Simone de Beauvoir’s reputation as a feminist pioneer is well-established, but the influence of Marxism on her thinking is too often overlooked. She wanted to build a socialist movement that would fight class and gender oppression at the same time.
A newly translated best-selling Japanese crime novel set in the 1990s fictionalizes the real-life kidnapping of a candy company CEO. It’s as comprehensive a critique of postwar Japanese society as can fit in a mystery-genre story.
In an interview, author China Miéville explains why Marx and Engels’s Communist Manifesto is such a remarkable work, defending the book against its detractors and arguing that it remains urgently inspiring and deeply relevant.
Slavery in America, Brazil, and Cuba relied on capitalist markets, which supplied credit and demand for slave-made goods. The Reckoning, Robin Blackburn’s monumental history, offers a dizzying account of the politics behind this system’s rise and fall.
As the Democratic Party clings to a message of compromise and conflict aversion, the GOP has adopted a fighting posture that seems to be resonating with working-class Americans.
Liberalism cannot beat back threats of political violence, nihilism, or fascism by appealing to reason alone.
British historian G. E. M. de Ste Croix applied Marxist class theory to the history of the ancient world.
Family, nostalgia and the failure of formal-equality feminism.
If Manning is ever released, he will re-enter a world ready to embrace him, advanced with the understanding to recognize his greatness.
How should we assess the 2008 economic crash — and the political possibilities beyond it?
How we define capitalism and think about its development shapes how we struggle to transcend it.
From Spanish invaders to US imperialists, the Honduran struggle for self-determination has found enemies at every turn.
British Marxist Bob Jessop on David Cameron, New Labour, and the best way to take on global capitalism.
Some lessons from Syriza — and where we go from here.
After the Civil War, workers struggled to make wage labor go the way of chattel slavery.
Two days before the Canadian election, Stephen Harper's Conservatives seem on the verge of losing power.
The BRICS powers aren’t anti-colonial counterweights. They’re looking for new markets and resources for their corporations, just like Western countries.
Illusions on both the Left and Right about China miss how the contradictions of capitalism are shaping that country’s development.
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital.
Fighting corporate trade deals requires uniting with immigrants and foreign workers — not scapegoating them.