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‘Primitive Communism’: Did it Ever Exist?

10/11/2021 By Conor Kostick 7 Comments

The concept of primitive communism does not fit mega-settlements like Çatalhöyük

A review of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow and an explanation of why the concept of primitive communism is mistaken. The way in which we imagine the first human societies is intimately connected to our current political beliefs. Conservatives believe in repression, the need for […]

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Art and Politics: One Big Union

24/09/2021 By John Flynn 1 Comment

One Big Union Ciarán O'Rourke

An interview between Johnny Flynn and Ciarán O Rourke, author of a new collection of essays on art and politics JOHNNY FLYNN: Will we start with that quote from your essay on Martín Chambi?  You say that what most attracted you to artists in particular, and their techniques, is that they “draw on their chosen […]

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The social impact of artificial intelligence

15/04/2021 By Conor Kostick 1 Comment

The social impact of artificial intelligence

Novelists have been kind to artificial intelligence in recent times. In Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 book, Klara and the Sun, Klara is an AI designed to be a child’s companion and she is by far the most compassionate and self-sacrificing character in the book. In the rather darker Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan (2019), the […]

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THE SYRIAN REVOLUTION 2011

13/04/2021 By Colm Breathnach 3 Comments

Assad was nearly overthrown by the Syrian Revolution of 2011

Socialists and the Syrian Revolution The Syrian revolution 2011 was a genuine people’s uprising: one that was crushed by the al-Assad regime; a corrupt neo-liberal clique backed by Russian imperialism; and Iranian clerico-military oligarchy. The intervention of the US and its Saudi and Gulf allies also undermined the revolution and bolstered reactionary fundamentalist forces. Socialists […]

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William Carlos Williams’s poetry was of and for the proletariat

15/02/2021 By Ciarán O'Rourke 3 Comments

William Carlos William's poems were for and about the working class

‘It’s as if no other poet except Williams had really seen America or heard its language’, wrote Robert Lowell in 1962, near the end of the elder bard’s life: ‘His flowers rustle by the superhighways and pick up all our voices.’ Some decades earlier, Mike Gold, the editor of New Masses magazine, predicted that ‘[w]hen […]

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