Why’, the young naif Jeffrey (Kyle MacLachlan) asks in Blue Velvet, ‘is there so much trouble in this world?’ Three decades ...

Exponential curves such as these are wreaking havoc upon finite nature. Yet few on the radical left engage in a holistic ...

Among the stories Claessens loved to tell was one about the death of Pieter Bruegel the Elder who, according to Flemish ...

Although a long time coming, Trudeau’s fall has been dramatic. He was elected in 2015 promising ‘real change’ and ‘sunny ways ...

It is not the purpose of this article to offer a detailed defence of Semenov, but rather to propose a similar ‘torch-relay’ theory of historical development. Historical materialism is an evolutionary ...

There is surely no doubt that Fredric Jameson is not only an eminent critic but a great one, fit to assume his place in a roll-call of illustrious names stretching from Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Burke, F ...

The book is full of, one might almost say overflowing with, ideas and interpretations. There are many subsidiary themes which contribute to the main structure of the argument, and these cannot all be ...

Benjamin had what Lukács so enormously lacked, a unique eye precisely for significant detail, for the marginal . . . for the impinging and unaccustomed, unschematic particularity which does not ‘fit ...

The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between two apparently contradictory elements in Marx’s thought; namely, his belief that proletarian revolutionary consciousness will develop in ...