"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…
Philosophy: reading guide A guide for those that are interested in philosophy, but are having trouble knowing where to start. The list is obviously not definitive and…
Technology vs. civilization - Bertrand Louart An essay in which the author claims that “technology is the most highly perfected Materialized Ideology”; “it was not by chance that the…
Primitivism and history - Miguel Amorós An index of key quotations from the utopian and philosophical predecessors of today's primitivism, from Diogenes to Battaille, via the bagaudae,…
'How Noam Chomsky’s World Works', by David Hawkes Noam Chomsky's political writings are extremely useful for any understanding of the crimes of US imperialism. But his scientific work, whose…
