It was Arendt who fused the Marxian and De Tocquevillian traditions in her account of modern totalitarianism (although there ...

Elections in Moldova.

Opposite sat representatives of the Libyan state, a civil party in the case, joined by anti-corruption NGOs and families of ...

Every year, 13 or 14 thousand containers of various goods leave the port of Genoa for Israel. But if they stop the flotilla, ...

Significantly, the unravelling of the peculiarly American phenomenon of mass leisure and mass consumption is not quite a ...

The violence catalysed the biggest urban uprising in Kathmandu’s modern history. On 9 September, enraged crowds set the capital ablaze, torching government ministries, courts, the homes of leading ...

In the early 1930s, Bung Karno [Sukarno] was hauled before a Dutch colonial court on a variety of charges of ‘subversion’. He was perfectly aware that the whole legal process was prearranged by the ...

‘Film is like a battleground’ Sam Fuller, who once wrote a script footnote 1 for Douglas Sirk, said in a film by Jean-Luc Godard, who, shortly before he made A Bout de Souffle, wrote a rhapsody on ...

What is the secret behind Carl Schmitt’s contemporaneity and actuality? The argument relies on a broad endorsement of Schmitt’s interpretation of the age of the ius publicum—the body of maxims and ...

In nlr 86, Geoff Hodgson discussed the ‘tendency of the rate of profit to fall’. Though I agree with his general conclusions, I feel it is necessary to add some further arguments in order to make his ...

In this paper, I want to tackle some of the underlying issues around ‘post-Marxism’ in contemporary social theory, using just one exemplar of this emerging framework, namely Michèle Barrett’s book The ...

The Falling Rate of Profit by Joseph Gillman. Dennis Dobson 1958. 25s. the tendency to a falling rate of profit is one of the main buttresses of Marx’s theoretical structure. Marx develops the theory ...