Статья о событиях 1968 года в Турции

Demet Lüküslü - Turkey's 68

Turkey's 1968 generation presents an interesting case, not only because the country was undergoing a major transformation, but also because it was a devout NATO ally neighboring the Soviet Union during the Cold War era.
The 1968 generation in Turkey first emerged as a student movement focused on reform within the university system, but towards the end of the sixties it evolved into a revolutionary movement, eventually fighting for the use of revolutionary violence after the military intervention of 1971.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3811-turkey-s-68

Alex Gourevitch, Lucas Stanczyk - The Basic Income Illusion

It is sometimes said that a generous basic income could empower workers to better resist their capitalist bosses. This familiar claim regarding the emancipatory potential of basic income has things almost exactly backwards. A universal basic income high enough to be genuinely liberating would require enormous expropriation of businesses and wealthy people. Consequently, there is no chance of its passage until there is an organized working class already powerful enough to extract it. This fact should inform the Left’s political strategy.

https://catalyst-journal.com/vol1/no4/the-basic-income-illusion

Jean Paul Sartre interviews Daniel Cohn-Bendit

A conversation between Jean Paul Sartre and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, held in the midst of the 1968 May events.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3819-jean-paul-sartre-interviews-daniel-cohn-bendit

Книга Реймонда Уильямса - The country and the city

As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.

Naoko Koda - The Long Japanese Sixties

A communist league of students founded in 1948 in Japan, the Zengakuren amassed power over two decades, creating tremendous tensions in the US-Japan Cold War alliance by challenging standard concepts of democracy, peace and the history of imperialism.
Conventional narratives of the Japanese student movement start with the mass demonstrations against the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty of 1960 and end with the factionalism of the student movement and the violent crimes of small extremist groups such as the Red Army Faction. Yet, this commonly used chronological frame inadvertently fails to take into account the multilayered complexities of the history of the Japanese student movement.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3828-the-long-japanese-sixties

Николай Проценко - Макросоциология против американского империализма

Фундаментальная книга об источниках власти и всемирной истории
На русском языке вышел последний том четырехтомника «Источники социальной власти» англо-американского социолога Майкла Манна, он охватывает 1945–2011 годы. Эта очень амбициозная (в четырехтомнике Манн описывает всю мировую историю с древних времен и до наших дней) и объемная книга, прославившая автора, пришла в Россию с большим запозданием, но не утратила актуальности.

https://gorky.media/reviews/makrosotsiologiya-protiv-amerikanskogo-imperializma/

John Nichols - Socialism Is on a Winning Streak

Four candidates backed by Democratic Socialists of America won Pennsylvania primaries Tuesday, and come November they could all be legislators.
The long history of American socialism has been built in left-wing strongholds. A century ago, Oklahoma and Wisconsin were Socialist Party bastions, while North Dakota and Montana were hotbeds of radical politics.

https://www.thenation.com/article/socialism-is-on-a-winning-streak/

Alexandre Alfonso, Line Rennwald - The Far Right’s Leftist Mask

The European far right has cynically appropriated left-wing and pro-worker talking points for its own purposes.
In the early 1980s, Jean-Marie Le Pen took pride in being called the “French Ronald Reagan.” Likening fiscal authorities to the Spanish Inquisition, the then-leader of the far-right National Front called for a radical scaling back of the French state to its “nightwatchman” functions (army, police, justice, diplomacy). Tax and expenditure was to be cut. Government, he said, should be “taken off our backs and out of our pockets.”

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/far-right-ukip-fn-welfare-immigration-working-class-voters/

James M. Robertson - «Down with the Pipe and the Poodle!»: Yugoslavia, 1968

The events of June 1968 in Yugoslavia both revealed the contradictions of self-management socialism and affirmed the vitality of official socialist discourse as a language of critique.
The protests of 1968 were a rebellion against a socialist state from within that state’s own ideological coordinates and discursive meanings. When students in June 1968 unfurled banners reading 'Workers, we are with you!,' this was not a form of everyday political ritual ... it was both a description of and an effort to transform reality in line with socialist ideology, to inspire a struggle of workers and students against the state bureaucracy and 'red bourgeoisie.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3830-down-with-the-pipe-and-the-poodle-yugoslavia-1968

Thomas Frank - Striking teachers show that cutting education to fix it is a neoliberal myth

For decades we have been told that the way to fix education is to fire people but red-shirted marchers across the country have shown the power of solidarity
What I like best about the wave of teachers’ strikes that have swept America these last few months is how they punch so brutally and so directly in the face of the number one neoliberal educational fantasy of the last decade: that all we need to do to fix public education is fire people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/21/teacher-strikes-schools-neoliberal-fantasy-debunking

