By Bernard E. Harcourt In a brilliant essay for Revolution 5/13, “Revolution, History, and the Beyond of Capitalism: Re-reading the Luxemburg-Bernstein Debate,” the philosopher and critical theorist Amy Allen raises a number of timely questions for our collective discussion: Can… Continue Reading
Etienne Balibar Régulations, insurrections, utopies. Pour un « socialisme » du 21ème siècle[1] Les Thèses qui suivent sont, bien entendu, des hypothèses : hypothèses stratégiques, relatives au contenu et aux voies d’une transformation anticapitaliste (qui, par nécessité, commence au sein du capitalisme lui-même et… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt No coarser insult, no baser aspersion, can be thrown against the workers that the remark: “Theoretic controversies are only for academicians.” — Rosa Luxemburg, Reform or Revolution (1899)[1] To break down the conventional division of… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt We are a collective of Black feminists who have been meeting together since 1974… The most general statement of our politics at the present time would be that we are actively committed to struggling against racial,… Continue Reading
By Étienne Balibar In my remarks at Revolution 3/13, I will explore the concept of the “engaged philosopher” in relation to the work of Jean-Paul Sartre and in conversation with Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. I will begin my presentation with Sartre.… Continue Reading
By Remicard Sereme In light of the ongoing graduate student strike at our university, #CUonStrike, we think that it is important to reference the Combahee River Collective’s writings on issues of labor, strikes, and picketing for purposes of our discussion… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt As I mention in my introductory essay for Revolution 4/13, the Combahee River Collective (“CRC”) Statement and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s introduction and interviews in How We Get Free offer a careful and nuanced discussion of “identity politics”… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The Combahee River Collective (“CRC”) statement, written in 1977, remains today a formative declaration of American Black feminism that continues to influence political organizing, critical thought, and social movements, as we have witnessed all around us… Continue Reading
By Remicard Sereme Les Temps Modernes Les Temps Modernes was a French political and literary review founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, his longtime companion, in October 1945. Its last volume was published in December 2018. Les Temps… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt The Gramscian notion of cultural hegemony is what breathes life into the idea of the “engaged philosopher.” It is the condition of possibility for there to be engaged philosophers—or, more precisely, for engaged philosophers to play… Continue Reading