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Milton Leitenberg’s biological warfare hoax theory is not believable. For the past three decades, Leitenberg has paraded the thesis that the allegations of biological warfare use leveled...
#76 - March 2018
Article
"Recentering" Revolution
Concluding an essay written in the twilight years of the Soviet Union, Robin Blackburn quoted Raymond Williams to argue that it is “only in very complex ways, and by moving confidently towards very complex societies, that we can defeat...
In my earlier work on gender and revolutions (Moghadam 1997), I developed a model of gendered revolutionary processes and outcomes, by which bourgeois, socialist and populist revolutions are classified as either egalitarian (“the women'...
Only he who builds the future has a right to judge the past.
F. Nietzsche
Les choses pourraient être autrement. (Things could be otherwise.)
R. Ruyer
“We...
Anniversaries of momentous historical events often trigger calls to glean some wisdom from those events, some lesson. Yet, in thinking about this particular anniversary—the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution—I find myself...
The left is plagued by a lack of strategy or vision. We seem to be stuck within a treadmill of activism and hyperactivity while nothing changes around us. And when election time rolls around in the United States, we are told to “shut up...
More than any other historical figure . . . a biography of
Stalin . . . comes to approximate a history of the world.1...
China Miéville October: The Story of the Russian Revolution. (New York and London: Verso, 2017)
“Fired up, firing, fired upon,” Miéville’s October transports its readers to the factories,...
Dialogue
Suren: I would like us to reflect on what Socialism and Democracy has achieved within the context of a broader left, and also on what the future may hold for us – especially at this moment where we seem to be...
Book Reviews
Samir Amin, Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016), 144 pp., $21.
In his latest book, Egyptian economist and revolutionary theorist Samir Amin...
*Eric Hobsbawm, Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century (New York: New...
China Miéville. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution (London and New York: Verso, 2017).
Miéville’s October is a history of the events in Petrograd between January and November, 1917,...
L.A. Kauffman, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism. (London: Verso, 2017), 236 pp., $17.95
L.A. Kauffman’s valuable book, Direct Action, is both a...
Axel Honneth. The Idea of Socialism: Towards a Renewal. Translated by Joseph Ganahl. (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017), 145 pp., $19.95.
Axel Honneth, a professor of social philosophy at the University...
Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need. (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017), 272 pp., $16.95.
In this inspiring book, Naomi Klein draws from her...
(H)afrocentric comics, Vol.1-4. Written by Juliana “Jewels” Smith, illustrated by Ronald Nelson. Colored by Mike Hampton. (Oakland: PM Press, 2017), 136 pp., $20.
A new generation of African American-comic art is now in...
Mat Callahan and Jim Rogers, (eds.) A Critical Guide to Intellectual Property© (London: Zed, 2017), 281 pp., $29.95.
Unlike the first ten amendments to the US Constitution (known collectively as the “...
Michael E. Brown, The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015), 538 pp., $29.95
This book is a masterful accomplishment that...
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Aijaz Ahmad is a Marxist philosopher, literary theorist and political commentator. He is currently the Chancellor's Professor at the UC Irvine School of Humanities’ Department of Comparative Literature. His publications...