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Reading Althusser: The Structural Science of History

“True” Philosophy

Did Marx Believe in Teleology?

The Modern Monetary Trick

How Should You Be?

Artisanal Intelligence: What’s the Deal with “AI” Art?

On Work in Socialist Society

Hegel and the Nazis

Freedom to Criticize and Unity of Action

The Movement and the Goal

Hegel’s Views on Language

Wage-Labour and Capital

Daniel Burke and the LaRouche Cult

The Myth of Nestor Makhno

On Practice

Materialism, Realism, and the Theory of Reflection

Marx to Ruge

The Judgment of Past Philosophies

Freedom and Necessity

Lin Jue Min’s Farewell Letter to His Wife

A Socialist, Feminist, and Transgender Analysis of “Sex Work”

The Melian Dialogue

Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: My Experience of China Today

The Meaning of Gandhism

The Acid Test

Two Discoveries: The Basis of Modern, Scientific Socialism

Neo-Kantian Agnosticism and “Shamefaced” Materialism

Stalin and Stalinism in History

Losurdo interviewed by Eychart

Thoughts on the Marxist Center Conference

The Case for Socialized Ownership

The Hovel, the House, and the Palace

What is History?

Frantz Fanon’s Engagement with Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic

The Black Man and Hegel

A Fearlessness Worthy of a Better Cause

On Interest, Rent, and Profit

Psychoanalysis and Marxism

The Empirical and the Holistic Turn: A Hegelian Dialectics of Technoscience Revisited

Engels and Science

AFL-CIO’s Dark Past

Against Bourgeois-Liberal Distortions of Leninism on the Negro Question in the United States

Elisabeth’s Nietzsche

The Attitude of the Workers’ Party to Religion

Marx’s Law of Value: A Critique of David Harvey

Marx and Keynes in Berlin

Zionism and the Tragedy of the Palestinian People

Excerpts from <em>An Autobiography</em>

The Problem of Recognition in Transitional States, or Sympathy for the Monster

Transgender Liberation: A Marxist View

Sectarianism vs. Ecumenism: The Case of Lenin

The Intellectual, the State, and the Political Party

Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

Stalin’s Shoemaker

<em>What Is To Be Done?</em> (Abridged)

Revolutionary Silhouettes: Plekhanov, Lenin, Trotsky

The Syllogism

Reply to a Letter from the Trotskyites

The Overthrow of Religious Authority and the Eradication of Superstition

Dialectics

For the Benefit of Machian Muddleheads

The Difference Between Materialism and Kantianism

Domenico Losurdo’s <em>Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel</em>

The Meaning of Hegel

Why Do We Have To Study Theory?

On Lenin’s <em>Philosophical Notebooks</em>

Ask a Foolish Question

On Three Short Stories

The Lost Horse

The Billionaire

Infiltration, Incompetence, and Philosophy

Principles of Communism

Stalin on Churchill

The Transformation Problem

On Anthony Bourdain

On the Question of Religion

Ilyich’s Favourite Books

The Study of Philosophy and of Historical Materialism

The Relationships Between Capitalists

Anarchism vs. Nationalism in Palestine

Interview about <em>The Battle of Algiers</em>

Myths About Ideology and False Consciousness in Marx and Engels

The Imperialist Partition of Africa

Reason Governs the World

For Israel, the Palestinians are tools that can be disposed of at will and abandoned

Nelson Mandela at the City College of New York

From Opium Wars to Oil Wars

Why can’t we be friends?

On Losurdo’s <em>Stalin</em>

Workers’ Democracy

Making Capitalism Great Again? A Critique of the “Rentier Takeover” Thesis

Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat

Ads Don’t Work That Way

Make Way for Winged Eros!

Engels on the Importance of Theoretical Struggle

Compromise and Sacrifice

Romanticism

On the Significance of Militant Materialism

The Organization of Self-Education

General Rules for Independent Study

On Self-Education

Letter to the New Republics

The New Economic Policy

The Taylor System and the Organization of Work in Soviet Institutions

The International Origins of Nazism

“A Fair Day’s Wages for a Fair Day’s Work”

Letter to <em>Otechestvenniye Zapiski</em>

Marx, Chernyshevsky, and Economic Stages in Russia

Labour and Labour-Power

Domenico Losurdo’s <em>Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns</em>

Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

On Comrade Bordiga’s Sterile and Negative “Left” Criticism

Two Letters From Kutais

Commodity Fetishism

How is it to be done?

