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The politics of reading
Black Panthers in a reading circle, (Photo: Pirkle Jones) The politics of reading Originally published: Simplifying Socialism on June 12, 2026 by A. J. Horn (more by Simplifying Socialism) (Posted Jun 15, 2026) Culture, Human Rights, Ideology, LiteratureGlobalNewswire The act of reading is so much more than following text with your eyes or—if you prefer audiobooks—with your ears. Done properly, reading…
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Challenge Magazine Today marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest and most influential socialist nation. Prior to the founding of the PRC, China had suffered through the ‘Century of National Humiliation.’ Foreign powers seized… vast amounts of Chinese territory and drove the Qing government into immense…
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Dear friend, 1978. 1982. 2006. 2024. Once again Israeli military forces muster to the North, preparing to invade Lebanon. On Wednesday, Herzi Halevi, the head of Israel’s military, set out the plan to his troops in plain terms. “Your military boots,” he said, “will enter enemy territory.” And on Saturday, Israel warplanes assassinated Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of…
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by Jingyi Zhang (Sep 01, 2024) Topics: Capitalism Feminism Inequality Marxism Political Economy Places: Asia India Jingyi Zhang is a PhD student at the Department of International Development, King’s College London. Smitha Radhakrishnan, Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022), 272 pages, $27.95, paperback. Microfinance has become a salient sector for poverty reduction in the developing world since its inception in the…
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By Fredric Jameson (Posted Sep 26, 2024) History, MarxismLost & FoundFeatured, Fredric Jameson This essay was originally published in Monthly Review 47, no. 11 (April 1996). ~ (Dedicated to the memory of William Pomerance) First Thesis “Postmarxisms” regularly emerge at those moments in which capitalism itself undergoes a structural metamorphosis. Marxism is the science of capitalism, or better still, in…
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