Feudalism

Can the past hold the present to ransom? Can we be culpable for our predecessors’ actions? Knotty questions of this kind have long been debated in British universities. But now these abstractions are finding new and controversial expression. Yesterday, the U…

Working hard and doing what you’re told is no longer yielding the promised American Dream of security, agency and liberty. Volume One of Fernand Braudel’s oft-recommended (by me) trilogy Civilization & Capitalism, 15th to 18th Century is titled The Struc…

When the historian Eric Hobsbawm died in 2012, at the age of 95, his family arranged for him to be buried in Londons Highgate Cemetery near the grave of Karl Marx. It was an appropriate resting place for one of the 20th centurys leading Marxist historians, wh…

Since NWN partner Sinespace recently extended the deadline for its first-person shooter map contest judged by Erik Wolpaw to May 31st, the development team is awarding a $500 milestone prize to the contestant with the most developed game experience so far. …

by Charles Hugh-Smith Working hard and doing what youre told is no longer yielding the promised American Dream of security, agency and liberty. Volume One of Fernand Braudels oft-recommended (by me) trilogy Civilization & Capitalism, 15th to 18th Centur…

It is a weapon pointed at the living world. We urgently need to develop a new system. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 25th April 2019 For most of my adult life, Ive railed against corporate capitalism, consumer capitalism and crony capitali…

God bless America. I mean that ironically. Not because the US has nothing to praise; on the contrary. Ironically because we generalists or we, the forgetful of historical struggles, dont credit America enough for its contributions to socialism the very word …

Editor's Note: May 4, 2019, marks the 100th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement, a patriotic campaign launched by Chinese youth in 1919 against imperialism and feudalism. Two experts share their views on the impact of the movement on Chinese youths with Ch…

Sociologist and veteran politician Syed Husin Ali at a forum today on Malaysia and the Rome Statute. KUALA LUMPUR: Sociologist and veteran politician Syed Husin Ali believes that a royal backlash against the Rome Statute stemmed from fears for their own posi…

I would like you to entertain, for a moment, an idea that might sound a little eccentric, or maybe as plain and obvious as a thing can be. It is this: The division of labor is the meaning of life. I do not mean this metaphorically or analogically, but liter…