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The Marxist Long Goodbye to the Revolution

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Vassilis Lambropoulos | Comments Off on The Marxist Long Goodbye to the Revolution

Bruce Robbins on Perry Anderson’s Gramscian hegemony between Thucydidean realism and Stoic melancholy.

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