By Shaunna Rodrigues This note is going to follow the question that Bernard Harcourt posed in his blog for the 8/13 Praxis Seminar. How do we explore communism’s ideal form through doing rather than through theory? There were many… Continue Reading
By Rosalind Morris What could be more difficult than to conjure the idea of and commitment to communism in these avaricious and increasingly unequal times? To conjure it, as in 1847, in response to and in defiance of a recurring… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The “Idea of Communism”: The place to start Praxis 8/13, naturally, is to underscore the distinctly Platonic resonance of the expression itself and of our object of study. To discuss the “Idea of Communism”—with a capital… Continue Reading
By Aristides Baltas Translated by Chloe Howe Haralambous 0. What follows does not aspire at anything but a summary of a reading or, perhaps more accurately, an extended commentary on Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History”. This… Continue Reading
By Aristides Baltas Translated by Chloe Howe Haralambous This opening question mark aims to underline two matters from the offset: first, that this volume was not written under conditions of theoretical certainty and quietude, in which an affirmative framing… Continue Reading