Норберто Боббио - Правые и левые

«Правые» и «левые» - два противопоставленных друг другу термина, которые уже более двух веков привычно применяются для обозначения различий между идеологиями и движениями, на которые подразделяется в высшей степени конфликтный универсум политических мышления и действий. Поскольку это два антитетических термина, то по отношению к универсуму, который они описывают, они являются взаимоисключающими и в совокупности своей исчерпывающими: взаимоисключающими в том смысле, что ни одно учение и ни одно движение не может быть одновременно правым и левым; исчерпывающими в том смысле, что, по крайней мере в принятом значении этой пары, как мы сможем убедиться далее, учение или движение может быть только либо правым, либо левым.

http://magazines.russ.ru/nz/2003/5/bobbio.html

Ghassane Koumiya - Post-68 Student Uprisings and the Rise of the Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Movement

Partly inspired by 1968 student uprisings around the world, the New Left in Morocco emerged as a revolutionary alternative to the traditional Communist parties and the nationalist movement.
"The masks have fallen; let's open up the revolutionary path,” read the statement issued by revolutionary students and intellectuals in Morocco on 30 August 1970. The group had been inspired by the May 1968 student uprisings in France and the victories of revolutionary movements in Vietnam and China, along with the spread of Marxism in the Arab left following the defeat of nationalist projects in 1967.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3838-post-68-student-uprisings-and-the-rise-of-the-moroccan-marxist-leninist-movement

Kjell Östberg - Sweden and the Long 1968

Sweden's 1968 can be most clearly registered in the context of a wave of radicalization that stretched from the 1950s to the 1980s.
1968 was a year of intensified radicalization in Sweden, mainly among young people, students, and intellectuals. Students were occupying university buildings, while the Vietnam solidarity movement transformed into a mass movement and new social activities flourished.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3843-sweden-and-the-long-1968

Фредрик Джеймисон - Новое прочтение «Капитала»

Как явствует из самого названия, данный текст имеет целью познакомить вас с основными мыслями моей новой, готовящейся к выходу в свет книги «Репрезентация Капитала», посвящённой первому тому «Капитала» Маркса, который я трактую несколько иначе, чем это принято в многочисленных стандартных интерпретациях. Итак, сначала я скажу несколько слов о разнице в подходах, а потом познакомлю вас с некоторыми практическими выводами о состоянии марксизма сегодня, его политических задачах и интеллектуальной миссии.

http://www.russ.ru/Mirovaya-povestka/Novoe-prochtenie-Kapitala

Aldo Marchesi - The May ’68 That Was Not May ’68: Latin America in the Global Sixties

In the twenty-first century, the concept of the global sixties has prompted multiple approaches that expand the timeframes and geographies of the protests that took place around the world during that decade. Several have pointed out that the events of 1968 in some countries were actually part of a cycle that spanned a much longer timeframe. Others have emphasized that the geographies of these mobilizations cannot be reduced to central countries. When it comes to historical evocation and public discussion, however, in Europe and in the Americas May 1968 is still seen as the starting point.

https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3846-the-may-68-that-was-not-may-68-latin-america-in-the-global-sixties

Georg Lukács - Emmanuil Levin

In their critiques, Western humanist writers frequently fault Soviet literature for expressing the face of the new socialist person with insufficient clarity. To a certain degree this criticism is correct and should be taken into consideration. In many works [of Soviet literature] (even some that stand on a quite high level), amidst a realistic picture of the socialist land’s life environment and human interrelations, certain people are depicted as socialist heroes though in their psyche they belong almost wholly to the old, capitalist world.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/91/198554/emmanuil-levin/

Питер Осборн - Постконцептуальное состояние, или Культурная логика высокого капитализма сегодня

Насколько же поздно, кажется нам сейчас, было называть капитализм «поздним» в 1991 году, в момент его столь мощного обновления. Используя понятие «поздний капитализм», Джеймисон частично отсылал к Адорно, который употребил его в своей речи 1968 года, обращенной к Немецкому социологическому конгрессу и озаглавленной «Поздний капитализм или индустриальное общество?».

http://moscowartmagazine.com/issue/2/article/16

Эрнст Блох, Теодор Адорно - Чего-то не хватает.  О противоречиях утопического томления

У Томаса Мора Утопия была с самого начала определением места — островом в далеком южном море. Позже значение меняется и из пространственного становится временным. Утописты, прежде всего XVIII и XIX веков, Фурье и Сен-Симон, переносят страну желаний дальше в будущее, переводя тем самым топос из пространства во время. У Томаса Мора готовая страна желаний существовала на далеком острове, только меня там нет. Когда она оказалась перенесенной в будущее, то там нет не только меня, но и самой страны нет; этого острова вовсе не существует. Но эта страна не какой-то нонсенс или чистая фантазия — ее еще нет, в смысле возможности, что она может появиться, если мы что-то для этого сделаем.  

http://moscowartmagazine.com/issue/12/article/164

Статья о предстоящих президентских выборах в Колумбии

Tobias Frank - Between Hope and Fear

The stakes couldn’t be higher in today’s Colombian elections. Here’s a quick guide of what to expect.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/05/colombia-presidential-elections-peace-deal