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Pre-Marxism in the Last Instance: A Review of Chantal Mouffe’s “For a Left Populism”

by Brant Roberts
“The current political order is riddled with obstacles along legal and economic lines, not to mention the concrete structure of the state, making social democratic reforms appear more utopian than communism.”

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Rupture in the Crime Heist Genre: Review of “La Casa de Papel”

A demonstrator wearing the red jumpsuit and Dali mask of the Spanish Netflix hit series La Casa de Papel (Money Heist) holds a blue smoke canister during a demonstration in Marseille, southern France, on January 16, 2020, as part of a nationwide multi-sector strike against the French government's pensions overhaul. - Unions have been waging a transport strike against the pension overhaul since December 5, the longest transport strike in France in decades. (Photo by Christophe SIMON / AFP) (Photo by CHRISTOPHE SIMON/AFP via Getty Images)

by Brant Roberts
“The use of cultural symbols in protests is far from new but in an era where one cannot leave any ground open for the far-right to capitalize on anything in the world, the need to utilize them when appropriate is more than it seems.”