Students of parliamentary history are familiar with the idea of ‘Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition’. Marxism, as a social-historical phenomenon, has been Her Modern Majesty’s Opposition to modernity.

In 2020 Bulgaria joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, designed to maintain a stable exchange system between the euro ...

In a poem called ‘Berlin’, from Being Reflected Upon (2024) she talks about that afternoon: ‘I like to sit on a park bench ...

A casual reader who picked up Piero Sraffa’s Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities might be fascinated by the crystalline style in which it is written, but he would be puzzled to know why ...

Stage 3 By 1918, nationalism was triumphant. The three religious empires which had carved up Eastern Europe in 1815 were all sprawling in the dust. One of them, the Tsarist, admittedly recovered under ...

The Impossibility of Innocent Biography The biography, which was so little assessed as a text in the ‘quality’ press, has many solid virtues. Inglis had access to a wide range of what he calls ...

Hegel and Marx As we have implied in our introductory remarks, the concept of reification makes sense only within a dialectical perspective. Hegel made it clear that the dialectic is precisely the ...

We have seen, in our own time, the climax and the decline of liberal tragedy. To understand its structure of feeling is now a central problem. For we are all to some extent still governed by it, even ...