#86-87 - July-Nov 2021

After the Postmodern Detour

Of Wolves in Sheep's Clothing and the Damage Done
Barbara Epstein & Mat
Callahan
What is the Common Good?
Keti Chukhrov & Mat
Callahan
Sophistry, Politics and Philosophy
Mat Callahan & Helena
Sheehan

Articles

Shifting Focus: Organizing for Revolution, Not Crisis Avoidance, Part 1
Kali Akuno , Brian Drolet & Doug
Norberg
Rethinking Power: Responding to the Crisis of Neoliberal Hegemony?
Emma
Bell
Lessons of Socialist Reformisms: Revisiting the German, Swedish, and French Social Democracies
Saeed
Rahnema
The Full Employment Road to Socialism: The Job Guarantee Movement of the 1970s and the Challenge to Capitalism
Michael
Dennis
The Marketization of Gender Equality: A Historical Perspective
Kevin T.
Sharp
Wars for Oil, Wars by Oil: Understanding Petro-Autocracy and the ‘New’ Imperialism
Jesse
Harasta
Engels’s Military Thought: Historical Materialism and Modern Warfare
Damian
Winczewski
Counter-Hegemonic Strategy from the Global South: A Pluri-scalar War of Position
Thomas
Muhr
“Popular participation in every essential measure:” The Influence of Cuban Mass Political Participation on State Economic and Labour Policy
Jack Grimley
Ward
Alone with Berlin: The Infirmity of Isaiah’s Liberalism
Tony
McKenna
In “solidarity with the so-called ‘backward’” – On John Berger
David B.
Downing
Doing Justice Without Prisons: A Framework to Build the Abolitionist Movement
Ti
Lamusse
Never Throw Away the Key: The Compassionate Radicalism of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy
Joseph G.
Ramsey
Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: Prison, Crime, Freedom
Kurt
Stand

Poem

A Tremble in the Rails
Joel
Sronce

Book Reviews

Facing Catastrophe: Food, Politics, and the Ecological Crisis
Reviewed by Tracy
Lassiter
The Ministry for the Future
Reviewed by Inez
Hedges
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution
Reviewed by Allan
Ainsworth
Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective
Reviewed by Malik Fercovic
Cerda
Research, Political Engagement, and Dispossession: Indigenous, Peasant, and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia
Reviewed by Zachary T.
King
Revolution: An Intellectual History
Reviewed by Mat
Callahan
Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
Reviewed by Nicolás
Arenas
Just Theory
Reviewed by Tracy
Lassiter
A Left that Dares to Speak its Name: 34 Untimely Interventions
Reviewed by Jorge E.
Cuéllar
American Community: Radical Experiments in Intentional Living
Reviewed by Joan
Roelofs
Workers’ Self-Management in Argentina: Contesting Neo-liberalism by Occupying Companies, Creating Cooperatives, and Recuperating Autogestión
Reviewed by Katherine
Sobering
Political Mourning: Identity and Responsibility in the Wake of Tragedy
Reviewed by Barbara H.
Chasin PhD
Hands Up, Herbie!
Reviewed by Billy
Lopez
Mike Gold: The People’s Writer
Reviewed by Harry R.
Targ
The Benjamin Files
Reviewed by Paul
Stasi
Soldiers of the Revolution: The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune
Reviewed by Daniel
Egan
Able to Lead: Disablement, Radicalism and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley
Reviewed by Paul
Buhle
Staging History From the Shoah to Palestine: Three Plays and Essays on WWII and its Aftermath
Reviewed by Roberta
Salper