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The problem at issue in Marx's reflections on variations between pre-bourgeois forms of communal ownership (Indian, Slavonic, Mediterranean, and Germanic) was the genesis of the defining social relations of modern bourgeois society out of a separation of the laborer from the means of labor- the opposition of capital to a…

Other lives: Manchester University lecturer who became an authority on Karl Marx

David Graeber, who died in 2020 at the age of 59, was an anthropologist and a political activist. The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World is a curated collection of his essays. Like a glitzy museum exhibition, it is part serious memorialisation, part entertainment, and part invitation to play.

His famous erudition was attached to his nightmare politics.

There are writers and critics, theorists and gurus. And then there is Fredric Jameson. Or there was. Because on September 22, at the age of 90, undimmed and over-productive as ever (three books in 2024 alone!), Jameson passed quietly away.

As Tokyo's millions put in another day's work on the coalface of capitalism, celebrity Marxist philosopher Kohei Saito and his friends are clearing rocks from a muddy mountain stream.

A brisk and engaging biography of Baruch Spinoza, the man who inspired many secular Jewish thinkers, is least convincing when it offers him as an example of ‘cancel culture’