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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
...,” psychoanalytic thinkers who broke with Freud’s old-style liberalism. Freud was neither a communist nor a political radical, but he was the figurehead of a tradition of inquiry and body of knowledge that lent itself to radical political thought and practice. How does psychoanalytic thinking justify...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (2): 115–142.
Published: 01 October 2014
..."day of remembrance of the victims of both Nazi and Communist totalitarian regimes, in the same way Europe remembers the victims of the Holocaust on January 27th:' The Prague Declaration further advocates for the creation ofa supranational"InstituteforEuropean Memory and Conscience" as well...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 55–71.
Published: 01 April 2025
... as Theologian of Revolution (1921). While each of these thinkers sees Müntzer as a proto-communist, each also stresses qualities in him that reflect debates within their own respective generations of communist politics. Against the failings of conservative nationalism and the failure of the 1848 liberal...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 140–176.
Published: 01 October 2018
... cosmopolitans. (I capitalize Conjure to emphasize its intellectual and ideological coherence, and I put communism in lowercase to emphasize its diversity beyond the varying doctrines of the Communist Party.) Their nineteenth-century history suggests that the relationship of Marxismand the Black radical...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 67–83.
Published: 01 April 2020
... closely on what estate laborers achieved, read through the archived anxiety of British agents. A final section covers how the discursive reduction by the British of plantation workers’ struggles to externally authored communist threat functioned as a disavowal of both laborers’ own historical agency...
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 April 2025
...: A Tragedy won the Kleist Prize, the Weimar Republic’s highest literary award. Although Müntzer’s appeal was mostly on the Left, National Socialists also sought to claim him for themselves as a völkisch leader against Marxist interpretations ( Oberman 104 ). But in Weimar it was indeed among communists...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2013
... that almostwithout fail in the other US military interrogators' rooms, the Korean Communist prisoners of war would spit upon the floor before entering. However, when these very same POWs came to Miyamoto's interrogation room, instead of spitting, they would instead ask him why he was working under the US Army when...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 177–208.
Published: 01 October 2018
... sentiment.2 Such fears intensified again after the anti-communist purges of 1965-7, when ethnic Chinese were often suspected of having pro-Communist sentiments, and during the New Order Regime when ethnic Chinese were subjected to a policy offorced assimilation.It was only with the post-Suharto presidency...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (2): 209–232.
Published: 01 October 2018
... ofthecraft.Between 1997 and 2002, Lionel Jospin's Socialist-Communist coalition government, with Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn as its economic mastermind, basically granted investors the power they were asking for and more, authorizing, for example, stock options with very low taxes. In 1999, Michelin...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 183–206.
Published: 01 October 2022
... the Gilets jaunes. If the Poujadist tax rebellion of the mid-1950s occurred to them first, they quickly turned to labeling the Gilets jaunes as fascists in the making, in a replay of Macron’s presentation of himself as the bulwark against fascism in the presidential election in 2017. 4 The Communists had...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 271–282.
Published: 01 October 2022
... embedded in Fantasia resonate anew, especially in the story of the hapless apprentice. Disney, of course, was not the first to use Goethe to capture the dark instability of the modern age. In The Communist Manifesto , Karl Marx also drew upon Goethe to introduce one of his most enduring observations...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 101–121.
Published: 01 April 2023
... European consulates in Jeddah regularly filed reports—at times exaggerated—expressing concern about extensive communist activities and mobilizations in Jeddah and Mecca. A letter from the French minister of interior warned the French consul general in Jeddah that communist leaders in Jeddah and Mecca were...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 140–145.
Published: 01 April 2020
..., “politically I was a child of 1956: of Suez and Hungary, of the collapse of the Communist dream, of the Cold War and of post-war decolonization, and thus of an earlier and very different kind of ‘New Left.’” These corrections situate Hall’s political and intellectual formation, as he puts it, “within—not ‘post...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
...: for example, some historians protested the addition to the objective in 2007 to not only “inform about the Holocaust” but “to also inform about Communist regimes’ crimes against humanity” (Decree 2007:1119; my translation). The addition was supported by liberal and conservative politicians, all using similar...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 20–26.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... Unsurprisingly, European fatalities were the authorities’ main concern. Fast forward to the mid-twentieth century, the Cold War, and US efforts to woo the strategically situated new state of Pakistan to prevent communist gains in South and Southeast Asia. In 1955, Pakistan, along with Thailand...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Women in Barbados . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 1997 . Bhattacharya Tithi , ed. Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression . London : Pluto , 2017 . Boyce Davies Carole . Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... communal agenda. The new authoritarianisms of the current pandemic in South Asia work precisely because they borrow from longer pandemic histories of minority communities—histories of contagious, dangerous outsiders (be they Muslims, Maoists, or Communists) that threaten everyday Hindu life and contaminate...
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History of the Present (2014) 4 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 April 2014
... ofthe Third Republic he had initially struggled to defend. The republic appeared to him while in exile and for the rest ofhis life as purely opportunistic, a hopeless mirage, an assembly made up of"Messieurs the gunmen:'51 For Redus, who would later refer to himself as an anarchist communist, all...
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 193–202.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., it was surely Wilhelm Reich. Outside strictly psychoanalytic circles, the young Reich is best known for his attempts to bring together a certain version of Freud with a certain version of Marx to produce one of the earliest "Freudo-Marxisms:'A militant in the Social Democratic and then the Communist parties...
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 160–197.
Published: 01 October 2013
..., peasant, tribal, and, after 1945, communist uprisings, a number of military coups, and a few attempts to revise the Iraqi-BritishTreaty of lndependence, none of which seemed to satisfy the country's increasingly mobilized popula­ tion. Urban youth ofboth sexes played a prominent role in political protests...