Enzo Traverso - Critique of Modern Barbarism, review by Herman Pieterson.

Preface by Daniel Bensaid
Translated by Gregor Benton
Edited with an introduction by Penelope Duggan

Llivio Maitan's Memoirs of a Critical Communist tells the life of revolutionary communist in the second half of the 20th century. From his early commitment to communism under fascism in Italy, Livio chose to be 'against the current' by rejecting both Stalinism and social democracy, and charted a curse towards democratic and revolutionary Marxism.

In Mid-July, the IIRE again organized a women's seminar. A report and some photos can be found here. Here, we publish a report by Penny Duggan, one of the organizers of the seminar. 

In this new collection of essays, Enzo Traverso examines the relationships between anti-Semitism, modernity and the Holocaust. Traverso analyses multiple dimensions of the destruction of the European Jews, debates over the historical memory and left-wing debates on the nature of anti-Semitism.

Inspired by the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and the heterodox Marxism of a thinker like Walter Benjamin, Traverso argues that after Auschwitz,  critical thought needs to reconsider the notion of progress as such.

The past summer, the IIRE again organized a Youth School and a Women's seminar. 

First up was the Women’s Seminar which took place 13-17 July.