radical philosophy

Lenin and Gandhi

The theme I shall address today has all the trappings of an academic exercise.* Still, I would like to attempt to show how it intersects with several major historical, epistemological and ultimately political questions. As a basis for the discussion, I will posit that Lenin and Gandhi are the two greatest figures among revolutionary theorist–practitioners [...]

Who needs postcoloniality?

In Marx’s articles for the New York Tribune on British colonialism in India and the events leading to the Second Anglo-Chinese War (Opium War), critics have caught sight of a double mission attributed by him to British imperialism and colonialism to tear down the structure of archaic societies and lay the foundations for a new [...]

Marxism and war

War for Marxism is not exactly a concept, but it is certainly a problem.* While Marxism could not invent a concept of war, it could re-create it, so to speak – that is, introduce the question of war into its own problematic, and produce a Marxist critiqueof war, or a critical theory of warfare, war [...]

Marx and the philosophy of time

Haitian inspiration

Antonio Negri and Danilo Zolo

Revolutionary romanticism

The significance of the twentieth century

Agnes Heller

Cantor, Lacan, Mao, Beckett, meme combat

Radical Conservatism, or, the Conservatism of Radicals

Society for European Philosophy: Lancaster University, 16-18 September 1998

Walter Benjamin and surrealism

Messianic ruminations: Derrida, Stirner and Marx

A Sweet and Sour Victory in Eastern Europe

Socialism and Myth

The Cunning of History in Reverse Gear

1984 and all that

Why Habermas?

Revolution and Discontinuity