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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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by Helena Sheehan (Oct 01, 2021) Topics: Ecology History Marxist Ecology Places: Europe United Kingdom Cover of A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane by Samanth Subramanian. Helena Sheehan is professor emerita at Dublin City University, where she taught history of ideas and media studies. She is also the author of several books, including Marxism and the Philosophy of…
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By John Riddell Published 21 March, 2025 MastodonFacebookTwitterEmail Simultaneously published on Communis and LINKS. Introductory note by Paul Le Blanc What follows is a chapter from a forthcoming volume by John Riddell entitled Lenin’s Comintern Revisited, to be published later this year by Brill as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series. (A year after its publication in hardback, the book…
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Republicans Speak Trump; Democrats, Esperanto Posted on Monday, Mar 24, 2025 6:00AM by Michael Liss by Michael Liss It is more proper that law should govern than any one of the citizens. —Aristotle, Politics Aristotle was an optimist. Try to visualize an old Greek guy in a himation as a talking head on one of the Sunday shows. He’s…
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Posted on Wednesday, Mar 12, 2025 6:00AM by Bill Murray by Bill Murray I. A hundred years ago two battered and beleaguered old men, one an Italian prisoner, the other taken to wandering Irish bogs, arrived at the same fateful truth: the world around them was collapsing. Antonio Gramsci, Marxist theorist, imprisoned member of the Italian parliament, wrote from…
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The First Cell And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last With the fascinating scholarship of The Emperor of All Maladies and the deeply personal experience of When Breath Becomes Air, a world-class oncologist examines the current state of cancer and its devastating impact on the individuals it affects — including herself. In The First Cell, Azra…
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