Search Results for communism

...Gavin Walker Since the turn of the twenty-first century, the term communism has returned to the theoretical and historical agenda with a striking force and a surprising novelty. In a wide range of fields of knowledge, the questions of the actuality and the history of the world communist movement...

...Alessandro Russo The new debate on communism requires exploring two essential distinctions: between a political and a philosophical term, and between experimental and governmental communism. This twofold division, this article argues, has a contemporary urgency, which is based on an assessment...

...Sandro Mezzadra; Brett Neilson Arguing that the actuality of communism cannot be abstracted from the materiality of politics, this article engages with the works of Bruno Bosteels and Jodi Dean by affirming the radical innovation produced by the qualification of communism as a “real movement...

...Susana Draper This essay connects Jodi Dean’s and Bruno Bosteels’s works on the “horizon” and the “actuality” of communism with some of the problems that constituted the political landscape during the past decade in Bolivia and in the past years (2011-13) of Occupy Wall Street. It proposes...

..., 1914–1991 . New York : Vintage Books . Ingerflom Claudio S. 2000 . “ De la Russie à l’URSS” (“From Russia to the USSR”) . In Le siècle des communismes (The Century of Communisms) , edited by Dreyfus Michel , 113 – 22 . Paris : Editions de l’Atelier . James C. L. R...

...Lily Wiatrowski Phillips Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Lily Wiatrowski Phillips W. E. B. Du Bois and Soviet Communism: The Black Flame as Socialist Realism ^^espite the recent renaissance in scholar­ ship on W. E. B. Du Bois and the inclusion of Du Bois s writings...

...Yuri Slezkine Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Yuri Slezkine Primitive Communism and the Other Way Around Most socialist realist texts embodied move­ ment: from spontaneity to consciousness, from darkness to light, and from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom...

...Carole Boyce Davies 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Carole Boyce Davies Deportable Subjects: U.S. Immigration Laws and the Criminalizing of Communism...

...Robbie Lieberman The Culture of Politics: Communism, Americanism, and the People s Songs Hootenanny Robbie Lieberman In the summer of 1941 Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger attended a sing­ ing party in Seattle which the locals called a Hootenanny. In the fall of 1941 the Almanac Singers Woody...

... economic forms broadens our capacity to recognize political tendencies in the present and resources for building communism. communism transition Marxism What does the concept of “transition” presuppose? Does transition make sense only if you know exactly where you have been and where you will end...

...Donald Rowland Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 SOUTH ATLANTIC COMMUNISM IN LATIN AMERICA Donald Rowland RECENT events have focused attention on the Communist prob­ lem in the American republics. Local administrations have justified restrictive measures as necessary to combat...

...Alan K. Manchester Communism in Latin America . By Alexander Robert J. . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1957 . Pp. x , 449 . $9.00 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 283 events considerably more than such equally important problems...

...John Shelton Curtiss Stalin and German Communism: A Study in the Origins of the State Party . By Fischer Ruth . Preface by Sidney B. Fay. Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1948 . Pp. xxiii , 687 . $8.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 625...

...Charles W. Arnade Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 COMMUNISM IN BOLIVIA Charles W. Arnade HERE IS NO DOUBT that today s predominant issue is I Communism. Communism in Asia and in Europe is frequently discussed. The United States is awakening more recently to a danger­ ous...

...Charles I. Glicksberg Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 ANTI-COMMUNISM IN FICTION Chariest I. Glicksberg IF ANTI-COMMUNIST FICTION has not been a more flourishing genre, if the crusade against Communism has not be­ come a literary obsession, the reason is of the same order...

...Illyricus Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 TITO S BRAND OF COMMUNISM Illyncus TITOISM, communism without Moscow control, has been a much-talked-of heresy since 1948, but no further Titoists have appeared on the international scene. An intractable and exact model of the U.S.S.R...

...Raúl Prada Alcoreza In contrast to more orthodox visions that have tended to define communism as the satisfaction of needs through the centralized planning of markets, Raúl Prada sets out to analyze communism as “the real movement that abolished the present state of things.” This alternative vision...

...George Ciccariello-Maher When Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez died in March 2013, he left behind an unfulfilled dream that was never his alone: that of the “communal state.” Amid the complicated maneuvering of the post-Chávez era, this aspiration—which would see the expansion and unification...

... the development of organs of power external to the Party. I conclude with a consideration of the way in which the notion of the commune poses a countermodel for thinking political organization that any current reconsideration of the party form must address. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References...

... their already precarious architecture and design. I explore the ideological and material ruins of incarceration, wherein irregular bodies of sovereign force (death squads legitimized by emergency) and new expressions of criminal community ( maras ) offer divergent incarnations of political power. The essay’s...