Vol. 26, No. 3
Historical-Materialist Considerations on the Resistible Fall of James Holmes and the Pathologization and Culturalization of the Cinema Massacre in Aurora, Colorado1
The Pathology of the Eternal...
#60 - November 2012
In the Seat of Empire
Contemporary Popular Movements
Grassroots insurgencies are today multiplying across the planet. Not organized by any one party or organization, the current wave of uprisings appears to be derived in opposition to local injustices, yet in significant ways, these...
What are the attitudes and inclinations of today’s young generation of wage-earners toward collective organization, in the context of developed capitalism? I explore this question on the basis of surveys carried out in France and...
Every human being, whether child or adult, has the right to become
educated in all fields of knowledge – ancient and modern, practical
and theoretical, concrete and speculative, literary, artistic, scientific,
and...
On August 5, 2011, Ecuadoran president Rafael Correa appointed long-time Indigenous leader Ricardo Ulcuango as ambassador to Bolivia. Typically the nomination of an Indigenous ambassador would have been greeted with applause and should...
Displaced by a nationally coordinated campaign of police evictions, occupiers for months now have been mulling over new ways to give our scattered movement some kind of home-base, to refocus our efforts, to re-activate...
Cuba: A New Direction?
Satisfying the basic material and cultural needs of their citizens remains an unfulfilled promise for the majority of the world’s states. Cuba’s 1976 Constitution (amended 1992) made this an official goal (article 17). It also...
Introduction
Once again Cuba is in the midst of structural change. Unlike the adjustments made in the 1990s (required by the re-insertion in the international economy that resulted from the collapse of...
(New and old news around the National Conference of the Cuban Communist Party)
In April 2011, the Cuban Communist Party (PCC for its initials in Spanish) held its Sixth Congress – 14 years after the previous one...
Review Essay
Paul Blackledge and Kelvin Knight, eds. Virtue and Politics: Alasdair MacIntyre's Revolutionary Aristotelianism (Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 2011).
"Life is short...
Book Reviews
Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini, eds., Ours to Master and to Own: Workers’ Control from the Commune to the Present (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011).
Ours to Master and to Own...
Michael Lebowitz, The Contradictions of Real Socialism: The Conductor and the Conducted (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012).
The issue of “Real Socialism” has plagued the global Left since 1917....
James Cronin, George Ross, and James Shoch (eds.) What’s Left of the Left: Democrats and Social Democrats in Challenging Times (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2011).
Right...
Stephen Eric Bronner, Socialism Unbound: Principles, Practices, and Prospects, 3rd ed. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011).
The first edition of Socialism Unbound, published in 1990,...
Paul Blackledge, Marxism and Ethics: Freedom, Desire, and Revolution (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012).
Ethics and History
If anything sets Marx apart from his...
John W. Maerhofer, Rethinking the Vanguard: Aesthetic and Political Positions in the Modernist Debate, 1917-1962. New Castle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009
How has political revolution figured into...
Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator (London: Verso, 2011).
Perhaps best known for co-authoring Reading Capital with Louis Althusser, Jacques Rancière is a contemporary political...
Stefan Szczelkun, ed. (with Anthony Iles), Agit Disco (London: Mute Books, 2012).
As its title suggests, Agit Disco is about politics and recorded music. According to its...
David Gullette, Dreaming Nicaragua (Boston: Fenway Press, 2010).
Jesse Pelletier is a Vietnam vet whose marriage broke up long ago. He’s living now in San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua...
Marcella Bencivenni, Italian Immigrant Radical Culture: The Idealism of the Sovversivi in the United States, 1890-1940 (New York: New York University Press, 2011).
Over the past few decades, scholars...
Robin Blackburn, The Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln (London: Verso, 2011).
Robin Blackburn, the British sociologist and veteran Marxist, underscores the promise and shortcomings of...
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Claudio Albertani, a historian, political scientist, and journalist, is a professor and researcher at the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM). Educated in Italy, he has lived in Mexico since 1979. He is the...