There are particularly deep connections to Marxism at Wuhan University. Its former president, Li Da, was a founding member of China’s ruling Communist Party and one of the first to translate works by ...

A new survey shows college students divided about socialism and free speech, with humanities and education majors favoring socialist policies.

What if the universe remembers? A bold new framework proposes that spacetime acts as a quantum memory. For over a hundred years, physics has rested on two foundational theories. Einstein’s general ...

Commentary: We don’t need a sanitized version of American history. We need an evenhandedness that celebrates our achievements and acknowledges our shortcomings.

Utilizing class analysis is the bread and butter of socialist politics. But understanding how classes are shaped and reproduced has changed over time. In a recent episode of the Jacobin Radio podcast ...

President Trump is right. The Smithsonian is “out of control.” And it should be a concern to all Americans, whether you agree with Trump on other issues or not. It is the heritage of us all that is ...

Statement of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International, March 20, 1966

 (1) The United Secretariat of the Fourth International vigorously condemns the barbaric repression of the leaders, ...

Christoph Schuringa insists that analytic philosophy serves as an ideological fig leaf for liberal capitalism. But his polemic distorts the discipline’s history and fails to draw persuasive links ...

Analytic philosophy has become the dominant school in anglophone philosophy departments since 1945. Christoph Schuringa persuasively argues that it has served to reinforce a liberal common sense that ...

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