25 Truths to Build Adjunct Power Despite Precarity newpol.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newpol.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Common Sense in the Form of Theory counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the ideological disciplines the humanities and social sciences it is rare to come across a theoretical work that doesn’t seem to fetishize verbiage and jargonizing for their own sake. From the relatively lucid analytical Marxism of an Erik Olin Wright ((See Russell Jacoby’s savage review of Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias entitled “Real Men Find Real Utopias,”
His new book The Class Matrix: Social Theory After the Cultural Turn is an impassioned argument for centering class politics in both theory and praxis.
Frantz Fanon’s 'The Wretched of the Earth' captures the revolutionary possibilities of decolonisation. Yet, the book has been marred by a misreading that turns the great thinker into a prophet of violence.