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Antonio Gramsci: his philosophy explained

Marxist, journalist, political leader and social theorist Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was a small, disabled, chronically ill man from a poverty-stricken Sardinian background. He was also someone about whom the Italian fascist state famously declared: “We must prevent this brain from functioning for twenty years.”

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Friday essay: ‘cultural Marxism’ is a conspiracy theory for our time

June 17, 1969. Prominent left-wing German political philosopher Herbert Marcuse is delivering a lecture at the Teatro Eliseo in Rome. Marcuse is in mid-flow when someone in the audience interrupts him:

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5 Life Lessons From Bhagat Singh That Will Sharpen Your Mindset, Discipline, And Purpose

He Read Like His Life Depended On It, Because It DidBhagat Singh was arrested at 23 and hanged at 23. In the months between, he read everything he could get his hands on inside Lahore Central Jail: Marx, Lenin, Upton Sinclair, Bertrand Russell, Victor Hugo. Jail records show he requested…

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‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras

I’ve met many hardcore, violent fans, but the hostage-negotiating, cocaine-smuggling, Marxist-Leninist Alessandro Casolari still stood out

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Was Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’ on right or left?

Letters: Readers respond to an editorial about rescuing the economist from being invoked by rightwing free-marketeers

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Jürgen Habermas obituary

Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule

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‘If I was 18 now, there is no way I would go to university only to leave with huge debts and poor job prospects,’ analyst says. He’d be an electrician

The AI macro doomsday scenario is not for 2028, says Albert Edwards of Societe Generale. “It’s here right now!”

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These images beat nearly two million entries to win Oppo’s Photography Awards 2025

Oppo has announced the global winners from its largest photography competition to date

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Kirby Air Riders Best Characters (And How To Unlock Them)

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How to Unlock Marx in Kirby Air Riders

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College Graduates Put Socialism Back on the Ballot

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign shows how the rhetoric of working-class revolution now resonates most with the highly educated.

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Morning Mail: ‘poor doors’ for affordable housing tenants, Cop summit begins with dire warning, Nancy Pelosi to quit

Sydney harbour development treats affordable housing tenants differently from other residents

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New York Post’s anti-Mamdani front page is a hit – with his supporters

‘On your Marx, get set, Zo!’ edition of Murdoch-owned tabloid is a hot property – with one copy selling for $355

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Trump allies erupt over Mamdani win: ‘On your Marx, get set, Zo!’

Captured on the New York Post cover, Maga allies respond to Democrats’ election sweep with accusations and fury

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Gopal Balakrishnan on The Progress of Europe and Stagnation of Asia

The problem at issue in Marx's reflections on variations between pre-bourgeois forms of communal ownership (Indian, Slavonic, Mediterranean, and Germanic) was the genesis of the defining social relations of modern bourgeois society out of a separation of the laborer from the means of labor- the opposition of capital to a…

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Michael Evans obituary

Other lives: Manchester University lecturer who became an authority on Karl Marx

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David Graeber argued against ‘Great Man’ approaches to knowledge, but it seems his fate to become one

David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum exhibition, it is part serious memorialisation, part entertainment, and part invitation to play.

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Frederic Jameson: Beloved Authoritarian

His famous erudition was attached to his nightmare politics.

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Fredric Jameson, the world’s greatest Marxist critic, is dead – long live Utopia!

There are writers and critics, theorists and gurus. And then there is Fredric Jameson. Or there was. Because on September 22, at the age of 90, undimmed and over-productive as ever (three books in 2024 alone!), Jameson passed quietly away.

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Slow Down To Save The Planet, Says Japan's Rock Star Philosopher Saito

As Tokyo's millions put in another day's work on the coalface of capitalism, celebrity Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito and his friends are clearing rocks from a muddy mountain stream.

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Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah by Ian Buruma review – a man of his time… and ours

A brisk and engaging biography of Baruch Spinoza, the man who inspired many secular Jewish thinkers, is least convincing when it offers him as an example of ‘cancel culture’

Reason

Algorithm Not for Sale

Plus: Kamala Harris' abortion clinic visit, Karl Marx's hypocrisy, CDC data struggles, and more...

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When Marx met Confucius: Xi Jinping's attempt to influence China's intellectual loyalties has met with a mixed reception at home and abroad

A new film series produced in China, When Marx met Confucius, was viewed more than 8 million times in the first two weeks after it was released online in October. But this is not another blockbuster drama of the sort China has been adept at producing in recent years, but…

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Have we reached the end of nature? Our relationship with the environment is in crisis

Recently, I encountered the thought-provoking expression “God is dead, Marx is dead and I don’t feel so well myself.” I wonder if it is now the time to update this by adding “Nature is dead”?

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Himalayan tree-huggers and a landscape of vulvas: the eco-show where women call the shots

The Barbican’s new exhibition looks at the way ecofeminism has evolved – from anti-nuclear protests at Greenham Common to ‘multiple clitoris’ art

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