Antonio Gramsci’s critical evaluation of Rosa Luxemburg, specifically her theory of the mass strike, found in his Prison Notebooks is an important element in his discussion of hegemony and revolutionary political strategy.

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The themes of imprisonment and exile figure prominently in the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) who spent several years in jail and dedicated his life as a journalist, educator, and poet to preserving Pakistan’s artistic and spiritual heritage. Faiz reinvigorated a fossilized Urdu literature whose stale diction conferred predetermined meanings on traditional images such as the nightingale, the rose, the love-stricken gazelle, and the moon.

Introduction

Mike Davis. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory. (London and New York: Verso, 2018). 294 pp. $26.95 / £17.99.

While Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the English Working Class is almost universally praised as an honest, insightful and indeed profound picture of working-class life in Manchester in the 1840s, much of the rest of his contribution to Marxism is typically dismissed as popularization that reduced Marx’s sublation of materialism and idealism to a warmed-over version of eighteenth-century materialism.