It is surely something of a paradox to begin a series of seminars on “Lives of South African Philosophers” by discussing a historical...

Third Worldism and Internationalism The theory and practice of socialist internationalism has gone through several transmutations since...

Wat Verby Is, Is Verby: Afrikaners and Reconciliation One of the main themes of Nelson Mandela’s presidency was that of reconciliation...

Those of us whose memories go back to the insurrectionary years of the mid-1980s—when millions of oppressed people were drawn into...

In commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Trotsky—that is, in coming together from our varying backgrounds of...

The question of Leninism and democracy has been placed on the agenda today [in 1990] by events in Eastern Europe. The idea that Leninism...

Is Hegel really necessary? This is a question of which Hegel himself was acutely aware. Other philosophers before him, from Greek...