The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“…The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. …”
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The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…W. E.B. Dubois was a Marxist until the moment of his transition. It was in this sense that as Marxist in ideological outlook and socialist in political praxis, they were anti-capitalist in orientation. …”
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Revolution and Literature: Russian Writers Literary Sociology of Revolution: The Specious Paradoxical Relationship between Literature and Revolution by Mehdi Najafzadeh

“…In the second book, he emphasized German literature especially Marxist works from 1917 to 1960, and in the third book, the focus was on the Marxist works in Latin America. …”
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A Critique on the Book Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Rohollah Eslami, Elaheh Valizadeh

“…Not only have the ideas of Marxism analyzed societies, but also shaped social action. Marxists have read each Marx's works in a number of ways, and claim to have provided the closest interpretation to Marx. …”
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Historical and Legal Features for the Development of Legal (Law) Education in 30-40s of the XX Century by N. A. Bondar

“…The Soviet model of higher education of the outlined period proved itself to be a system which was accompanied by repression and arbitrariness of the authorities, imposition of Marxist ideology and lawlessness in all spheres of public life, which affected the educational activity of law faculties. …”
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Corrigendum: Authenticity doubt on the Tomioka (Yishen Lun) manuscript: A discourse analysis by David T.W Tam

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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“…Marx's theory of capitalism, and the Marxist theory of imperialism. Because of the dominant significance of Marxist sources, CWS can be considered a neo-Marxist theory. …”
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Éléments de réflexions sur le rapport entre la poésie occitane contemporaine et le sacré. L’exemple de Joan Larzac by Pierre Molin

“…Joan Larzac (1938-), in his poetry written during the 1960s and 1970s, expresses sometimes contradictory views. Between Marxist revolt and Christian mysticism, the poet’s work is nevertheless consistent in the effect it seeks: to express an absence, whether linguistic (Occitan) or sacred (God).…”
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poum et cinéma: entre art et Révolution (1936-1937) by Cindy Coignard

“…In a context of civil war, we have to wonder about the choices which are made in the diffusion of films: which criteria come into play and how they made the selection in relation to the dissident Marxist ideology.…”
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Accumulation, capitalisme et politique : vers une approche intégrée by Matthieu Ansaloni, Matthieu Montalban, Antoine Roger, Andy Smith

“…After recalling how initial Marxist and institutionalist problematics implied the need to grasp the relationship between these two terms, we set out to show how coupling regulation theory with field theory enables empirical analysis to reveal the political structuring of accumulation.…”
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Striving for an Alternative World Order: The Journey of Cuban Anti-Imperialism from History to Modernity by A. Z. Arabadzhyan

“…After the Cuban Revolution's victory in 1959, a new structural component emerged under Marxist-Leninist influence: the principle of proletarian internationalism. …”
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Chevolución, Chesucristo: historia de un ícono en dos clichés by Verushka Alvizuri

“…The stereotypical image of Che Guevara has two faces: the heroic Marxist warrior and the Christian martyr. The portrait Heroic warrior by Alberto Korda and the pictures of the corpse, by Freddy Alborta were realized in exceptional circumstances which are described by this article using an approach of cultural photographic history. …”
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Réflexions sur le féminisme ou pour un féminisme critique by Suzanne Blaise

“…She reconsiders the fundamental principles of Marxist theory. She develops a sharp perspective, both partisan and critical, when scrutinizing the main ideological, economical and historical spots of bourgeois resistance to change, namely, family and education. …”
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Le regard impossible by Mathias Kusnierz

“…This paper discusses the issues of photorealistic illusion and ideological production in American blockbusters through an analysis of their digital effects and computer generated images (CGI). I adopt a Marxist perspective to question their discourse. Attention is first paid to the historical, theoretical and technical conditions of the photorealism of digital effects and CGI. …”
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Vladimir Colin și basmul militant (II) by Cătălin Sturza

“…Unfortunately, these stories remain schematic and demonstrative in nature, and they are connected to a mythological thread that they exploit only superficially, and that they often falsify and subordinate to the Marxist ideology. “The Second Colin”, who will be distinguished in the 1970s with some prestigious international literary awards, never cuts himself loose from Vladimir Colin – the Communist ideologist of the 1950s. …”
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Galicia ¿escuela de subalternidad? by Marta Álvarez, Laureano Montero

“…Her films question power relations, with a viewpoint shaped by her marxist and feminist theoretical bases. The aim of this work is to show how decisive has been the context in which the director was formed: that of Galicia during the late Franco regime, the transition and the entry into democracy. …”
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A review of The Political Economy of Agribusiness: A Critical Development Perspective by Nil Alt

“… Maria Luisa Mendonça's recent book, The Political Economy of Agribusiness: A Critical Development Perspective, challenges the idea that agribusiness is an inevitable evolutionary process. Using a Marxist perspective, the book examines the historical development and consequences of industrial agriculture, particularly in Brazil. …”
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A Conspiracy of Silence: The Suppressed Protest of The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath by Adam Nemmers

“…Positioned at the vanguard of the American labor movement, radical writers sought to disseminate Marxist ideology through proletarian literature, especially during the first half of the twentieth century. …”
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The Role of Critical Pedagogy in the Globalization Era and the Aftermath of September 11, 2001. Interview with Peter McLaren by Lucía Coral Aguirre Muñoz

“…In the face of postmodern theories claiming the end of the working class, Peter McLaren discusses globalization as a form of imperialism; he does so from a critical perspective founded on the Marxist theory and on the concept of social class. …”
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Antonio Gramsci e le avanguardie di inizio Novecento. Intersezioni con il pragmatismo italiano e europeo by Chiara Meta

“…This essay reconstructs a number of the historical-philosophical sources, extraneous to the tradition of Marxist thought, that came together to form the biography of the young Gramsci. …”
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