Category: Intellectual History
The rave reception for Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple’s avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is
Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (or Pipers) is a neo-Stalinist hatchet job targeting the German intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who associated with the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research before, during, and in some cases after
Brian Jones reviews Brian Kwoba’s biography of Hubert Harrison, a radical and socialist Black intellectual in early twentieth-century Harlem.
Brian Ward recommends Brian Jones’ book Black History Is for Everyone, an essential resource on Black history as a vital part of collective human story for all.
Most of the convicts were transported for petty property crimes, but a significant minority of them were political dissidents and industrial activists.
Lipstadt is a died-in-the-wool Zionist and that’s completely colored and warped her thinking.
Judy Cox reviews David Camfield’s book Red Flags, a critical examination of authoritarianism in the Actually Existing Socialist societies.
Stephen Shalom critically reviews Walden Bello’s autobiography Global Battlefields, which covers Bello’s political and intellectual contributions in the Philippines over the past fifty years.
Peter Drucker positively reviews Alan Sears’ latest book Eros and Alienation, a theoretical contribution to queer Marxism.
In an interview, philosopher Vanessa Wills discusses her latest book Marx’s Ethical Vision, on his skepticism toward morality and embrace of human flourishing.
Utilizing the latest available sources, Kevin Anderson explores the late Marx’s theory on the role of non-capitalist agrarian communal villages in sparking a social revolution.
Javier Sethness critiques authoritarian tendencies in Marxism, and calls for a politics based on anarcho-populism such as the Russian narodniks.
Alan Wald reviews Andrew Hartman’s latest book Karl Marx in America, a comprehensive history of Marx’s influence in the United States from his times to the present.
An interview with one of the editors of a new collection of writings from two key figures in the history of Third Camp Socialism
Nedjib Sidi Moussa analyzes contrasting reception of Richard Wright’s work in the French left, including criticism among the Communists and support among the Socialists.
Lilia D. Monzó and Cristal B. Flores review the latest edition of Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme and discuss its significance for today.
Michael Löwy argues that Marx’s thought has deep ecological significance, such as his theory of the “realm of freedom”.
Dan Davison argues that socialists should engage in elections as a means for agitation and propaganda, following Lenin and Luxemburg.
John Marot critically reviews a collection of essays written by Communist dissidents in 1920-22 in opposition to the New Economic Policy, translated by Simon Pirani.
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