By placing cultural health above narrow sectional prejudices,...
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Articles
Samir Amin: This twin reality – capital’s exploitation of everybody and...
Introduction
The neo-conservative movement in the United States has strong intellectual origins. Many of its founding members were radicals--heavily influenced by Leon Trotsky--who eventually became disillusioned...
Americans know little of the Korean War beyond its sad sobriquet as America’s “forgotten war.” This brutal war which lasted three years and killed four million Koreans has largely been forgotten by the US public. It has moldered...
In the northern hemisphere’s autumn of 2019, I was asked to offer a seminar on a leading Western Marxist philosopher. I quickly chose Domenico Losurdo, since he is clearly one of the most insightful European Marxists who has the...
Is it productive to talk about revenge in the context of capitalism? As Max Haiven reveals in his new book Revenge Capitalism,1...
We can be grateful that the mainstream debate about structural racism has not only directly targeted, with renewed energy and breadth, the state violence lurking under the name of “criminal justice.” It now increasingly attends to...
COVID-19 and the Crises
The world is sick, capitalism is the disease, socialism is the cure.
The pandemic presents an opportunity. It does so by making humanity conscious of itself in its threefold character: biological, political,...
The pandemic exposes us all. The powerful links between disease, social class, healthcare, economics, and politics can no longer be concealed, so the underside of the American dream has been laid bare...
Comrade by Jodi Dean
Amidst deepening crisis and growing unrest, questions of organization and strategy are more urgent than ever. With a young generation casting off decades of anti-...
I cannot review this book except in the first person singular, since it intersects with and is of great help to my longstanding efforts to draw a balance sheet of the communist movement, Marxism, and the Party form...
A key figure helping to stir a resurgence of communist thought in the United States, Jodi Dean stands out for the consistency, accessibility, and force with which she has made the argument that, in order to break out of the...
Poems
Can you help me with common core?
I know 2+2 is 4
...This classroom will not be a safe space
This classroom...
With filial greetings to ...
Book Reviews
Victor Wallis, Socialist Practice: Histories and Theories ...
Victor Wallis, Democracy Denied: Five Lectures on U.S. Politics; with Introduction by Johanna Fernández and illustrations by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson (Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2019), xxv + 124...
Johanna Fernández, The Young Lords: A Radical History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), Hardcover, 480 pp, $30.
In...
Nadina LaSpina, Such A Pretty Girl: A Story of Struggle, Empowerment, and Disability Pride. (Oakland, CA: New Village Press, 2019),332 pp. $19.95
The story of Nadina LaSpina’s life told in Such A Pretty Girl...
Pero Gaglo Dagbovie. Reclaiming the Black Past: The Use and Misuse of African American History in the Twenty-First Century (New York: Verso Books, 2018), 224 pp...
Zillah Eisenstein, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution. (New York, Monthly Review Press), 2019, 160 pages, $20.00.
Zillah Eisenstein’s “deeply felt intellectual polemic” (13), drawn from the...
Barbara Tomlinson and George Lipsitz, Insubordinate Spaces: Improvisation and Accompaniment for Social Justice. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2019),...
Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019). 528pp., $30 (cloth).
Todd Miller, Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around...
Michael Joseph Roberto, The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920-1940, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2018, 463 pp., $25.00.
Michael...
Jeremy Kuzmarov and John Marciano, ...
Jamie Longazel, Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2016. 204 pp. paper $27.95.
This excellent study analyzes important...
Kanishka Chowdhury, Human Rights Discourse in the Post-9/11 Age. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), 235 pages, $84.99.
In the current moment of capitalist crisis, rising neo-fascism, unending war, climate catastrophe,...
Marcello Musto, Another Marx: Early Manuscripts to the International, trans. Patrick Camiller (London: Bloomsbury, 2018, 272 pp., $35.95)
Any author of a book on Marx at the time of the second centenary (1818–2018)...
Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography, trans. Patrick Camiller (Stanford, CA: Stanford...
Marcello Musto (ed). Marx’s ‘Capital’ after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism. (London: Routledge, 2019) 312 pages,$48.95.
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John F. Levin and Earl Silbar, Editors. You Say You Want a Revolution. (San Francsico: 1741 Press, 2019), 404 pages, $18.95.
You Say You Want a Revolution is among a handful of books that deal with Maoism in the...
Jedediah Purdy, This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019) 164 pages, $19....
Eric Olin Wright, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century, Afterword by Michael Burawoy, (New York/London: Verso, 2019), 157 pages, $29.95....
Doug Enaa Greene, Communist Insurgent: Blanqui’s Politics of Revolution. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017. 292 pp., $19.00.
What obstacle threatens the revolution of...
Joseph Nevins, Suren Moodliar, and Eleni Macrakis, A People's Guide to Greater Boston (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020), 313 pp., $24.95...
Henry A. Giroux, Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (2nd edition). Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2020. 237 pages, $19.
In this book Giroux details the devastation wreaked by neoliberalism on major social...
Rob Wallace, Dead Epidemiologists: On the Origins of COVID-19. (Monthly Review Press, New York, 2020) 260 pages. $17.00.
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