The responsibility of intellectuals - Dwight Macdonald In the April 1945 edition of politics, Dwight Macdonald took aim at the collective-guilt mentality…
The ignorance of the society of knowledge - Robert Kurz A short 2002 article by Robert Kurz on the hype about the information society, with its “knowledge…
An interview with Noam Chomsky on the Spanish revolution - Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo (2009) In this 2009 interview originally published in Spanish, Noam Chomsky answers…
Rebellion and conservatism: the lessons of 1984 - Jean-Claude Michéa A transcript of a 1995 talk in which Michéa discusses the continuing relevance of the ideas of the…
From workers autonomy to social autonomy: the experience of Socialisme ou Barbarie. An interview with Daniel Blanchard - Amador Fernández-Savater Daniel Blanchard (a/k/a Pierre Canjuers) discusses his experience as a member of…
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…
David Graeber Interview with ReadySteadyBook Radical academic David Graeber speaks to ReadySteadyBook about his ideas on Marxism, his expulsion from Yale University and anarchist…
The Twilight of Vanguardism David Graber looks at how intellectual vanguardist attitudes have continued into an age when revolutionary vanguardism is meant to be a thing of the past.
Anarchism and Anti-Intellectualism in Russia - Paul Avrich Excellent article by historian Paul Avrich on anti-Intellectual tendencies in Russian anarchism
The function of intellectuals in society and their task in the proletarian revolution - Franz Seiwert and Franz Pfemfert A debate on "intellectuals". Seiwert, an artist, writes a somewhat incoherent anti-intellectual piece and Pfemfert, editor of Die Aktion responds with a critique.
Corrupting left intellectual culture. Essay - Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ 1994 essay in Here & Now magazine highlighting the need to modernise radical theory.
