Montly Review

• In the public eye: Andy Merrifield’s “Roses for Gramsci”

  The latest: "....Is 'subaltern' a code for the working classes? Is 'hegemony' an economic force or a cultural power? Are 'organic intellectuals' inherently more progressive? The answers to such questions depend upon your choice of scholar—whether, say, you’re reading a Foucauldian literary critic or a Marxist sociologist, a subaltern historian or a posthuman anthropologist. Over the years, Gramsci’s writing has been polished by critics of such diverse persuasions that it has now become a mirror: One opens his books only to confirm one’s own beliefs....when the English writer Andy Merrifield arrived in Rome, feeling 'washed out intellectually,' Gramsci came to the rescue...."

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• In the public eye: C.G. Beck’s “The Labor of Architecture”

  The latest, in The Architect's Newspaper:
  'There is a specter haunting the field of architecture, and that specter is called “Fuck the bosses”—or class consciousness....'

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• June 24: Workshop on Ian Angus’ “Metabolic Rifts”

  June 29th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.

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• June 27th: Online workshop on Socialist Register 2026

  June 27th, join the Marxist Education Project for an online launch of Socialist Register 2026, featuring Catarina Principe together with Michael Roberts, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Stephen Maher.

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• In the public eye: Gabriel Rockhill’s “Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?”

  The latest: "....Over dammen var livet enklere. I løpet av krigen utviklet Frankfurterskolen sin virksomhet og bygget opp det som skulle bli deres ubestridte merkevare: «kritisk teori». Gjennom de neste tiårene skulle denne gruppa av tyske eksilanter opparbeide seg heltestatus blant akademikere over hele verden. Nå har imidlertid den amerikanske filosofen Gabriel Rockhill kastet sine kritiske øyne på aktiviteten til dette intellektuelle arbeidslaget – også kjent som Frankfurterskolen...."

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