#72 - November 2016
Articles
Reflecting on the Bernie Sanders campaign from the perspective of an underlying crisis of hegemony, I'd like to show basically two things. 1. The astonishing appeal of the campaign can only be fully grasped if we take into account that...
Introduction
On May 12, 2016, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) – the union representing faculty and staff at the City University of New York –...
Introduction
The recuperation of enterprises by their workers in Argentina has achieved ample social legitimacy despite its disruptive...
Something startles me where I thought I was safest.
-- Walt Whitman1
Introduction
Penal policy in the West took a punitive turn in the mid-1980s. The period since the late ‘60s...
This essay attempts to establish both (a) a link between culture and politics and (b) a 150-year progression in socialist theory and practice that can enlarge our understanding of historical process. Dostoevsky and...
The 17th annual Lagos Book and Art Festival (LABAF), which took place in November 2015, commemorated twenty years since Ken Saro-Wiwa’s passing. Its central theme was ‘Texts of Self-Determination’. The event was a concerted effort to...
Poetry
The Monster of Profit
gnashes the teeth of its gears
and spits out fathers, mothers,
infants who root around for breasts
pumped dry by electricity.
The babies hug bottles
and rock themselves.
...
After the railroading by judges & lawyers,
After the inpod & outside recreation,
After the barbed wires & the fences,
What is left?
After the solitary confinement,
After the five-point...
Book Reviews
William A. Pelz, A People’s History of Modern Europe (London: Pluto Press, 2016), 288 pp., $28.)
These are momentous times in Europe. Having said that, it’s probable that I could have written the same...
Ian Angus, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016), 277 pp., $19.
The Holocene is over. The Anthropocene has begun...
Laurence Shoup, Wall Street’s Think Tank: The Council on Foreign Relations and the Empire of Neoliberal Geopolitics, 1976-2014 (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2015), 352 pp., $34.
Wall Street’s...
Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps, Radicals in America: The U.S. Left Since the Second World War (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 355 pp., $24.99.
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Inez Hedges, World Cinema and Cultural Memory (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 190 pp., $95.00.
It would appear that the distinction...
Roberta Salper, Domestic Subversive: A Feminist’s Take on the Left, 1960-1976 (Tucson, AZ: Anaphora Literary Press, 2014), 234 pp., $20.
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David R. Pilgrim, Understanding Jim Crow: Using Racist Memorabilia to Teach Tolerance and to Promote Social Justice; Foreword by Henry Louis Gates (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), 187...
Melanie E.L. Bush and Roderick D. Bush, Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie, or Reality (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015), 258 pp., $29.95.
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Alvaro García Linera, Plebeian Power: Collective Action and Indigenous, Working-Class and Popular Identities in Bolivia (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2014), 345 pp., $28.
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Samuel Arnold is assistant professor of political science at Texas Christian University (TCU) in Fort Worth, Texas. His publications include articles on John Rawls’s theory of justice, fairness in the distribution of...