What is dialectical materialism, the method of argument so dear to the Communist heart? The anti-Communist magazine Tarantel in Berlin gave the answer in the form of an anecdote. A priest, it seems, ...

This paper examines the resurgence of interest in the interpretation of quantum theory which occurred in the late 1940s and 1950s, and seeks to uncover its political origins in a perceived clash ...

Another element of the 1939-40 struggle requires attention: its explicitly theoretical-philosophical dimension. Burnham, a professor of philosophy at New York University, declared himself an opponent ...

The idea that humans are innately competitive and cruel is a dominant theme throughout Western thought. These notions that legitimate human cruelty to each other and other animals have their origins ...

Jessica Kingdon takes the title of her debut feature documentary, “Ascension,” from a poem her great-grandfather wrote in 1912 about the downfall of the Qing dynasty. Kingdon’s film also contemplates ...

Socialist Reproduction are to be congratulated for popularising this little-known text of Wilhelm Reich's which appeared simultaneously, in 1929, in Unter dem Banner des Marxismus (the theoretical ...

This is a translation and revision of a major philosophical study which has already appeared in Italian (1948) and German (1952) editions. After an extended historical introduction to Soviet Marxism, ...

The opportunist degeneration of Gerry Healy found its organizational embodiment with the formation of the Workers Revolutionary Party and its practical expression with the launching of the daily News ...

Marx is famous as a social theorist. that is, as one who adopts ‘society’ as an object of theoretical reflection. The aim of the present piece is to argue that he is neither a social theorist, nor ...