Takaichi also appeared to immediately betray the LDP’s promise of ‘change’ by appointing seven scandal-ridden politicians to ...

General Francisco Franco, whose forty-year dictatorship—the longest of any in Western Europe in the twentieth century—effectively divided Spanish society into the victors and vanquished of the bitter ...

In his review of The Long Twentieth Century, Robert Pollin advances three surprising criticisms.footnote 1 All three criticisms concern what I have called ‘systemic cycles of accumulation’. These ...

For perhaps a decade after the demise of New Critical theory, New Critical practice lingered on. Indeed as Richard Ohmann has shrewdly suggested, it was a practice eminently suited to the pedagogical ...

The actual term ‘authoritarian populism’, however, only emerged in 1978 after I read the concluding section to Nicos Poulantzas’s courageous and original book, State, Power, Socialism, which was ...

As we go to press, Régis Debray is about to stand trial in Bolivia. The military authorities who claim to try him have announced him in advance ‘guilty’ of the fabricated charges against him. The ...

The prize-winner in the contest for the greatest blunder of 1998 was a Latin American patriotic terrorist who sent a letter-bomb to a us consulate in order to protest against the Americans interfering ...

Let’s dispose of some red herrings at the outset. First, I share virtually all the values and concerns of degrowth advocates. I agree that uncontrolled economic growth produces serious environmental ...

Laclau starts with a critique of Poulantzas’s theory of ideology, as developed in his book Fascism and Dictatorship.footnote 4 Although he sees Poulantzas’s work as a great advance over purely ...

The idea of the primitive has long been a potent and highly influential current in British thought and history.footnote 1 In particular, the period 1918–30 saw primitivism established as an important ...

There has been one serious attempt to come to grips with the problems posed by Golding’s novels: in the February number of Twentieth Century for 1960 Ian Gregor & Mark Kirkard-Weekes published an ...

In the 19th century, the father of Italian Marxism was Labriola, who corresponded with Engels and Plekhanov. After the formation of the Third International, its historical centre became Gramsci. Both ...