ABOUT CARLOS L. GARRIDOMA & BA Philosophy, PhD Candidate in PhilosophyCarlos is a Cuban American philosophy instructor at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He also works as a director for the Midwestern Marx Institute and authored The Purity Fetish and the Crisis of Western Marxism (2023), Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview (2022), and the forthcoming Hegel, Marxism, and Dialectics. Carlos writes on Marxism, philosophy, and geopolitics in scholarly and popular settings and runs the Substack called Philosophy in Crisis.