Book Review: Prison Notebooks: Volume II, Antonio Gramsci

“The concepts of revolutionary and internationalist, in the modern sense, are correlated to the precise concept of state and class: a poor understanding of the state means a poor consciousness of class (understanding of the state exists not only when one defends it but also when one attacks [...]

Book Review: Words of a Rebel, Peter Kropotkin (1885, this edition published in 1997)

History is interwoven with the plight of our times - a hereditary restriction of the masses which allows the supremacist authority of the rulers. Our disassociation from past struggles has ensured that humanity, subjugated through capitalism, has betrayed the nature of revolution. Capitalism [...]

Book Review: Prison Notebooks Vol 1, Antonio Gramsci, Columbia University Press (2011)

“Culture is a fundamental concept of socialism because it integrates and concretizes the vague concept of freedom of thought.” Antonio Gramsci
Antonio Gramsci’s cultural awareness permeates every single reflection recorded in his notebooks. Arrested and imprisoned in 1926 on conspiracy charges of an alleged attempt [...]

Book Review: Marx and the Alternative to Capitalism, Kieran Allen (Pluto Press, 2011)

“It is true that labour produces wonderful things for the rich - but for the worker it produces privation … It produces beauty - but for the worker, deformity.” Karl Marx
Kieran Allen’s treatise dispels the conventional opinion that Marxism is obsolete - [...]

Book Review:Diary of an Escape - Antonio Negri (Polity Press, 2010)

“The recent days have shown the enormous gap that exists between our capacity to produce truth and the court’s inert expression of its unbelievable desire to repress it.”
Antonio Negri.
A discussion of truth in any situation may well be defined as a paradox. Truth - [...]

Transgression of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is considered a serious breach of freedom. Citing national interest and security, political leaders are inundating their citizens with a xenophobic and racist rant which is void of ideology, instead reflecting prejudice with the premise of leaders being in harmony with the people.
Conveniently forgetting that humanity is [...]