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Socialism & Democracy #75, November, 2017
Capitalism Today: Crisis and Response
Kevin B. Anderson, Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Revolutionary Reflections
Victor Wallis, Capitalism Unhinged: Crisis of Legitimacy in the United States
Hester Eisenstein, Comments on Victor Wallis’s “Capitalism Unhinged”
Gerald Meyer, Immigrant Rights: Repression and Resistance
Carl Grey Martin, Political Seizures: Lenin in 2017
Suren Moodliar (Moderator), The Party: What We Need and How to Get It (Roundtable, with remarks by Kali Akuno, Robert Caldwell, Johanna Fernández, Gerald Meyer, Matt Nelson, and Victor Wallis)
Articles
Emma Bell, Brexit and the Illusion of Democracy
Steve McGiffen, On Brexit and Democracy: Response to Emma Bell
Hamideh Sedghi, Trumpism: The Geopolitics of the United States, the Middle East and Iran
Reza Ghorashi, The Significance of Iran’s 2017 Presidential Election
Evangelis Papadimitropoulos, From the Crisis of Democracy to the Commons
Tom Powell, Korean War Biological Warfare Update
Review Essay
Michael Principe, Debunking a Myth or Distorting the Record? Samuel Farber on Che Guevara
Book Reviews
Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition reviewed by Mat Callahan
Patrick Wolfe, Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race reviewed by Steven Delmagori
Sarah D. Wald, The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship and Farming since the Dust Bowl reviewed by Theo Majka
Paul Le Blanc, Left Americana: The Radical Heart of U.S. History reviewed by Paul Buhle
Michael Barker,Under the Mask of Philanthropy reviewed by Joan Roelofs
Andrew T. Lamas, Todd Wolfson and Peter N. Funke, eds., The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements reviewed by Peter Seybold
Samir Amin, The Reawakening of the Arab World: Challenges and Change in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring reviewed by Yousef Khalil
Daniel Egan, The Dialectic of Position and Maneuver: Understanding Gramsci’s Military Metaphor reviewed by Joe Cleffie
Robert Roth, Book of Pieces reviewed by Barbara Conn
Film Review
Heidi Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel, When Two Worlds Collide reviewed by Gerardo Renique
Notes on Contributors
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Category Archives: Volume 20, No. 1
Speeding up Fast Capitalism: Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies
Ben Agger, Speeding up Fast Capitalism: Cultures, Jobs, Families, Schools, Bodies (Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2004). Another specter is haunting capitalism – this time, fast acceleration and its uncertain consequences. This is a profound book and also a real adventure. Although … Continue reading
Superpower Principles: U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba
Salim Lamarani, ed., Superpower Principles: U.S. Terrorism Against Cuba (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2005). This slim volume is packed full of information about US aggression against Cuba, but more specifically focuses on the case of the Cuban Five. These … Continue reading
The Emerging Police State
William M. Kunstler, The Emerging Police State. Edited by Michael Steven Smith, Karin Kunstler Goldman, and Sarah Kunstler (New York: Ocean Press, 2004). This short book should be required reading for every left and liberal person in the US. Built … Continue reading
Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison
Kathy Kelly, Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison (Petrolia, CA: CounterPunch Books; Oakland: AK Press, 2005). In a civilized nation, Kathy Kelly’s peacemaking activities would make her widely known. Thus she has scant name recognition in the … Continue reading
Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives
Louis Kontos, David Brotherton and Luis Barrios, eds., Gangs and Society: Alternative Perspectives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003). This collection of fifteen articles examines the question of gangs in society from a critical criminology perspective, challenging orthodox criminological and … Continue reading
Philosophical Arabesques
“A Film Run Backwards”: Bukharin’s Voice from the Dead Nikolai Bukharin, Philosophical Arabesques, translated by Renfrey Clarke with editorial assistance by George Shriver; Introduction by Helena Sheehan (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2005). After Trotsky, Nikolai Bukharin may have been … Continue reading
Marx-Engels Jahrbuch, Vols. 1-2
Marx-Engels Jahrbuch, Vols. 1-2 (Amsterdam: Marx-Engels Foundation; Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2004, 2005). What can the reader expect from a yearbook which is published in connection with the all-inclusive edition of the writings and manuscripts left by Marx and Engels, the … Continue reading
What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States II
Interview #2 Dave Zirin. What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005). Of course there is exploitation but there is fun and beauty too. I mean, what’s more beautiful than a 6-4-3 double … Continue reading
What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States
Dave Zirin. What’s My Name, Fool? Sports and Resistance in the United States (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005). [We present two reviews of this book; they complement one another. The duplication was unplanned but appears fortuitous in view of the book’s … Continue reading
The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West
Sean McMeekin, The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg, Moscow’s Secret Propaganda Tsar in the West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). What, in this globalised and informatised capitalist world order, are we to make of Willi Münzenberg, … Continue reading