They have invested too much political capital in this goal of ‘victorious’ peace to walk away now. It is still to early to ...

The profitability of this new global order underpinned a symbiotic alliance between financial and industrial capital. By ...

Recent events in Europe have posed once again the problem of the relation of socialism to democracy. What are the fundamental differences for you between bourgeois democracy and revolutionary, ...

Fifteen hundred cars had to burn in a single night and then, on a descending scale, nine hundred, five hundred, two hundred, for the daily ‘norm’ to be reached again, and people to realize that ninety ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...

Up till the 1970s, the notion that the Rest would follow in the footsteps of the West was intrinsic to the dominant development paradigm. Through industrialization and urbanization, the ...

The thesis of the end of art has become a familiar slogan: radicals take it as a truism; they reject or ‘suspend’ art as part of bourgeois culture, just as they reject or suspend its literature or ...

Social welfare or the social services, operating through agencies, institutions and programs outside the private market, are becoming more difficult to define in any society with any precision. As ...

Over the last decade, a series of works offering a comprehensive vision of the state of the world after the end of the Cold War have enlivened the tenor of mainstream intellectual life. These have ...

While I was fishing in the dull canal’; but it is also that of ‘the violet hour, the evening hour that strives / Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea’. This range of tone was one of the ...

In a problematic specifically concerned with explaining twentieth-century socio-political developments, the questions of how and when classes are formed also raise other problems not encompassed ...

In times like these, the very appearance of an essay like Oliver Eagleton’s offers a glimmer of hope.footnote 1 His critique of my work is both historically conscious and generous towards the often ...