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  • Maria Popova: The Secret Behind 20 Years of Daily Writing

    The writer behind the legendary blog “The Marginalian” David Perell May 13, 2026 vMaria Popova is famous for her personal blog, The Marginalian, where she’s published more than six million words. All the nights I’ve spent reading her writing were like an entry point into intellectual curiosity. She’s introduced me to more writers and ideas than just…

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  • Marxism Is the Product of a Struggle for Political Freedom

    BYANDREW BONNELL It’s important to place the leading figures of Marxism in the context that shaped them. That context has to include the repressive state structures and extreme inequalities of Europe in the early 20th century, which made revolution seem inevitable. New issue coming soon. Subscribe to our print edition today. The Essential Guide to Jacobin…

  • The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg

    AN INTERVIEW WITHLEA YPI Rosa Luxemburg is an icon of the socialist movement who died a martyr’s death in 1919. But she was also a brilliant and highly original political thinker whose ideas about capitalism and how to oppose it are strikingly relevant to today’s world. New issue coming soon. Subscribe to our print edition…

  • Rosa Luxemburg

    The Party School Speech to the Nuremberg Congress of the German Social Democratic Party (September 1908) Spoken: September 14, 1908.Source: German: Ausgewählte Reden und Schriften, II (Berlin: Dietz Verlag, 1951), pp. 311–14; English: Selected Political Writings Rosa Luxemburg, 1971, edited by Dick Howard.Translated: (from the German) John Heckman.Transcription/Markup: Ted Crawford/Brian Baggins.Proofread: Einde OᰱCallaghan (May 2016).Copyright: Monthly Review Press © 1971. Printed with the permission of Monthly…

  • The World’s Economic Centre of Gravity Is Returning to Asia: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2023)   Han Youngsoo (Republic of Korea), Seoul, Korea 1956–1963.   Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In October 2023, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) published its annual Trade and Development Report.…

  • The civilisation myth: How new discoveries are rewriting human history

    In an evolutionary eyeblink, our species has gone from hunting and gathering to living in complex societies. We need to rethink the story of this monumental transition By Michael Marshall 27 June 2023 Coke Navarro FOR almost all of human existence, our species has been roaming the planet, living in small groups, hunting and gathering, moving…

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