In the early 1930s, Bung Karno [Sukarno] was hauled before a Dutch colonial court on a variety of charges of ‘subversion’. He was perfectly aware that the whole legal process was prearranged by the ...

Geopolitics has never found a congenial place within the Marxist tradition, let alone been properly theorized. Consider the exemplary Nicos Poulantzas, originator of the best Marxist works on the ...

Lynne Segal seeks to ‘make sense of the mélange of contemporary feminism’, wondering whether ‘we can still look to it for a confrontational and broadly transformative politics’. But Why Feminism? does ...

It would be impossible, in a short letter, to deal with all the points raised by Miriam Glucksmann in her critique of Lucien Goldmann (and implicitly of Lukács) in nlr 56. Since, however, this article ...

The Third World ascended like a sky-rocket—and fell like the proverbial stick. Invented by Alfred Sauvy in 1952, in an article in L’Observateur entitled ‘Three Worlds, One Planet’, the term tiers ...

In replying to Richard Merton’s comment on my first article, in nlr 59footnote 1 I take the opportunity to clarify and correct some of my own positions, and also to attack, some basic errors in Merton ...

There is a measure of consensus within feminist theory that rationalist values are in crisis—that the very arrival of women on the scene of intellectual activity necessitates a reappraisal of those ...

Korea is to-day a country of 50 million people, strategically located, and a focus of interest for all the major powers. Up to 1945 the country was a plundered colony of imperial Japan, and the ...

1Georg Lukács, Ästhetik, Neuwied and Berlin 1963 (2 vols.). See, respectively, Vol. 11, pp. 759–66; Vol. 1, pp. 679–80; Vol. 11, pp. 185–8; and Vol. ii, pp ...

It was perhaps predictable that China’s initial sharp rebound from the global financial crisis would serve to entrench widespread perceptions that the prc represents an alternative and, on some ...

Though less well-known in the Anglophone world, the economist turned social philosopher Frédéric Lordon has emerged as one of the most effective public figures of the French intellectual left. On tv ...

During the severe economic crisis of 2008–09, it seemed to many that neoliberalism was finished.footnote 1 The major us banks were facing collapse and survived only through state bailouts. Economic ...