Helena Sheehan, Navigating the Zeitgeist

Helena Sheehan, Navigating the Zeitgeist, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2019, 308 pp., $25.

Navigating the Zeitgeist, is the first volume of Helena Sheehan's two-part autobiography, covering the period between her birth in 1944 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Sheehan's many books and essays include, Marxism and the Philosophy of Science, which made a vital contribution to both Marxism and philosophy when it was published in 1985, remaining relevant, even urgent, to this day.

Speculators and Scoundrels in South Africa’s Secondary Circuit of Capital: A Turbulent Investment Climate at Durban’s Point Waterfront

…the urban waterfront has become a new frontier of the city with opportunities for significant aesthetic, economic, social and environmental benefits; it is also the new battleground over conflict between public and private interest – Kim Dovey1

Lessons of the Second Revolutions: Revisiting the Russian, German, Chinese and Vietnamese Socialist Revolutions

The inscription on a big rock at the cemetery in Berlin where a number of great German socialist leaders are laid to rest, reads: “Die Toten Mahnen Uns” (The dead admonish us). There are two ways to interpret this captivating phrase, regardless of its intended meaning: either that the dead urge us to remember and follow what these great pioneers did, or a warning, to learn from their experiences and follow alternative paths. Considering the historical experiences of modern socialist movements worldwide and their successes and failures, I tend to adhere to the latter.

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