Ida Susser: The Value of a Left Culture in Combating Worthlessness
Let me first say that I have been waiting for Don Kalb’s new book for a long time! Kalb has been a leading theorist of the growth of…
Tag: Gramsci
Gramsci, popular mobilisation and the power of collective action
John Chalcraft‘s From Subordination to Revolution advances a Gramscian theory of popular mobilisation – how ordinary and marginalised people take collective action against the powers that be. Th…
Abram Lutes: Anatomy of an Autogolpe: On the consolidation of Nayib Bukele’s power in El Salvador
For the first time since El Salvador’s mid-20th century military dictatorship, a single political party dominates both the legislative and executive branches of the government, and by all…
Can the African Subaltern Speak?: Kontinuität kolonialer Macht- und Herrschaftsstrukturen
von Robel Afeworki Abay Sorge um Afrika: alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen? Die rasche Ausbreitung der COVID-19-Pandemie, die der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO) zufolge als eine der größten globalen G…
Kate Crehan: Gramsci/Trump: Reflections from a fascist jail cell
Antonio Gramsci, condemned by Benito Mussolini to twenty years in prison, wrote his celebrated prison notebooks while sitting in a succession of fascist jails. He reflects on some…
33. Iñigo Errejón: Podemos as an emergent cultural practice
Photo credit: ca.wikipedia.org This is the thirty-third post in the freedom technologists series I have pasted below some highlights (in Spanish) of an excellent interview with Podemos’ ‘…