... to discern a politics of the book? This article addresses that question from two angles. First, it sets out a figure for the analysis of political material culture: the “communist object.” This figure is developed through Russian Constructivist concern with the “intensive expressiveness” of matter, Walter...

...Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire's Lettre à Maurice Thorez , which appears here in a new translation by Chike Jeffers, is the Martinican poet, playwright, theorist, and politician's letter of resignation from the French Communist Party (PCF). He first explains his resignation by making reference...

... of the first Chinese empires. It also explains how, in the 1930s, the Nationalist government—and not the post-1949 Communist regime, as is often mistakenly assumed—first launched a project to rectify the Chinese names of the barbarians and replace the derogatory animal classifiers with the standard human form...

... in Paris in September, and his open letter to Maurice Thorez in October, in which he resigned from the French Communist Party. The editorial note places the two pieces in the context of the political currents of French colonialism at the time (on the eve of the Algerian revolution) and of Césaire's own...

... communist and capitalist visions of modernity, China cannot be studied in isolation, as a preexisting thing in itself. Instead of reducing it to a preconstituted object of knowledge, we must ask how China, and the objects in relation to which it exists, have come into being, and how they become stabilized...

... of the revolutionary praxis of the mass line perfected by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1940s. In the post-Mao period, the CCP sponsored political reforms that pursued an alternative strategy of democratic centralism — direct elections at the village level for villagers' committees and for deputies to local...

... was not entirely disrupted: the echoes of the life around the camps were not entirely silenced in the camps; rather, the camps resounded the world. The understanding of both camps in their sharp differences is at issue in the essay—Communist against Jew, Muslim against Judaic and Zionist, Asian against European...

... ago, a number of historians began to revisit the participation of African Americans in the U.S. Communist Party, chal- lenging the consensus of Cold War–period scholars, including Wilson Record and Harold Cruse, that—in the memorable phrase of Mark Nai...

... the Sinophobes,” the Ital- ian writer and Communist activist Maria-­Antonietta Macciocchi, having just returned from a trip to China, praised the Cultural Revolution as a model for the West. Instead of clinging to the “ideal socialism” of the Soviet Union, Macciocchi urged her readers to look...

... victims who are still alive have not been waiting for an apology because they do not expect it. Many who identifi ed once as Communists refuse to say they were, out of fear of pro- voking the heavy opprobrium constructed a half century...

... with a clear ideological perspective was the set of intellectuals closely aligned with the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP). The CPP as a continua- tion of the Communist Party of India (CPI) had some roots in the worker...

... clutter the shelves of an academic room. He was polite, and he asked how I had been. Then he told me that he had received a few letters that accused me of being a communist and an agent of foreign powers. He laid out the facts in the letters, then leaned toward me, touched my wrist, and asked...

... of the NP considered “the communist-led ANC” to fit this bill. Another group hoped for a split between communists and national- ists, whom they considered more amenable without the Soviets and its South African Communist Party client dictating...

... it from the famous Manifesto of the Communist Party of 1848, written by Pottier’s German contempo- raries Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with its final lines: “Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!” (“Proletarians of all countries, unite Social Text 92, Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 2007...

.... While Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International of the Communist Movement was to remain but an idea, as a socialist response to the monumental works of consumer society it was a powerful one. It registered...

... [Josef] Stalin a great, courageous man. He renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to Kwame Nkrumah’s Marxist hellhole in Ghana.” Flynn also noted that given Du Bois’s decision to join the Communist Party, his reception of the Lenin...

... with the definition of revolution based on concrete historical content such as Marxism or the leadership of the Communist Party, thus conflating the “Chinese Revolution” and “the revolution led by the Chinese Communist Party” as equivalent terms. (All writ- ings on the history of the party hold this view...

... the disaggregating power of global capital. During this struggle, she must grapple not simply with the French riot police but also with the emissaries of the local state. The election of the poet and Communist Aimé Césaire as mayor of Fort-de...

... Aguinaldo retreated to the rugged mountainsides of Luzon; and the young Communist parties of China, Vietnam, and Indonesia all made their long marches from the cities to remote rural fortresses. For pre-1940...

.... By April 1924, Trotsky could speak on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Communist Univer- sity for Toilers of the East, and invoke Britain’s support of pan-Islamism in Turkey and Afghanistan, and especially its effort to restore...