#100 - March 2026

Articles and Conversations

The Prison Question: Maoism, Education, and the Limits of Abolitionism
Nadine J.
Violette
Unequal Exchange, Structural Dependency and Emergence
Pedro
Mattos
AI as Capitalist Tech: Mapping the Contours
Deepak
P
The Interviews of Jean Paul Sartre
George
Snedeker
Global Battlefields: Learning Lessons, Facing Challenges
Walden Bello & Mat
Callahan
Community Wealth Building and Mamdani's Prospects
Joe Guinan & Suren
Moodliar
Speculating Economics from Dune to GameStop: Mark Soderstrom and Joshua Pearson in Conversation
Mark Soderstrom & Joshua
Pearson
Marxism and Literary Criticism: The Evolving Method of Edwin Berry Burgum
Joel
Wendland-Liu
Socialism and Democracy's Bern Symposium
Mat
Callahan
Echoes of Laughter in a Decaying Republic: Amusing Ourselves to Autocracy in a Post-Truth Age of "Alternative Facts"
Keith
Moser

Book Reviews

The Latin American Revolutionary Movement: Proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, June 1929
Reviewed by Steve
Ellner
The Specificity of the Aesthetic
Reviewed by Pu
Wang
The Director
Reviewed by Inez
Hedges
The Knowledge Economy and Socialism: Science and Society in Cuba
Reviewed by Charles
McKelvey
Bombs Bursting in Air: Music and the State
Reviewed by Deborah
Burris-Kitchen
Police Brutality: A Study of Police Culture in the US
Reviewed by Justin Andrew
Hill
The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America
Reviewed by L.V.
Gaither
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
Reviewed by Mat
Callahan
Hubert Harrison: Forbidden Genius of Black Radicalism
Reviewed by Rodney D.
Green
The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is So Little Anti-War Protest in the United States
Reviewed by Anita
Waters
Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle
Reviewed by Nicholas
Cummins
The Making of Council Democracy: State Transformation and Radical Possibilities
Reviewed by Thomas
Kemple
Enter Ghost
Reviewed by Inez
Hedges
Art Music Activism: Aesthetics and Politics in 1930s New York City
Reviewed by Mat
Callahan
The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy Under Capitalism
Reviewed by Anton K.
Jacobs
The Descent of the Dialectic: Phronetic Criticism in an Age of Nihilism
Reviewed by Lauren
Langman
Until We Fall: A Long Distance Life on the Left
Reviewed by Mat
Callahan
Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of the US Empire
Reviewed by Leroy A.
Binns
Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches from the Culture and History of the Left
Reviewed by Joel
Wendland-Liu

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Notes on Contributors