The world is sick, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure.
The pandemic presents an opportunity. It does so by making humanity conscious of itself in its threefold character: biological, political, and ethical.
We can be grateful that the mainstream debate about structural racism has not only directly targeted, with renewed energy and breadth, the state violence lurking under the name of “criminal justice.” It now increasingly attends to racism and racialization as products of predatory economic forces and global historical processes.
In the northern hemisphere’s autumn of 2019, I was asked to offer a seminar on a leading Western Marxist philosopher. I quickly chose Domenico Losurdo, since he is clearly one of the most insightful European Marxists who has the potential to contribute constructively to debates in China. Two of Losurdo’s books have been translated into Chinese, Liberalism: A Counter-History and Hegel and the Freedom of the Moderns, and there is growing interest in his work.
The neo-conservative movement in the United States has strong intellectual origins. Many of its founding members were radicals--heavily influenced by Leon Trotsky--who eventually became disillusioned with the New Left and the Counterculture movement (Stintson, 2010). Thus, a growing number of college professors and other scholars eventually gathered into a group that began in the 1970s to lobby Republican governments.
By placing cultural health above narrow sectional prejudices, writers of all races can help to break up the stony soil of aggrandizement out of which the stunted plants of Negro nationalism grow… On the