Écrit par Étienne BALIBAR Même s’il n’est pas l’ouvrage « communiste » le plus diffusé dans l’histoire (cette place étant occupée par le « petit Livre Rouge », autrement dit les Citations du Président Mao Zedong, qui concurrence presque la… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The philosopher Amy Allen draws our attention, brilliantly, to a deep tension in the thought of both Marx and Du Bois, one that can be formulated as a question: If we equate wage labor to slavery,… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar During Abolition 5/13, I made reference to the Marx-Bakunin matter. Let me elaborate here. The “conspectus” (or critical notes) of Marx after his reading of Bakunin’s book Statism and Anarchy in Russian were written in 1874-1875 in… Continue Reading
By Dan-El Padilla-Peralta For our convening, I offer for consideration a figure who occupies a marginal and possibly spectral position in the writings of Marx and Du Bois – the Native American – because of a process that, though targeted… Continue Reading
By Amy Allen E. B. Dubois’s Black Reconstruction revolutionized the historiography of the Civil War. DuBois’s reading challenged then dominant modes of interpretation by giving agency to the slaves, making the case that they freed themselves by abandoning Southern plantations… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar, translated by Xavier Flory Afterword to a new edition[1] Although not the most widely disseminated “communist” book of all time—that honor belongs to “The Little Red Book,” or Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, which is almost in… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar “The expropriators are expropriated”: This is one of Marx’s most celebrated sentences, which is to be found towards the end of the chapter on « The Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation », Chapter 32 of section 8… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt “What is a picklock to a bank share? What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man to the employment of a man?” —… Continue Reading