Alex Snowdon uses a Marxist approach to ideology and the analysis of Italian revolutionary Antonio Gramsci to explain how the ruling class losing its grip at Counterfire’s Revolution! weekender
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Book review
Des Freedman, Capitalism and the Media: Key Concepts for Understanding Communications and Technology (Cambridge: Polity Press 2026), 300pp.
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Analysis
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Gramsci’s Marxism, part 1: Revolution and the Prison Notebooks
Book review
Sven Beckert, Capitalism: A Global History (Allen Lane 2025), xiii, 1325pp.
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