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What does Karl Marx have to say about climate change? Quite a lot, according to a new book.
Over 50 years, over 50 million copies have been sold. Pink Floyd’s masterwork will continue to resonate with listeners for a while yet.
‘Late capitalism’ is referenced in books, articles and as a trending meme. But what are the origins of the term – and what does it describe?
Crises are no longer something to fix but situations to manage.
From the 1870s on, continual improvements in living standards became a birthright – not for everyone, but for humanity as a whole. King Charles III inherits a different future.
Marx’s thought was groundbreaking. His primary interest wasn’t simply capitalism. It was human existence and our potential.
Fanon was brutally honest in his criticism of militants and Africa’s post-independence elites.
Grimes finds solace in The Communist Manifesto after her split from Elon Musk, but what can she learn from reading Marx and Engels? A political theorist explains.
Post-colonial writing has expanded the concept of tragedy beyond Western thought.
John Locke and John Stuart Mill don’t provide much in the way of justification for ignoring public health advice in a pandemic. Mikhail Bakunin, however…
Shakespeare understood that our fate depends on fostering the humility and empathy that dethrones money and transforms it into something we use to advance the common good.
At the height of Reaganism, close to half of Americans believed a phrase popularized by Karl Marx actually derived from the US Constitution. It doesn’t, but scholars have traced it to the Bible.
After the pandemic is over, grocery workers and nurses will still be essential. But will they be paid any better?
The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
In economics classes, relentless growth is an unquestioned dogma. Yet this same economic growth is rapidly ripping apart the ecological foundations of our world.
The book, Marxism and Freedom was written in 1958. Yet, it remains relevant today.
Statues to divisive figures are increasingly becoming the target of protest and vandalism.
The real lessons of Jesus Christ as outlined in the Bible are socialist. But the Church, a veritable old boys club, doesn’t teach us that.
Many Americans seem to like seeing communist ideas in action, but have a visceral reaction to the word ‘communism.’ Might it be time to refresh an old ideology with a new set of terms?
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Professor of Political Theory, University of Bristol
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Professor of Politics, University of Sydney
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Adjunct professor, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Research Professor, Hertfordshire Business School, University of Hertfordshire
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Senior Lecturer in Business and Economic History, University of Dundee
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Tutor in Philosophy and Sociology, Deakin University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in History & Theory of Art & Design, Bath Spa University
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Professor of Public Policy, University of Maryland
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Visiting Professor of International Relations, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, University of Pretoria
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Philosophy of Science, Durham University
