Marxist Moments

STOCK TAKE

 

          Going through my back files I find blogs of mine that are unlikely to merit much further attention, for a number are somewhat thinnish, ephemeral in a journalistic  sense or now no longer of so much contemporary interest.

          Since each according to their own taste, however, I’m not deleting anything previously posted. Instead I offer a guide to blogs that I think are worth visiting or re-visiting for one reason or another, either because of subject or quality or both.  A few I consider of some importance. I won’t mention the others not listed here. Or you can be ornery and read only the blogs I don’t list.

          And so I proceed backwards from the present blog as follows:

Selected List – Backwards to 2016

My Plan for Brexit

Saving the Planet

REVIEW:  A Radical History of the World by Neil Faulkner

Sneaky Tories?

‘What If?’

His Dark Materials

Aesthetics: Marxism’s Achilles Heel?  (Warning: a biggy.)

History and Drama (Another biggy.)

A Modest Proposal: a Fable for Our Times

Spinoza Was Right!

Bootle’s Wand

The New Devil’s Dictionary

Look Familiar?

A Marxist at the Movies 4 – Spectacle

Spivvy Banks

Owen Jones and Banks

REVIEW: Fictitious Capital by Cedric Durand

Pangloss Is Back

Crisis? What Crisis?

A Marxist at the Movies 3 – Interlude

A Marxist at the Movies 2 – The Hollywood Eye

A Marxist at the Movies 1 – Jon Boorstin

Concentrating the Mind Wonderfully: Ulysses S Grant

Cardigan Rightwinger Strikes Again

REVIEWS: Out of the Night by Jan Valtin / Decline of American Capitalism by Lewis Corey

‘We get signals the system is under stress’…

Moments in History

At It Again

You Couldn’t Make It Up

Fundits

In Praise of Teachers

Where is This Leading? (2)

A Crisis in Ideology

Re-reading Reading Capital

Where Is This Leading? (1)

What Is Total Revolt? (Warning: a major essay – quite lengthy)

REVIEW: Paul Mason and Armageddon

The Queen, Rationality and Economics

The Conundrums of History

The Historical Materialist and the Concept of History (Warning: of Considerable Length.) For what it’s worth, I consider this the best piece I’ve ever written, and the only one with bibliography. Admittedly the intended readership is academic but I write it as presenting an intellectual boxing-match, a rumble in the Marxist jungle of the late 1970s between the late British historian EP Thompson and the late French philosopher Louis Althusser, both avowed Marxists: who hit the canvas first? Though in fact the two never met and it’s probably just as well they didn’t. I think any ordinary reader can be gripped by a death-struggle even if the material being struggled over is only partially understood. A lot of those who follow the ponies avidly don’t know anything about horses except their form, if that.

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Various essays on historians and history theorists….