The historical "invariance" of Marxism - Amadeo Bordiga In these 26 theses presented at the Milan Meeting of the International Communist Party in 1952,…
Midnight in the century: notes against progress - Miguel Amorós An examination of the history and significance of the concept of “progress”, its origins as an…
Preliminary discourse - Encyclopédie des Nuisances The introductory essay of the first issue of the journal, Encyclopédie des Nuisances (The Encyclopedia of Nuisances, or Encyclopedia of Harmful…
Pity, manifestos, and the left This article originally appeared in Solidarité Journal of the Radical Left (September-October 2013)
"Preface" to Impasse Adam Smith - Jean-Claude Michéa A provocative introductory essay by the author of Impasse Adam Smith that maintains that the Left, “which has always presented itself … as the…
The school of ignorance and its modern conditions - Jean-Claude Michéa In this 1997 essay, contemporary educational reform is offered as an illustration of not only the…
Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison - Michel Foucault Barely two hundred and fifty years ago man condemned of attempting to assassinate the King of France…
One-dimensional man: Studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society - Herbert Marcuse Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most…
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence.
Fantasies - Noam Chomsky In an ongoing dispute, Chomsky responds to Zizek claiming that he didn't "know a guy who was so often empirically wrong" as Chomsky, and in…
Ideology and class struggle - Pierre Guillaume A classic restatement of the views of Marx and Engels on ideology and the formation of class consciousness, contrasting them with the…