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ListJun 21, 2026

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@mrshermanIn the tracks of historical materialism

ReviewMay 20, 2026

This is a short but dense book that presents three successive lectures that the New Left Review editor Perry Anderson gave on what he calls French "critical theory" but which nowadays we usually call (post)structuralism, which touches on all the major players…

@jdkafkaIn the tracks of historical materialism

ListAug 8, 2024