Slavoj Žižek and the Politics of Abstract Negativity
Yanis Iqbal, May 8, 2024
Yanis Iqbal breaks down Slavoj Žižek's philosophical narrative of abstract negativity, revealing it to be politically disabling and epistemologically reductive. Read Article.
The Role of Marxist Philosophy
Yanis Iqbal, September 13, 2022
Drawing from the work of Marxist philosophers such as Althusser and Lukács, Yanis Iqbal outlines the basic premises of dialectical materialism. Read Article.
Rethinking Marxist Politics
Yanis Iqbal, June 29, 2022
Drawing from Gramscian and Althusserian approaches to pedagogy, Yanis Iqbal argues that a successful future for socialist politics must be based on a merger of Marxist theory and the recuperated progressive aspects of proletarian common sense. Read Article.
The Philosophical Structure of Education
Yanis Iqbal, September 16, 2021
Yanis Iqbal summarizes a dialectical materialist approach to knowledge and education, drawing from the work of E.V. Ilyenkov. Read Article.
The FARC: Between Past and Future
Yanis Iqbal, October 8, 2020
Today we have an interview with Yanis Iqbal, a student and freelance writer from Aligarh, India, who has written many articles on the topic of the subaltern under neoliberalism and the topic of imperialism in Latin America and Colombia. Read Article.