What Is Materialism?
Nicolas D Villarreal gives depth and meaning to an often fraught concept with ample currency in contemporary left-wing circles: materialism. As counterintuitive as it might …
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What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None …
The Antinomies of Nietzschean Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Jonas Čeika’s ‘How to Philosophize with a Hammer and Sickle: Nietzsche and Marx for the 21st Century Left’ (Repeater Books: London, 2021). …
The Role of Marxist Philosophy
Drawing from the work of Marxist philosophers such as Althusser and Lukács, Yanis Iqbal outlines the basic premises of dialectical materialism. The French Marxist Louis …
Striking Without Threatening: On Marxism, Ethics, and the Truth of Communism
Roxy Hall responds to ΔΜ’s argument for a Marxist virtue ethics, arguing that Communism is itself a wholly new ethical system. Love what you …
The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy: On the Relevance of Lukács’s Worldview Marxism and The Destruction of Reason
Daniel Tutt looks to the philosophy of Georg Lukács and his critique of bourgeois irrationalism to explicate the role of intellectuals and worldviews in the …
The Philosophical Structure of Education
Yanis Iqbal summarizes a dialectical materialist approach to knowledge and education, drawing from the work of E.V. Ilyenkov. When education becomes a commodity – when …
Worse than Dead: A Critical Response to McKenzie Wark
James W reviews McKenzie Wark’s Capital is Dead. Nearly a year has passed since the publication of McKenzie Wark’s short book Capital is Dead: Is This …
Unmasking Social Construction with Djamil Lakhdar
Donald and Rudy are joined by Djamil Lakhdar to discuss Ian Hacking’s book The Social Construction of What?. Written during the “science wars”, Hacking intervenes …
The Materialism of Warm-Stream Marxism: Ernst Bloch on Ibn Sina
Daniel Tutt writes on German Marxist Ernst Bloch’s engagement with the Islamic scholar Ibn Sina and its potential for revitalizing materialist philosophy. The Marxist philosopher …
Spontaneous Philosophy in Science and Activism
The Cosmonaut crew sits down to discuss Althusser’s Lectures on Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists. We historically situate the text and talk about Althusser’s conception of …
Marx Beyond the Mystics
Continuing our theme of exploring the relationship between religion and socialism, Peter Claassen argues that the influence of Christian Mysticism on Hegel impacted the thought …