The White Tiger Is a Window Into India’s Class Society
Movies about class and inequality are back in the mainstream. Ramin Bahrani’s The White Tiger is a powerful interrogation of the injustices of class and caste society.
17 Articles by: Harrison Fluss
Harrison Fluss is a corresponding editor with Historical Materialism and a lecturer in philosophy at St. John's University and Manhattan College
The Nightmare Before Socialism
The Nightmare Before Christmas is more than a holiday favorite. It is an allegory of capitalist modernity.
The Fool and the Madman
Last night, Jordan Peterson spouted nonsense about Marxism. And Slavoj Žižek reminded us of how deep into liberal pessimism he’s fallen.
The Prophet Perverted
Netflix’s Trotsky miniseries demonizes its namesake with antisemitic themes and rank nationalism.
Steven Pinker: False Friend of the Enlightenment
Steven Pinker’s technocratic liberalism has nothing to do with the radical spirit of the Enlightenment.
Jordan Peterson’s Bullshit
Jordan Peterson’s thought is filled with pseudo-science, bad pop psychology, and deep irrationalism. In other words, he’s full of shit.
Dialectical Enlightenment
The socialist project isn’t to rebel against the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity, but to show how capitalism is incapable of fulfilling them.
Aliens, Antisemitism, and Academia
Alt-right conspiracy theorists have embraced postmodern philosophy. The Left should return to the Enlightenment to oppose their irrational and hateful politics.
The Legacy of Eleanor Marx
On her birthday, we honor the life of Eleanor Marx.
Hillary Clinton Is Running for President
In case you haven’t noticed …
A Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young Man
Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal is a guidebook for ruining lives.
Hegel on Bastille Day
Hegel was no reactionary, and he had a special sympathy for the French Revolution.
Subversive Beginnings
Jenny and Karl Marx remembered the lessons of their fathers, but also broke from the limits of their liberal politics.
The Life of Jenny Marx
This Valentine’s Day, the life of Jenny Marx reminds us of the love it takes to be a revolutionary socialist.
Revisiting the Cult of the Supreme Being
Spinoza, Rousseau, and Robespierre may provide a model for the relationship between church and state in an emancipated society.
Donald Trump: American Psycho
One thing is clear after last night’s debate: Donald Trump is the rotten fruit of the American ruling class.
Red Abolitionism
The defenders of slavery rightly identified the ideological links between abolitionism and socialism.