Global Left Midweek – April 10, 2024
Portside
Overviews and takeaways
Overviews and takeaways
Overviews and takeaways
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Strangely Lenin
Portside
This may be the funniest book about Lenin ever published, a generalization difficult to prove because there have been thousands of books about Lenin in hundreds of languages.
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What a Legendary Historian Tells Us About the Contempt for Today’s Working Class
The Guardian
A century after his birth, EP Thompson’s empathy with those facing scorn and condescension is more relevant than ever. The first paragraph starts: “The working class did not rise like the sun at an appointed time. It was present at its own making.”
Marxism & Class
MR OnLine
The working class should not be positioned as the most vulnerable in need of help, but as those who labour and deserve a just distribution of the fruits of their labour. The working class comes not with a begging bowl, but with a clear strong voice.
Lessons From Gramsci for Social Movements Today
Dissent
From Gramsci’s political thinking and practical strategizing come a set of ideas that arguably have only grown more salient with time.
Barbie: Marxism for Gen Z
Foreign Policy in Focus
Is Barbie out to change the world or just her own life?
Media Bits and Bytes – June 27, 2023
Portside
Leftys look at AI, the writers' strike ties up the entertainment market, and news gets strip-mined
Mandela’s Black Marxism
Africa is a Country
Nelson Mandela is deified everywhere. But typically missing is an account of his early years, when he insisted that Marxism be responsive to South African conditions.
Michael A. Lebowitz (Nov 27, 1937 – April 19, 2023)
https://michaelalebowitz.com/
Michael A. Lebowitz was Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University in Canada and the author of many books on marxism.
A Framework To Help Us Understand the World
Hammer and Hope
Out of a common history emerged racism, capitalism, and the whole world. This offers us a clue on how to change that world.
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