... Focusing on select works by Vietnamese socialist photographers, this chapter examines revolutionary forms of looking. The photographers’ approach to revolutionary looking by turns affirms and complicates the discourse of enablement that, Phu contends, lies at the core of Walter Benjamin’s...

... Cold War visuality communist Vietnamese photography revolutionary looking ...

... This chapter explores how Stalin now looked to cultivate alliances with imperialist powers like Britain and France against the threat of Nazi Germany. It looks at the decision of the Soviet Union to join the League of Nations, and the decision of the Communist International to develop the theory...

... Carl Schmitt used Mao Zedong’s poem, “Kunlun,” to explain Mao’s “telluric partisanship.” This chapter follows Schmitt examining the poem but instead of words it looks at the brushstrokes. Each brushstroke is a release of telluric energy. Tied to the release of vital energy or qi , Chinese...

... This chapter examines the Chinese Revolution of 1925-27. It begins with a historical overview of China as a victim of European imperialism, and the growth of a nationalist and working-class fightback. Lenin’s understanding of the revolutionary possibilities in China is outlined, and his stress...

... This chapter does three things. First it explains Žižek’s Marxism in relation to two moments in Marx’s thought—that of structural/circumstantial determination and that of ruptural/revolutionary change—by looking at the ways in which Žižek employs Lacan, Althusser, and Hegel in making sense...

... in official historiographies. A closer look reveals a more complicated and much more revolutionary attempt to remake the subjectivity of working men in order to render them legitimate political subjects entitled to all the rights (and duties) of full-fledged citizenship. Populism niños heroes pelados...

... seek to kill Leninism,” James writes, but he remains optimistic. A new interimperialist war is approaching and is likely to be followed by a new wave of revolution, which is likely to look for leadership not to the bankrupt Third Communist International but the genuinely revolutionary new Fourth...

...World Revolution, 1917–1936 In this opening section C. L. R. James surveys the world situation in 1937 and looks at the looming interimperialist war. He notes the betrayal of internationalism and socialism when the Second International supported the Great War of 1914-18, and he notes how...

... In the aftermath of the revolution of 1952 and the agrarian reform of 1953, the historically marginalized rural majorities in the highlands and valleys found an ally in the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( mnr ) government and received the promise of “modernization” if they would exchange...

... objects (white goods) and conceptual forms (the political), the chapter looks into the “stickiness” and the “intensity” of affective energy forms. Traced across cities and continents, and going from West to East, what emerges is a nonlogocentric and heterogeneous way of looking at political “worlding...

...Vernacularizing the Political What was the relationship between sovereignty and revolutionary war among the Filipinos who overthrew Spain and later resisted the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? To what extent was a political theology of sovereignty, inherited...

... This chapter explores the significance of Garveyism to informing Midwest-linked, nationally influential, globally connected early Black Power formations during the early 1960s. A new generation of Black militants in heartland-connected groups, like the Revolutionary Action Movement, looked...

...The Black <italic>Jacobins</italic><subtitle>Texts and Contexts</subtitle> In the third chapter of the section, leading scholar of the Haitian Revolution Carolyn E. Fick recalls working as a student with James while researching her own ground-breaking volume of Haitian revolutionary history...

... , offers his thoughts on The Black Jacobins and its place within the historiography of the Haitian Revolution. Dubois draws out how the work was a pioneering contribution to Atlantic history in particular, as well as to revolutionary history. As he notes, “James’s work did what any great work of history...

...Dictatorship and Democracy The national revolutionary cycle that commenced in 1952 came to a close with the U.S.-backed military coup of General René Barrientos Ortuño in November 1964. Barrientos combined personal charisma and patronage tactics to establish the so-called Military-Peasant...

... 55 years later. It looks at Castro’s socialist proclamation and relations with the Soviet Union, explores the Revolution’s achievements, errors, and current situation. This is a brief history lesson for US readers who never knew, or don’t remember, the events. It sets the stage for Haydée’s story...

... of senses. The chapter is organized in three sections. The first one looks at the geographic spaces inhabited by Cunas and Wayuu. Drawing on Spanish maps prepared as part of military campaigns that sought to conquer maritime Indians, this section uses Spanish cartographic narratives to tell the story...

...Strokes, Not Words Carl Schmitt used Mao Zedong’s poem, “Kunlun,” to explain Mao’s “telluric partisanship.” This chapter follows Schmitt examining the poem but instead of words it looks at the brushstrokes. Each brushstroke is a release of telluric energy. Tied to the release of vital energy...

...Futurity This autobiographical chapter describes the revolutionary trans activist who founded CasaNem, an LGBTQIA+ urban squatter effort that occupies unused buildings to repurpose them as trans housing collectives and centers for community education, health, and human rights promotion...