#68 - June 2015
Articles
In this essay I take the position that civil and human rights for lesbian and gay people are essentially the same as those for African Americans. Both the Civil Rights and Gay Rights movements are part of the same movement for...
In this article I offer a preliminary account of the role of metaphor as a representational strategy In Capital Volume One by Karl Marx. While extensive consideration and debate has been concerned with Marx’s writing on...
The new approaches to democracy formulated in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador have often been hastily condemned, based on hegemonic “elitist” or “procedural” approaches to democratic theory. A counter-hegemonic approach based on...
“Remorse is for children.” (Eichmann)
“I cannot look at any more maps. The names of cities reek of burnt flesh.” (Elias Canetti)
“Genocide is the absolute integration…Auschwitz confirmed the idea of pure identity as death...
Frank Rosengarten
Frank Rosengarten, Through Partisan Eyes: My Friendships, Literary Education, and Encounters in Italy, 1956-2013 (Florence: Florence University Press, 2014)
Frank Rosengarten was a truly remarkable man—...
Frank Rosengarten, The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci (Brill, 2014; Haymarket pb, 2015)
The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci collects essays written by Frank Rosengarten, a...
Frank Rosengarten. Giacomo Leopardi’s Search for a Common Life through Poetry (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2012).
Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) is an enigmatic and emblematic figure...
Lawrence J. Friedman, The Lives of Erich Fromm - Love’s Prophet (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013)
This well written and meticulously researched biography of Erich Fromm is organized around...
1. Michael E. Brown
Frank Rosengarten and I were colleagues at Queens College from 1967 until his early retirement, which I remember asking him to reconsider in the light of what he had to offer students. By then...
Review Essay
Lucio Magri, The Tailor of Ulm: Communism in the Twentieth century, translated by Patrick Camiller (London: Verso, 2011).
Magri, born in 1932, was a leading member and, together with Rossana Rossanda,...
Tribute
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Randy Martin’s death leaves a considerable void in cultural studies, the sociology of financialization and the debt economy, dance theory, labor studies, art and politics, and Marxist theory. The range of his...
Exchange on "Socialist Democracy and Solidarity"
George Snedeker (GS) reads my article [in S&D, March 2015] as a plea for 'being good,' as a "voluntaristic… psychological theory of democracy." He misses a discussion of "class relations and class power." He thinks that, the paper's...
Richard Schmitt, in his original article, failed to discuss the social basis for solidarity. He still fails to do so.
No one denies that solidarity is a requisite to building socialism, but the question was how to extend it...
Book Reviews
Mark Naison, Badass Teachers Unite! (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014)
This little book is comprised of essays and posts by Mark Naison, a professor of African-American Studies and History at Fordham...
David Lansky, The Cutting Edge (Xlibris, 2013).
The Cutting Edge is a satirical novel about college life. The main character, a sociology professor, is especially concerned with problems...
Ravi Malhotra and Morgan Rowe, Exploring Disability Identity and Disability Rights through Narratives: Finding a Voice of Their Own (New York: Routledge, 2014)
How do disabled people understand and...
Arundhati Roy, Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013.
For more than a decade, Arundhati Roy has been on the front lines of struggle against capitalist globalization, imperialist war,...
Frederic Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic (London: Verso, 2010)
Over the course of a nearly fifty year career, Frederic Jameson has maintained his devotion to dialectical thinking in the face of...
Fredric Jameson, Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One (New York: Verso, 2011)
Fredric Jameson’s career as a literary critic and social theorist has been defined by the exchange between his...
Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism (London: Verso, 2014)
Jameson’s The Antinomies of Realism is primarily concerned with questions of literary form, yet the readings it offers invite...
Seyed Javad Miri, ed. Orientalism: A Eurocentric Vision of the ‘Other’ (London: International Peace Studies Press, 2013)
2013 marked 35 years since the initial publication of Edward Said’s ...
Craig J. Peariso, Radical Theatrics: Put-Ons, Politics, and the Sixties (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2014)
The 1960s and early ‘70s were characterized in the US and internationally by radical...
John Marsh, In Walt We Trust (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015).
Unscrew the locks from the doors! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs! -- Walt Whitman...
Leonard Covello with Guido D'Agostino, The Heart is the Teacher. Afterword by Gerald Meyer (New York: Calandra Italian American Institute, 2013)
Pedagogy of Place
Leonard Covello’...
Luciana Castellina, Discovery of the World: A Political Awakening in the Shadow of Mussolini (London and New York: Verso, 2014)
The political life of Luciana Castellina, one of the most prominent voices...
ibn Kenyatta, poems for an imperiled world (Xlibris, 2014)
This slender but tensile volume of twenty-five poems contains “passionate songs” sung from “above and beyond the blues / but still underneath...
Brian King, So Long, Vietnam (Seattle: Thirty Second Street Raccoons Publishing, 2013)
So Long, Vietnam, a muscular, vigorous, even darkly comic, antiwar novel about the Vietnam War, is built...
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Fabricio Pereira da Silva is Associate Professor of Political Studies at University of Rio de Janeiro, and also teaches in the PhD program in Political Science at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. His fields of...