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In 2010, three cardboard boxes of Victor Serge’s papers were discovered in the archive of his late widow, Laurette … Read the rest
Tag: Revolution
‘. . . we begin to recognise the monuments of the bourgeoisie as ruins even before they have crumbled’ Walter Benjamin
This epigraph from the critical theorist Walter Benjamin prompts … Read the rest
The current Arab ‘revolutions’, pose anew some venerable questions of revolutionary transformation, not least whether they will result in fundamental changes to economic life in the region or, as Antonio … Read the rest
Question: what connects a 26-year-old Tunisian market-stall holder, who died in 2011, with a French civil engineer who died in 1922?
Answer: a theory of revolution – written … Read the rest