Author Archives: darkosuvin

WHAT IS TO BE DONE? A FIRST STEP (2015, 9,800 words)

Where We Are; 2. Who Are We (Proletarians, Plebeians Today)?; 3. Decolonising the Mind; 4. Neither With You nor Without You: On an Anti-capitalist Political Party in the 2010s; 5. What Now?: Initial Proposals

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ON BRECHT’S “THE MANIFESTO”: COMMENTS FOR READERS IN ENGLISH (2015, 9,100 words)

Part 1 is the translation by D. Suvin of a putative poem by Brecht Das Manifest (The Manifesto) pieced together from his various versions from 1944 on.  Part 2 is a comment article that discusses Brecht’s intention in 1944-45 to … Continue reading

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COMMUNISM CAN ONLY BE RADICAL PLEBEIAN DEMOCRACY: REMARKS ON THE EXPERIENCE OF S.F.R. YUGOSLAVIA AND ON CIVIL SOCIETY (2015, 13,500 words)

International Critical Thought 6.2 (2016): 165-89., 2016 The essay is divided into approach and two parts plus a short summation. The approach poses the theme of nexus between communism and democracy as the only hope to oppose the present neo-fascist … Continue reading

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(with Sezgin Boynik) COMMUNICATING VESSELS (2014-15, 18,700 words)

Interview with SB on Formalism vs. class history in culture, especially in Yugoslavia 1945-65, also in general.

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WHERE ARE WE: AND A RADICAL WAY OUT (2015, 5,930 words)

Darko Suvin                                                                          2nd version … Continue reading

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FROM THE ARCHEOLOGY OF MARXISM AND COMMUNISM (2009-2015, 16000 words)

Darko Suvin (2013) “From the Archeology of Marxism and Communism: Two Essays in Political Epistemology”, Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, 21:2-3, 279-311, , 2013 Of the two relatively independent parts here, Part 1. characterizes at length three … Continue reading

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GOODBYE AND HELLO: DIFFERENTIATING WITHIN THE LATER P.K. DICK (2015, 14,960 words)

Darko Suvin                                                                             … Continue reading

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Preface 2015 to Considering the Sense of “Fantasy” or “Fantastic Fiction”: An Effusion (850 words)

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CIRCUMSTANCES AND STANCES: A RETROSPECT (2004, 2,800 words)

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PREFACE 2015 TO THE RE-EDITION OF METAMORPHOSES OF SF: CONTRADICTION AND RESISTANCE (2015, 4,500 words)

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