the mischaracterizations of Marx’s ideas were quite fantastic (as were his calumnies against them)

But such a reconstruction from fragmentary sources, no matter how exegetically rigorous, should not be construed as the “true Marx.”

The missing volume, in other words, would presumably have adumbrated a theory of proletarian agency as an integral aspect of this self-making of labor as antagonist of capital

It was left to Luxemburg, in her writing on primitive accumulation as an ongoing requirement of valorization

A large plant was often a fractious congeries that recapitulated the ethnic and geographical rivalries of the larger society.

Thus, in the case of Los Angeles—and in fact all the cities of the Pacific littoral from Seattle to Valparaiso to Yokohama—the ultimate battleground against the open shop was the harbor

The same pattern of “agglomerated villages” (actually large towns in many cases) characterized the latifundian societies of Andalusia and Apulia, both bastions of anarcho-syndicalism.

After a complicated choreography of alliances and conspiracies, Napoleon’s quondam nephew Louis Bonaparte was elected president by a rural majority