Contemporary science of the history of Lithuanians: the conception of nation and the methodology of history by Grigorijus Potašenko

“…The critical Marxist, Leonas Mulevičius, describes the conception of nation more according to economical criteria. …”
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Building with Jelly, or, Concrete as the Concretion of the Abstract by Alan Díaz Alva

“… In his recent book titled *Béton: arme de construction massive du capitalisme*, Marxist thinker Anselm Jappe presents a critique of the emergence and ongoing centrality of reinforced concrete as a hegemonic building material. …”
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The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“…The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. …”
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Historical and Legal Features for the Development of Legal (Law) Education in 30-40s of the XX Century by N. A. Bondar

“…The Soviet model of higher education of the outlined period proved itself to be a system which was accompanied by repression and arbitrariness of the authorities, imposition of Marxist ideology and lawlessness in all spheres of public life, which affected the educational activity of law faculties. …”
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Corrigendum: Authenticity doubt on the Tomioka (Yishen Lun) manuscript: A discourse analysis by David T.W Tam

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Immanuel Wallerstein's Theory of the Capitalist World-System by Darius Žiemelis

“…Marx's theory of capitalism, and the Marxist theory of imperialism. Because of the dominant significance of Marxist sources, CWS can be considered a neo-Marxist theory. …”
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poum et cinéma: entre art et Révolution (1936-1937) by Cindy Coignard

“…In a context of civil war, we have to wonder about the choices which are made in the diffusion of films: which criteria come into play and how they made the selection in relation to the dissident Marxist ideology.…”
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Accumulation, capitalisme et politique : vers une approche intégrée by Matthieu Ansaloni, Matthieu Montalban, Antoine Roger, Andy Smith

“…After recalling how initial Marxist and institutionalist problematics implied the need to grasp the relationship between these two terms, we set out to show how coupling regulation theory with field theory enables empirical analysis to reveal the political structuring of accumulation.…”
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Striving for an Alternative World Order: The Journey of Cuban Anti-Imperialism from History to Modernity by A. Z. Arabadzhyan

“…After the Cuban Revolution's victory in 1959, a new structural component emerged under Marxist-Leninist influence: the principle of proletarian internationalism. …”
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Le regard impossible by Mathias Kusnierz

“…This paper discusses the issues of photorealistic illusion and ideological production in American blockbusters through an analysis of their digital effects and computer generated images (CGI). I adopt a Marxist perspective to question their discourse. Attention is first paid to the historical, theoretical and technical conditions of the photorealism of digital effects and CGI. …”
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Galicia ¿escuela de subalternidad? by Marta Álvarez, Laureano Montero

“…Her films question power relations, with a viewpoint shaped by her marxist and feminist theoretical bases. The aim of this work is to show how decisive has been the context in which the director was formed: that of Galicia during the late Franco regime, the transition and the entry into democracy. …”
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A review of The Political Economy of Agribusiness: A Critical Development Perspective by Nil Alt

“… Maria Luisa Mendonça's recent book, The Political Economy of Agribusiness: A Critical Development Perspective, challenges the idea that agribusiness is an inevitable evolutionary process. Using a Marxist perspective, the book examines the historical development and consequences of industrial agriculture, particularly in Brazil. …”
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A Conspiracy of Silence: The Suppressed Protest of The Jungle and The Grapes of Wrath by Adam Nemmers

“…Positioned at the vanguard of the American labor movement, radical writers sought to disseminate Marxist ideology through proletarian literature, especially during the first half of the twentieth century. …”
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Do romance ao romance histórico: algumas considerações sobre a teoria marxista do romance de György Lukács by Rafael da Rocha Massuia

“…In the present paper we will discuss, in general terms, the historical and social implications of the analysis performed by the Hungarian Marxist philosopher György Lukács on the novel. For that, we will make a brief resumption of the context of the emergence of his literary-aesthetic work, which emerges with a striking contrast to the previous theories carried out in the field of Marxism on the said theme. …”
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Max Weber's concept of feudalism and history of Lithuania by Zenonas Norkus

“…The second pole is approximated by the Marxist socio-economic theories of feudalism. M. Weber's concept of feudalism is formulated in terms of political sociology and is localized in the middle of this continuum. …”
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Le passage du fordisme au néolibéralisme au Canada by Jean-Guy Loranger, Gérard Boismenu

“…A dynamic heterodox model for an open economy is built from the Marxist and Regulationist approaches. Although the Error Correction Model (cointegration analysis) is rarely used by heterodox economists, that method of estimation is used for a long-run period 1947-1999 and for two sub-periods: 1947-75 and 1976-99. …”
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Enzensberger's challenge to leftist communicologists by Eric Louw

“…Importantly, Enzensberger was not content with merely attacking the (Marxist-domi nated) Left Rather, he simulta neously proposed an 'alternative' left-wing communication theory. …”
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Franki Raffles, photographe engagée : la photographie féministe en Écosse dans les années 1980 et 1990 by Marine Benoit-Blain

“…Heavily influenced by far-left schools of thought, particularly Marxist-Leninist philosophy, she subverted a univocal tradition of representation to make photography a tool for dialogue and communication. …”
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Nicholas Nickleby, Adaptation, Rehearsal and Catharsis by Luc Bouvard

“…The 1947 Cavalcanti version uses the film to clearly state its adaptation process and flaunt its formal independence from the initial literary text while the Jim Goddard shooting of the David Edgar-Trevor Nunn-John Caird’s 9-hour long adaptation stands as a Marxist manifesto. The recent B.B.C. version directed by Stephen Whittaker dwells on the Nicholas-Smike didactic relationship and Douglas McGrath seems to continue along that line while stressing the pseudo-psychoanalytical relationship between the two characters. …”
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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND NIGERIA'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT by Bashir Abdullahi, Labajirge Bedan Silas, Ibrahim Idris Pindiga

“…The study relied on the secondary data while content analysis was employed in analyzing the gathered data. Marxist Theory of Unemployment was used as a framework of analysis in this study. …”
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