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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)

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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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(With Sezgin Boynik) COMMUNICATING VESSELS: FORMS, POLITICS, HISTORY — INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN (2014-15, 18,700 words)

INTERVIEW WITH DARKO SUVIN* (18,700 words) By Sezgin Boynik, May 2014, Lucca [This piece is forthcoming in Rab-Rab {Helsinki] July 2015] Sezgin Boynik: Can you tell in which way the discussions concerning Brecht and Formalist issues in late fifties and … Continue reading

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THE ECONOMICO-POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF BORIS KIDRIČ: A BETRAYED DISALIENATION (2011-14, 6,200 words)

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