Concessions and the Development of Capitalism

Letter To Old People

Socialism and Cooperation

Real Dialectic

An Address to Anarchists

Marx Against Hegel? Idealism, Materialism, and History as Liberation

Between Liberty and Slavery: The Tangled Paradox of Liberalism

Imperialism and the Split in Socialism

Emergency Measures: Mao-Era Computer Development and Huawei

The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy

Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism

On Proudhon

Combat Liberalism

The People Need Art, But Art Needs The People Even More

Preemptive War, Americanism, and Anti-Americanism

Speculative Attacks and Financial Crises in the 1990s

Radical Antimodernism and Nonactuality: Nietzsche and Heidegger

A Way To Think About Writing

The Cadre: Backbone of the Revolution

Communist Action in Low Tide

Lenin and <em>Herrenvolk</em> Democracy

The Constitution: A Bulwark Against Democracy

Mumblecore Millennialism and Me

Dividends Are Not Royalties

Long, Queer Revolution

Reformists, Revolutionaries, and Social Liberals

Hordes of Rapists: The Instrumentalization of Sexual Violence in German Cold War Anti-Communist Discourses

Theses on the National and Colonial Questions

Communist Self-Confidence

The Communist Party

<em>Dulce et Decorum Est</em>

Nihilistic Resignation

The Evaluation of Stalin is Essentially an Ideological Struggle

A Lenin Folktale

Domenico Losurdo interviewed about <em>Liberalism: A Counter-History</em>

Domenico Losurdo interviewed about Friedrich Nietzsche

Xi on Marx

Chernyshevsky’s Ethics and Aesthetics

The Anthropological Principle in Philosophy

Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G. A. Cohen

Remarks to Yaroshenko

England in 1845 and in 1885

Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy

The Celebration of Nature and the Ideology of Reactionism

How Gene Sharp’s Neoliberal Nonviolence Shaped the Left

Karl Marx interviewed by the <em>Chicago Tribune</em>

Hands, Tools, Weapons

Diodes

The Material Basis for Revolutionary Optimism

Robert Christgau, Das Racist, and Something About Youth Culture

The Women’s Liberation and Gay Liberation Movements

What is Fundamentalism?

Aroma and Shadow: Marx vs. Nietzsche on Religion

Against Psychopolitics

Dialectics and “Artificial Intelligence”

Capitalist Technology

The Mystery of the Origin of Profit, Interest, and Rent

Sanctions within a Regime of Neo-Liberalism

“Comrade!”

Imperialism’s Death Spiral

John Stuart Mill’s <em>On Liberty:</em> Only for the Exceptional Few

Concessions

The Logic of U.S. Intervention

Global Rollback: After Communism

Socialism or Reformism?

The New Faction of Conciliators, or The Virtuous

The Two World Views of the Russian Revolution

“Black Ribbon Day” and “Double Genocide” in Canada

Malcolm X interviewed by Robert Penn Warren

The Magistrates Should Be Elected By The People

Marx Meets Weitling

Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society

Brief Analysis of the Social Structure in Guinea

Bourgeois Liberalization Means Taking the Capitalist Road

The Case of Martin Heidegger: Philosopher and Nazi

The Philosophical Roots of the Marx-Bakunin Conflict

On Hegel

A few brief remarks regarding the course of my study of political economy

Imperialist Feminism

Was Hegel an Authoritarian Thinker? Reading Hegel’s <em>Philosophy of History</em> on the Basis of his Metaphysics

All Stories Are True

The Social Function of Science

Suddenly, a leopard print sofa appears…

The Kievsky Mixtape

Artifacts and Blockbusters

The American Working Class: Friend or Foe?

On the Relationship Between The Arts and Politics

The Welfare State and Collective Imperialism

A Cuban Quixote: Alberto Bayo

How can one choose to reason falsely?

Where do <em>mama/papa</em> words come from?

Economic War on Asia: South Korea and the Asian Tigers

False Witnesses

Lenin and the National Liberation Struggle

Our Opportunity

Guidelines for Myself

How Lenin Studied Marx

On the Abolition/Preservation of the State

“Left-Wing” Childishness

Civilized Barbarism

Theses on Anarchism

Tolstoy and the Modern Labour Movement

National Liberation and Culture

Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories

The Social Basis and Logic of Trotskyism

Some Parables and Metaphors

Concerning Problems in Literature and Art

The Negation of Abnegation: Marx on Consumption

The Birth of Poetry

Grand narratives then and now: Can we still conceptualise history?

Creating the Innocent Killer: <em>Ender’s Game</em>, Intention, and Morality

On Jargon

Closed-Doorism, Adventurism, and Phrase-Mongering

Fascism at Home and Colonialism Abroad

Ways of Objectifying

On the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution

The Aesthetic Relations of Art to Reality

Why Read Chernyshevsky?

