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  • Holocaust

    1990: “Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide”

    27 January 2020, by Ernest Mandel

    This is the text of Ernest Mandel’s contribution to a symposium on the Nazi genocide held in Brussels in 1988. It was first published in French in Yannis Thanassekos and Heinz Wismann, eds., Révision de l’Histoire: Totalitarisme, crimes et génocides nazis, Editions du Cerf, Paris 1990, pp. 169-74.
    The English translation was published in Gilbert Achcar. ed., The Legacy of Ernest Mandel, Verso, London 1999, pp. 225 - 232.

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  • An Unrepentant ’68er’s Life

    19 January 2020, by Kay Mann

    An Impatient Life by Daniel Bensaïd. Translated by David Fernbach
    Foreword by Tariq Ali.Verso Books, 2013 and 2015, 392 pages.

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  • Our history

    An open history: Blanqui and Bensaïd

    12 January 2020, by Émile Carmes

    All thinkers have their father-thinkers; none more so than Daniel Bensaïd. The figures of Charles Péguy, Walter Benjamin and Louis Auguste Blanqui recur throughout his work. In this article, Émile Carmes studies Bensaïd’s deep engagement over the years with the work of Blanqui.

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  • Feminism and Marxism

    Thinking and acting from Marxism today - Feminist proposals for a theoretical and strategic rearmament

    30 November 2019, by Julia Camara, Laia Facet

    The characteristics of the current crisis, as well as the practical and theoretical course of recent years, have allowed a fruitful dialogue between two of the central theoretical currents of the last two centuries, feminism and Marxism. With a past history of marriages and divorces it seems that in recent years we are witnessing their reconciliation. In the past decade, the literature that is indebted to both currents has been rediscovering, as well as overcoming, some of the historical debates that have marked their relationship. Undoubtedly, the mass growth of the feminist movement has contributed to this. And, on the other hand, it not surprising that during recent years there has been a renewal of academic and activist interest in Marxism: university seminars proliferate, the works of classical thinkers have been reissued and so on.

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