Counter-violence, a ‘Hegelian’ myth

Minor variations on the master-slave dialectic

Matthieu RenaultRP 2.10 (Summer 2021)

Beyond a doubt Hegel knew about real slaves and their revolutionary struggles. In perhaps the most political expression of his career, he used the sensational events of Haiti as the linchpin in his argument in The Phenomenology of Spirit. The actual and successful revolution of Caribbean slaves against their masters is the moment when the […]

Decolonizing revolution with C.L.R. James

or, What is to be done with Eurocentrism?

Matthieu RenaultRP 199 (Sept/Oct 2016)

Time would pass, old empires would fall and new ones take their place, the relations of countries and relations of classes had to change, before I discovered that it is not quality of goods and utility which matter, but movement, not where you are or what you have, but where you have come from, where […]