#58 - March 2012
Introduction
Genesis of this article
This article was written originally for domestic readers in the author’s homeland, China, and aimed at some serious problems of so-called Sinicized Marxism,...
Partially stimulated by the Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, the issue of universal values is hotly debated in present-day China. The excellent performance and altruistic virtues that Chinese people displayed in response to this...
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Mackenzie Wark, The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and Glorious Times of the Situationist International (London/New York: Verso, 2011).
Richard Gilman-Opalsky, Spectacular Capitalism: Guy Debord and the...
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This extraordinary book appears near the head of the new radical “...
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson, (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2010).
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Edward P. Morgan, What Really Happened to the 1960s: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010)
Have you ever wondered why generations that grew up in...
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Steve Martinot wants to contribute to a critical tradition in race...
Bruno Gulli, Earthly Plenitudes: A Study on Sovereignty and Labor (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010)
Earthly Plenitudes is a deft study of sovereignty in its relationship to labor. It...
Georg Adler, Peter Hudis, and Annalies Laschitza, eds., The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, trans. George Shriver (New York and London: Verso Books, 2011)
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Keith Bolender, Voices from the Other Side: An Oral History of Terrorism against Cuba (London: Pluto Press, 2010)
Americans know close to nothing about the long history of terrorist attacks against...
Marcello Musto, ed., Karl Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years After (New York: Routledge, 2008)
The existence of the Grundrisse was unknown for more...
David Harvey, A Companion to Marx’s Capital (London: Verso, 2010)
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Peter Knapp and Alan J. Spector, Crisis and Change Today: Basic Questions of Marxist Sociology, 2nd ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)
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