Duel Between Two Literatures

Nietzsche, the Chinese Worker’s Friend

From Hegel to Lenin

<em>Mein Kampf:</em> Hitler’s Love Letter to Western Imperialism

The Pen is a Major Tool

Reading the “Unreadable” Marx

Six Sermons on Communism and Religion

How to Cast a God into Hell: The Khrushchev Report

An Adventure of Persistence

On Contradiction

Democracy is Not an Ornament

Remarks to Enver Hoxha

Water Droplets Drilling Through Rock

Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing”

The Narrative Devices of Criticism: <em>Capital</em> vs. <em>Breaking Bad</em>

The NGO-ization of Resistance

Surveying a Complicated Environment

Being Chavista

Dialectical Materialism Is the Worldview and Methodology of Chinese Communists

Clevinger

From Practice to Theory, or What is a White Woman Anyway?

J. V. Stalin interviewed by Roy Howard

Isaac Asimov on <em>1984</em>

Critique of Hegel’s Dialectic and General Philosophy

The Two Terrors

Excerpts from “A Poisonous Weed”

Theory and the Gang of Four

The Rise and Fall of the Gang of Four

Regarding the Construction of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

The Theodicy of Marxism: Anti-Engelsianism and its Historic Function

Has China Turned to Capitalism? Reflections on the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism

So you’ve decided you want to abolish the value-form. Now what?

Marxism is a Science

The Dialectic in China: Maoist and Daoist

The Logic of Stupid Poor People

What is Dialectics?

Self-interested Anti-imperialism

Objective Laws of Socialist Economic Development

Discourse on Colonialism

Domenico Losurdo interviewed by <em>Opera Magazine</em>

A Critical Read of <em>Animal Farm</em>

Conspectus of Bakunin’s <em>Statism and Anarchy</em>

The Banality of Genius

Postmodern Geekdom as Simulated Ethnicity

Social Classes: Necessary and Superfluous

“Potato Sack” History

This is a Great Struggle

Losurdo and Roberts

On the Question of Dialectics

An Extremely Condensed Summary of <em>Capital</em>

When the Sky Refuses to Fall: Xu Zhangrun’s Viral Coronavirus Reckoning

Notes on Darwin

A Brief History of the Black Panther Party and Its Place In the Black Liberation Movement

Trotsky on “State Capitalism”

Understanding Lenin

A Brief History of American Vigilantism

The Social Basis of the Woman Question

Blind and Dumb Criticism

Really Existing Fascism

18 Theses on Aristocratic Marxism

On Stalin

What Was Primitive Accumulation? Reconstructing the Origin of a Critical Concept

Women and the Myth of Consumerism

Constitutional Illusions

Fidel Castro interviewed by Jas Gawronski

Introduction to <em>Dreamland</em>

Letter To Young Political Workers

Marxism in Africa

A History of Empire Without Empire

On Crypto

This is not an aberration; violence is central to the history, and present, of the United States

Assata Shakur interviewed by Pastors For Peace

“Brainwashing”

The Pitfalls of Liberalism

The Sentimental Criticism of Capitalism

On Dialectics, or How to Defeat Enemies

The State and Socialism

Domenico Losurdo interviewed by Matteo Gargani

Anticommunism & Wonderland

Stalinists and Feminazis

The Revolution against <em>Das Kapital</em>

We Must Unite All The Forces That Can Be United

Zionist Colonialism in Palestine

Dialectical and Historical Materialism

The Woman Question

China Has Billionaires

The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz

The Question of Minority Nationalities in the Southwest

Deng Xiaoping interviewed by Oriana Fallaci

What Can We Learn from the Texas Snowstorm Disaster?

Another View of Tiananmen

A Few Notes on the Culture

Two Cthulhus

Marx’s Philosophical Context

The Virtual Factory

Third Manuscript

Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Literature and Art

The Swerve

On Authority

Everyday Subkulak

Flight from History? The Communist Movement between Self-Criticism and Self-Contempt

On Bracketing: Pugilistic Lessons for the Left

J. V. Stalin interviewed by Emil Ludwig

J. V. Stalin interviewed by H. G. Wells

Geopolitics and human rights: from liberal historical revisionism to imperial universalism

In Defense of Self-Defense

The Path Which Led Me To Leninism

Who’s Afraid of the End of History?

Friendly Feudalism: The Tibet Myth

Reform is the only way for China to develop its productive forces

The Tyranny of Stucturelessness

On Chomsky

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised… Nor Will It Be Brought To You By Russell Brand, Oliver Stone Or Noam Chomsky

What is “neoliberalism”?

Marketing Socialism

White Supremacy and Magic Paper

On Orwell

Two Peruvian Constitutions

Cults & Miracles

The American’s Job

Western Marxism, the Fetish for Defeat, and Christian Culture

Men value my opinion

On Identitarianism: A Defense of a Strawman

“Tankies”

Why Marxism?

Fidel Castro in Guadalajara