Mark Blum
 
ABSTRACT
In order to develop the Marxist conception of a ¡°classless society,¡± one where democratic practices and equality among all its members are realized, one must educate the existing society in interpersonal praxis that generates mutual empathy and cooperation. Once such personal skills are normative for the society, t......

Curry Malott
 
ABSTRACT
Derek R. Ford¡¯s Communist Study: Education for the Commons advances communist pedagogy. What is surprising about Ford¡¯s project is that his contribution to Marxism comes from an engagement with work associated with postmodernism¡ªwork largely based upon a rejection of the Marxist tradition. Communist Stu......

Justin Theodra
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK
 
ABSTRACT
In commemoration of the first anniversary of Samir Amin¡¯s passing, I present the following collated review of the three volumes of Amin¡¯s memoirs, which were only just completed with the posthumous publication of The Long Revolution in 2......

 
Isaac Christiansen
 
ABSTRACT
This study creates a nested typology of non-OECD countries to understand the nature of the challenges facing them. Due largely to problems of insufficient data, previous studies have focused on wealthier nations¡¯ political, developmental and health indicators. Developing nations are classified using cluster an......

Chloe Patton
   
Abstract
Amid claims that forced marriage is rife in Australia¡¯s minority communities, 2013 saw the introduction of criminal legislation outlawing forced marriage in Australia. Within public debate, this punitive measure came to overshadow all other modes of addressing the problem; for instance, education programmes, civil ......

 
Bin Yu
Academy of Marxism, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China
 
ABSTRACT
Marxism originated in Western Europe, where capitalism first emerged, but after being disseminated in the East achieved success in China. The reasons lie first of all in the character of Marxism as truth; in the compatibility of Marxism both with the spirit o......

 
Darren J. O¡¯Byrne
 
ABSTRACT
For many, the ¡°Trump phenomenon¡± represents an authoritarian phase of the neoliberal project. For others, it is a manifestation of a broader populist project that is the antithesis of, and arises in part as a reaction against, neoliberalism. Across Europe, political parties hitherto identified with t......

 
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
 
Abstract
This paper engages with the study of the aesthetic as an embodied form and offers a critique of the study of value and commodification that emerges in the global spatial imagination. I explore the neglected interrelationship between cultural-spatial reconstruction and land ownership as a sign of livelihood by way......

Tithi Bhattacharya, Eric Blanc, Kate Doyle Griffiths and Lois Weiner
 
Abstract
Bringing together leading observers of the 2018 teachers¡¯ strikes in the United States, this forum surveys the origins, character, and trajectory of the rebellion as a whole. We examine the relations between union bureaucracies and the rank and file, the wider po......

Susanne Krasmann
 
Abstract
Post-truth regimes are disconcerting to the extent that they confuse the distinction between true and false and thus obfuscate and obstruct political debate. And they dismantle the secret by imitating its habit: they constantly make claims while leaving us to guess what exactly the true content is ¨C or whether there is......