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...
#80 - July 2019
Socialist Strategy
While Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the English Working Class is almost universally praised as an honest, insightful and indeed profound picture of working-class life in Manchester in the 1840s, much of the rest of his...
Antonio Gramsci’s critical evaluation of Rosa Luxemburg, specifically her theory of the mass strike, found in his Prison Notebooks is an important element in his discussion of hegemony and revolutionary political strategy. For...
Articles
Introduction
In this essay we will look at the arguments pro and con in regard to US biological warfare during the Korean War as they have been made in the subject literature. After the first decade of post-Korean War secrecy,...
…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...
The themes of imprisonment and exile figure prominently in the poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) who spent several years in jail and dedicated his life as a journalist, educator, and poet to preserving Pakistan’s artistic and...
Introduction
In the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, generally speaking, tragedy and comedy were two genres which were held apart. The Roman playwright Plautus used the expression ‘tragicomedy’, it is true. But this was...
Book Reviews
Mike Davis. Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory. (London and New York: Verso, 2018). 294 pp. $26.95 / £17.99.
To say that the second centenary of Karl Marx’s birth arrived at an opportune moment would be an...
Victor Wallis, Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism (Toronto and Chicago: Political Animal Press, 2018) 222 pp., $18.25
In the thirty years since James Hansen's landmark...
Darko Suvin, Splendour, Misery, and Possibilities: An X-ray of Socialist Yugoslavia, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2018, xxi + 428 pp., $28.00.
The reviewer is not a specialist on the history of the Balkans or Socialist...
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,...
Van Sciver, Noah; Buhle, Paul; Max, Steve and Nance, Dave, Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography (New York, London: Verso Books 2018) 128 pp., $19.95.
Eugene Debs is a socialist legend, especially in the United States,...
Norman Pollack, Capitalism, Hegemony, and Violence in the Age of Drones. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan 2018, 483 pages; $179.99.
Norman Pollack established himself in the 1960s as one of the...
Sylvia Federici. Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons. (Oakland: PM Press, 2019), 256 pp., $19.95
Sylvia Federici is perhaps the most prominent feminist Marxist scholar of our time....
Peter Phillips, Giants: The Global Power Elite, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2018, 384 pp., $19.95.
In the history of the debate on the structure of power in the United States and elsewhere there have...
Augustine Comotto, Prisoner 155: Simon Radowitzky. Introduction by Stuart Christie. Translated by Luigi Celentano (Chico: AK Press, 2018), 272 pp., 8x11” color. $26.
This is an extraordinary creation in...