Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice
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<p><em>Cultural Logic</em>, which has been on-line since 1997, is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes essays, interviews, poetry, and reviews (books, films, other media) by writers working within the Marxist tradition.</p>The Institute for Critical Education Studiesen-USCultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice1097-3087The Use and Abuse of Class Reductionism for the Left
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Marc Léger
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2023-03-052023-03-0525115Beneath Utopian Skylines
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Joe Ramsey
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2023-03-052023-03-05251637Another World Is Possible
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Ronald Paul
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2023-03-052023-03-05253850Marxists Behaving Badly
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<p>In theory, Marxists are materialists. Materialists decide the truth or falsehood of hypothesis on the basis of evidence. But with regard to Joseph Stalin and Soviet history during the time of his leadership, many Marxists are in fact idealists, ignoring evidence in favor of their preconceived ideas. This essay discusses: the need for objectivity in historical research; the dialectical relationship of practice and theory; and six words or phrases that are hallmarks of idealism and anticommunism on the pseudo-Marxist “Left”: Totalitarianism; Stalinism; Stalin the “Dictator;” “The Great Terror;” the GULAG; Democracy. The anti-Marxist nature of the Trotskyist website Marxists.org. is exposed and critiqued. The essay concludes that a true Marxist Left must reject the errors examined here.</p>Grover Furr
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2023-03-052023-03-05255171Normalizing Surveillance in Dave Eggers’ The Circle
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Shohel Rana
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2023-03-052023-03-05257288Lahiri’s Post-Racial Strangers
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<div class="page" title="Page 1"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p>With respect to the Marxian concept of “universal alienation,” we will attempt to account for the universalizing material conditions of late capitalism, considering the central characters as belonging to a global middle class of corporate workers and consumerists. Nikolai Gogol’s short story, The Overcoat, a recurrent motif in the novel, will be viewed as the novel’s precursor, providing an “allegorical key” to understanding the “economic” nature of this condition. It will be argued that the text’s affective impact could be analyzed in terms alienation from labor, from other people and a compensatory fetishistic consumerism. By reading The Namesake as a novel of capitalist alienation, we aspire to contribute to shifting the critical focal point from race to capital.</p> </div> </div> </div>Adel SaeidZohreh Ramin
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