#73 - March 2017
Editors' Note
From the Editors
Deep and broad-based mobilizations have met Trump’s assault on working people and their gains. These are only first steps toward reversing direction. As the mobilized expand their efforts, they...
Articles
Introduction
In May 2015, in the middle of the night, three students in Berkeley were stopped by local police a few blocks from campus. They were...
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I weigh into the subject of biological warfare (BW) with trepidation. It’s not my field of study. It was in fact, my father’s topic which he...
In March 1999, a very important month in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as it marked the start of the first offensive war in its entire existence, the New York Times...
Erkenntnistheorie muss vor allem Sprachkritik sein.
(Epistemology must be above all language critique.)
— Bertolt Brecht
Je signale à ceux qui le peuvent, qu’ils ont le plus grand...
It is well known that Marx never systematized a political theory. But he nonetheless addressed substantive political issues in a coherent and consistent way. Only an understanding of the totality of Marx’s...
Abstract: Capitalists have a great deal of power over workers. However, because they are forced by market pressures to maximize profits, capitalists frequently must use their power to...
Introduction
Along with the rise of Political Islam, in recent years, has come a relative resurrection of Left...
Review Essay
Wolfgang Fritz Haug, "Marxistsein/Marxistinsein." Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus (Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism). Wolfgang Fritz Haug et al. (eds.)....
Book Reviews
Henry Giroux, America’s Addiction to Terrorism, with a foreword by Michael D. Yates (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016), 288 pp., $20.
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Megan Erickson, Class War: The Privatization of Childhood (New York: Verso, 2015), 230 pp., $16.95.
It’s a political truism that...
Cathy Bergin, “Bitter with the Past, but Sweet with the Dream”: Communism in the African American Imaginary: Representations of the Communist Party, 1940-1952 Leiden: Brill, 2015. i...
Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, and Paula Rabinowitz, eds., Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald (Ann Arbor, MI: Maize Books, 2015), 406 pp., $37....
Heidi Hoechst, Life in and Against the Odds: Debts of Freedom and the Speculative Roots of U.S. Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2015), 284 pp., $34.95...
Steve Early, Refinery Town: Big Oil, Big Money, and the Remaking of an American City. Foreword by Senator Bernie Sanders (Boston: Beacon Press, 2017), 222 pp., $27.95
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John Ehrenreich, Third Wave Capitalism: How Money, Power and the Pursuit of Self-Interest Have Imperiled the American Dream (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016), 196 pp., $29.95...
Michael Yates, The Great Inequality (New York: Routledge, 2016), 199 pp., $39.95
The twelve articles in this book address a topic made acute...
Bryan D. Palmer, Marxism and Historical Practice, Vol. I: Interpretive Essays on Class Formation and Class Struggle (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015), 526 pp., $206; ...
Chad Pearson, Reform or Repression: Organizing America’s Anti-Union Movement (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), 303 pp., $55.
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Shin Eun-jung, Verita$: Harvard’s Hidden History (Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2015), xvi + 234 pp., $18.95
About 25 years ago I was listening to...
Wang Hui (Saul Thomas ed.), China’s Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat and the Road to Equality (London and New York: Verso, 2016), 368 pp., $29.95.
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Hao Ren, Zhongjin Li, and Eli Friedman, eds., China on Strike: Narratives of Worker Resistance (Chicago: Haymarket Press, 2016), 224 pp., $19.95.
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Stephen Chambers, No God but Gain: The Untold Story of Cuban Slavery, the Monroe Doctrine & the Making of the United States (London: Verso, 2015), 256 pp., $26.95.
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Wolfgang Fritz Haug taught philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin until 2001. He is founder and editor of the journal Das Argument (since 1959) and of the 15-volume Historisch-kritisches Wörterbuch des...