Socialist Aotearoa: The return of the Arab revolution
In the winter of 1939-40 the German Marxist critic Walter Benjamin wrote a remarkable text known as “Theses on the Philosophy of Historyâ€. In it he attacked the widespread belief on the left that socialism would come about inevitably, as the fruit of ... they fit the revolutions that have swept through the Arab world since mid-December like a glove. Exploding apparently out of nowhere, quite unanticipated, an explosion of resentments deeply compacted over decades, ...
