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Howard Zinn RIP

The radical historian, author of A People’s History of the United States, and documenter of some of the most important radical struggles in American history died yesterday aged 87. Zinn was active in the civil rights movement, the anti-Vietnam war movement and organising amongst academic staff. He was responsible for upholding the memory of a [...]

Posted Under: US Politics
This post was written by Dan on January 28, 2010 Comments (0)

G.A. Cohen RIP

Reports are emerging that the philosopher G.A. Cohen died in the early hours of this morning aged 68. Cohen was most famous as arguably the most significant of the ‘Analytical Marxists’, who attempted to systematise Marx’s ideas into the schemas of analytic philosophy. Implicit, and often explicit, in this task was the purging of the Hegelian core [...]

Posted Under: Socialism
This post was written by Dan on August 6, 2009 Comments (19)