek is envy as a major source of racial hatred. We’re here not speaking of mere material, consumerist envy but rather,…
This is the first part of my musings of the usage of the word “Marxism”, dealing with its symbolic (mis)usage by the political right, in the second I will ponder…
Here I’d like to voice my opinion on how the process of Communism can still save the criticized thesis that it ‘abolishes the state’. I’ll base myself in the philosophy…
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