Issue number: 79
Judy Cox reviews David Camfield’s book Red Flags, a critical examination of authoritarianism in the Actually Existing Socialist societies.
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Sarah Jaffe’s book From the Ashes, a reflection on grief, care and healing in struggles against capitalism.
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.
Frieda Afary recommends Nancy Holmstrom’s From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View, an edited collection of her philosophical essays.
Julius Jacobson was in his early thirties when he penned “Capitalism’s Threat to Democracy” for the May 4, 1953, issue of Labor Action, a publication ofthe Workers Party, founded in 1940 as a result of a split within the Socialist
In this 1953 article, Julius Falk (Jacobson) analyzes contradictions between capitalism and democracy, which lead to repression of civil liberties.
Paul Messersmith-Glavin positively reviews Kohei Saito’s work on degrowth communism, as a political project that will expand the realm of freedom.
Rezgar Akrawi argues that artificial intelligence, if freed from capitalist control and developed democratically, can serve emancipatory purposes.
Brian Tokar argues against dystopian narratives on climate change that promote hopelessness, and calls for an approach focused on building mutual aid networks.
Sam Friedman argues that the Trump regime’s attacks on science is rooted in the capitalist class interest, which is fundamentally threatened by scientific knowledge of climate change.
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.
In this 1916 essay, Ukrainian Marxist Lev Yurkevych develops a vision for the liberation of Ukraine, against multiple imperialist powers.
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.
In an interview, Gilbert Achcar analyzes the grim state of affairs in the Middle East, in the age of neofascism.
Christopher Ford introduces the political thoughts and activities of Lev Yurkevych, a prominent Ukrainian Marxist in the early 20th century.
Sam Farber argues that arbitariness is a key feature of authoritarianism, and in particular of the Trump regime.
ICE is not just a tool of reactionary immigration policies, but part of a more general instrument of political repression.
We are being pushed and we are sliding toward an authoritarian state. We now live in a country where many democratic institutions, including the courts, have been seriously weakened, civil society organizations have been deeply compromised, and our civil liberties
