As I write, on 14 October, the movement is looking towards Saturday 17 October, the first day of the autumn vacations. The date did not begin with the lycéens. It first appeared on social networks weeks ago, amid concerns over fuel prices and the cost of living, and was widely seen as a revival of the Gilets jaunes. We do not yet know whether this will be the moment a counter-conduct becomes something the State can more comfortably call a revolt, or whether it will hold to its own grammar. [Read more here…]
E. P. Thompson
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By Bernard E. Harcourt Marx’s articles titled “Debates on the Law on Thefts of Wood,” published in the Rheinische Zeitung in October and November 1842, were fetish texts among critical legal scholars, critical sociologists, Marxist historians, and radical lawyers during the late 1960s and 70s.[1] The articles do not typically appear in the canon of Marx’s political writings. They are absent, for instance, from the classic, exhaustive, American compendium, The Marx-Engels Reader, edited by Robert C. Tucker—that thick red volume that every undergraduate in social studies carries with them. They are considered by some, following Louis Althusser, as still tainted […]