Arno J Mayer’s 20th century
The historian helped transform the writing of history – and with it our understanding of the modern world.
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Marx and Keynes can free Labour from its budget bind
Rachel Reeves needs a new economic narrative to break the fear of deficits and debt.
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EP Thompson’s dystopian visions
His science fiction novel tackled two fears: atomic annihilation and AI determinism.
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The Marx whisperer
The geographer David Harvey’s videos on Capital have made him an internet intellectual. But he has been observing the carnage…
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Is another American revolution inevitable?
An interview with Peter Turchin.
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The long shadow of the Iraq War
How do you mourn soldiers killed in an “unjust” war? For years the town of Wootton Bassett showed us how.
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What Chantal Mouffe gets wrong
The Belgian philosopher’s influence on today’s left is unquestionable, but the transformative potential of her ideas is held back by…
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The left’s patient gardener
Mike Davis, the Marxist historian and urban theorist, died in October aged 76. As a theoretical innovator, his singular approach…
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History according to EH Carr
The historian was prescient in warning that the value of facts depends on who wields them.
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The conflicted legacy of Karl Marx
A century and a half ago, Das Kapital, the bible of 20th-century revolutionaries, predicted the overthrow of capitalism – but also the rise…
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