Dialectical Library

Read Carefully, Criticize Deeply 📕

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Hello, world! DiaLibra is a small group of comrades who are publishing book reviews of fiction and nonfiction from a Marxist perspective. https://t.co/JWcUknGK5v 📕

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Can existentialism and Marxism ever be reconciled? George Novack’s 1966 anthology argues not, framing existentialism as a reactionary “third way” that seeks to supplant dialectical materialism with its own metaphysics. First-time contributor @dyalectix reviews. Link below ⤵️

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Why did The Gadfly become a revolutionary classic in China, the USSR, and Iran, but fade into obscurity in the Anglosphere?

@alicirce reviews Ethel Voynich's novel about the emotional, tactical, and personal struggles of an Italian revolutionary group. https://t.co/yHHODzRyib

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In 1999, Domenico Losurdo penned an Introduction to the Communist Manifesto that also happens to summarize a lot of his work over the previous decade. Now, for the first time in English! https://t.co/tIfSaT3y4K

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In "The Message", Ta-Nehisi Coates weaves together reflections that he hopes will convince his readers of the need to support Palestinian liberation—a position he regrets coming late to. @alicirce reviews what TNC has to say about education and rhetoric. https://t.co/qkVqI5lKZx

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Pedagogy of the Oppressed is world-famous, and the third-most cited work of social science. But the intellectual history that led to its writing is nearly as interesting as the work itself. @ope_sec digs deeper in this critical review.
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For our inaugural post, @alicirce reviews Jack London's lesser-known socialist novel, The Iron Heel.

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