For the most part, I’ve always been excited by the first day of school: new teachers, new friends (sometimes), and best of all, new stuff. The first day of school, much to my parents’ dread, meant new ...

Last year Chicagoist editor Chuck Sudo posted the above picture of a car elevator in the Loop—source unknown, apparently from 1936—and asked "Where Was This Car Elevator Located?" It made the rounds: ...

BEIJING, Dec. 31 (Xinhua) -- An article by Xi Jinping on dialectical materialism will be published on Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee. The ...

Libertarian Marxism is a rather recent development, as far as political theories and movements go. I suppose that a truly dedicated historian could dig up the bones of various defunct political groups ...

This paper examines the resurgence of interest in the interpretation of quantum theory which occurred in the late 1940s and 1950s, and seeks to uncover its political origins in a perceived clash ...

In this rigorous examination of Hegel’s philosophical legacy, famed Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Zizek (Living in the End Times) demonstrates how deeply Hegel’s ideas have pervaded ...

This is a translation and revision of a major philosophical study which has already appeared in Italian (1948) and German (1952) editions. After an extended historical introduction to Soviet Marxism, ...

Govindan, also a party central committee member, said since the mind-set of a majority of people was still feudalistic it was impractical to implement dialectical materialism in a society that was not ...

WHEN the Chinese Communist Party proposes, the masses still dispose. Since a mid-June commentary appeared in the People's Daily, the party's mouthpiece, arguing that to buy shares is glorious and that ...