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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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  • Is There a God? Stephen Hawking Gives the Definitive Answer to the Eternal Question

    BY MARIA POPOVA “Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God,” the trailblazing astronomer and leading Figuring figure Maria Mitchell wrote in the second half of the nineteenth century as she contemplated science, spirituality, and the human hunger for truth. Every great scientist in the century and a half since has…

  • What is love – a chemical reaction, a feeling, a choice?

    While the feelings that accompany love might be out of your control, how you love someone is very much in your control. Edith Gwendolyn Nally, The Conversation 42 minutes ago READ IN APP Love is confusing. People in the US Google the word “love” about 1.2 million times a month. Roughly a quarter of those searches…

  • The Historic Anachronism and Necessary Supersession of the State

    By István Mészáros (Posted Nov 25, 2018) Democracy, Marxism, RevolutionsGlobalMonthly Review Essays This previously unpublished essay is taken from volume 1 of Mészáros’s Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State, which remained incomplete at the time of his death in October 2017. —The Editors 1. The Descending Phase of Capitalism and the Historical Anachronism of the State The state, as…

  • Marxism and STS: From Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26

    By Helena Sheehan (Posted Dec 11, 2021) Ideology, Marxism, Media, MovementsEurope, GlobalMonthly Review Essaysco-published, Featured This article is a co-publication of MR Online and Science for the People. At the recent conference of the Society for the Social Study of Science, I came to the conclusion that the history of Marxism in relation to science and technology studies is…

  • Gendered Violence as an Inextricable Thread of Capitalism

    By Maja Solar, Karolina Hrga (Posted Mar 14, 2023 Feminism, Health, Ideology, InequalityGlobalCommentary, Monthly Review EssaysFeatured She is a cashier at the local supermarket, she does repetitive and very exhausting labor, her joints hurt, she often works overtime for a miserable wage, insufficient to be economically independent. When she comes home, she has yet another tiring job ahead of…

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