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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
Category Archives: 73
Government vs. Constitutionality: On the Subject of Due Process
By Steve Martinot Introduction In May 2015, in the middle of the night, three students in Berkeley were stopped by local police a few blocks from campus. They were walking home after late-night studying for finals. Two of them, a … Continue reading
Chad Pearson, Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 303 pp., $55. Chad Pearson’s book provides an alternative perspective on the growth of the anti-union movement in the US. Through studying employers’ associations and civic organizations, the author argues that the open shop … Continue reading
Megan Erickson, Class War: The Privatization of Childhood
(New York: Verso, 2015), 230 pp., $16.95. It’s a political truism that the easiest and most emotionally effective way to hammer home a point is to gesture to the children. Who, we’re asked, will think of the children? “The children”—specifically … Continue reading
Heidi Hoechst, Life in and Against the Odds: Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S. Culture
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015), 284 pp., $34.95 When is a history not a history? When it drowns its story in a swamp of commentary. When is commentary not commentary? When it pretends to tell a story that it assumes … Continue reading
Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism and Historical Practice, Vol. I & Vol. II
Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism and Historical Practice, Vol. I: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015), 526 pp., $206; Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism and Historical Practice, Vol. II: Interventions and Appreciations (Leiden and Boston: … Continue reading
Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, and Paula Rabinowitz, eds., Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald
(Ann Arbor, MI: Maize Books, 2015), 406 pp., $37.50. Few figures on the left have managed to so define a field of study that their absence would seem incomprehensible to anyone looking at research and writing in the area. It … Continue reading
Wang Hui (Saul Thomas ed.), China’s Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality
(London and New York: Verso, 2016), 368 pp., $29.95. China’s Twentieth Century is a new collection of Wang Hui’s essays edited by Saul Thomas and translated by a diverse group of scholars. Wang is a prominent figure in “the New … Continue reading
Henry Giroux, America’s Addiction to Terrorism, with a foreword by Michael D. Yates
(New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016), 288 pp., $20. Henry Giroux is one of our foremost critical voices. With America’s Addiction to Terrorism, he once again applies his critical pedagogy to the US, finding a common thread of growing authoritarian … Continue reading
You Are Not a Marxist on Your Own
Review essay by Robert Cohen Wolfgang Fritz Haug, “Marxistsein/Marxistinsein.” Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism). Wolfgang Fritz Haug et al. (eds.). Hamburg: Argument. Vol. 8/II (2015), Columns 1965-2026 (referred to in the text by column [col.] number). Every now … Continue reading
Biological Warfare in the Korean War: Allegations and Cover-up
By Thomas Powell I I weigh into the subject of biological warfare (BW) with trepidation. It’s not my field of study. It was in fact, my father’s topic which he researched quite thoroughly, both in China in 1951-53, and later … Continue reading