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Marxism and Literature in the 21st Century

In an interview with Louis Bourgeois, philosopher Renzo Llorente discusses the relevance of Marx to literature in the post-Cold War era, the role of artistic creation in a classless society, and the neglected power of the aphorism as a literary form.

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Points of Arrival

Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class composition method risks a voluntarist view of capital’s counteroffensive and leads to a flawed critique of revolutionary organization.

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Israel's Lobby Under Review

Abel Bisrat reviews Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, finding a worthwhile expansion of previous scholarship for our contemporary era rather than a mere retreading of work by authors like Mearsheimer and Walt. Yet more work remains in mapping the class fractions behind Zionism and its stranglehold over …

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Garrisoning White Power

Julian Assele reviews Gautham Rao's White Power: Policing American Slavery, arguing that its analysis of how racial domination determined American policing and notions of "public order" is further strengthened by a grounding in Marxist categories of labor command and capital accumulation.

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Letter: What is the Material?

October 8, 2026

“Reality is not just a division of mind and matter, reality presents itself as a laminar stack flow of complex orders that rest on simpler orders. Love rests …”

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Letter: The Realism (Not) Found in Marx

October 2, 2026

“Kateb's article was sincerely argued and reached some important conclusions, and I appreciate the attempt to explain many of these technical concepts to the lay public such as …”

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Letter: In Defense of Party Democracy, or a Tent Without Poles

September 30, 2026

“Democracy can be a frustrating thing. In accepting the equality of all participants in the democratic process, we must accept many with whom we have strong disagreement or …”

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