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Anthropocentrism versus ecocentrism: notes on a false dichotomy

Posted on 23rd July 2021 by Richard Donnelly

In the 1840s, in the manuscripts later published as The German Ideology, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels set out the first comprehensive statement of the approach to understanding history and society that underlay their writing and political activity for the… Continue Reading →

Gramsci, left populism and class struggle

Posted on 30th March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Few figures from the history of Marxism appear so frequently in the press and in public debate as Antonio Gramsci.1 For example, in December 2019 the New York Times used Gramsci’s oft-quoted phrase “the old is dying and the new… Continue Reading →