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Kevin B. Anderson

Ukraine: Popular Uprising in the Shadow of Putin’s Russia

Ukraine has experienced a popular uprising with serious contradictions, among them the presence of right-wing nationalism and a tilt toward neoliberal capitalism.  Ukraine has since been threatened by…

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Onur Kapdan

Ta’amolati Darbareh-ye E’terazat-e Turkiyah

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by Parvaneh and published in Rah-e Kargar. The original, entitled “Reflections on Turkey’s Gezi Park Protests,” can be accessed HERE. The Persian tran…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Egyptian Military Seeks to Extinguish Revolution

(French Translation) (Hindi Translation) (Persian Translation)  PDF On August 14, 2013, Egypt’s military-police apparatus stormed two largely peaceful encampments of the Muslim Brotherhood, using live…

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Onur Kapdan

Reflections on Turkey’s Gezi Park Protests

This article examines and draws lessons from the Gezi Park protests as a new type of horizontal social struggle that goes beyond earlier Turkish politics, whether leftist or nationalist. It also analy…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Resistance versus Emancipation: Foucault, Marcuse, Marx, and the Present Moment

The concept of specific forms of resistance, rooted in Foucault, has come to the fore in radical thought, replacing earlier concepts of emancipation rooted in abstract universals (Marcuse), but at a t…

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David Black

Contra Sohn-Rethel: On the Philosophical Roots of Anti-Capitalism

Was the birth of philosophy in Ancient Greece a reflex and projection of the generic forms of capitalist exploitation, such as exchange-value, money and the commodity-form? Did commodity fetishism and…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Tunisia on Razor’s Edge after Assassination of Chokri Belaid

The assassination of leftist leader Chokri Belaid on February 6, apparently by Islamists, has brought into the open the long-simmering conflict that has pitted the ruling Islamist Ennahda Party agains…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Lincoln-e Spielberg, Karl Marx and Enghelab-e dovom-e America

Summary: Persian translation by Farzane Raji of Kevin Anderson’s article, “Spielberg’s ‘Lincoln,’ Karl Marx, and the Second American Revolution,” which originally appeared in the International Marxist…

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Kevin B. Anderson

Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” Karl Marx, and the Second American Revolution

The film “Lincoln” shows the radicalization that had taken place in Civil War America by January 1865, with the Lincoln administration allying itself with the Radical Republicans to end slavery.  At t…

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