JANE ADDAMS, in Twenty Years at Hull House, implies that the two doctrines of economic determinism and class-consciousness have deterred her from accepting socialism. Now, the form in which these ...

For nearly half a century, History and Class Consciousness by Georg Lukacs has been considered a sort of underground Marxist Classic. When an ENglish translation finally appeared last year, it was ...

Within the United States, when class is discussed, it is typically presented in a meaningless way. Class in America is frequently discussed in terms of “lower,” “middle,” and “upper” classes. These ...

I've been trying to fight against the impulses of accelerationism for decades, and I tend to think of myself as an institutionalist and an incrementalist. But you can't deny the obvious truth that the ...

Once the final economic crisis of capitalism has occurred, the fate of the revolution depends on the ideological maturity of the proletariat, on its class consciousness. This determines the unique ...

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