New Politics Vol. XVIII No. 1, Whole Number 69

(New Politics, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Whole Number 69)
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  • From The Editors
  • The Movement for Black Lives Is Different This Time, Haley Pessin
  • Special Section: The Covid Crisis
    • Pandemic, Depression, and Authoritarianism, Dan La Botz and Sherry Baron
    • Coronavirus and the World Economy, Alejandro Reuss
    • A Global View of Coronavirus, Medical Policy, and Research, Gérard Chaouat
  • Symposium: Organizing After Bernie — Activists Respond
    • Moving On from Bernie, Taheerah Barney
    • The Struggle for Power Continues, Bill Fletcher Jr.
    • After Bernie, DSA Will Be Essential, Mindy Isser
    • We’re Not Just Along for The Ride, Natalia Tylim
    • S. Imperialism and Africa’s ‘Perfect Storm’, Lee Wengraf
  • Symposium: Anti-Imperialism and the Rise of Authoritarianism, “Left” and Right
    • From the Russian Revolution to Russia Today, Rohini Hensman
    • Authoritarianism and Resistance in India, Samantha Agarwal
    • China and the United States: A New Cold War, Ashley Smith And Kevin Lin
    • “Campism” and the “New” (Anti-) Imperialisms, Bryant William Sculos
  • Review Essays
    • Robbers, Takers and Givers: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Racism Exposed, Ann Ferguson, Review of Bhattacharya, Ed., Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
    • Walking the Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide, Frederick B. Mills, Review of Ellner, Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings
  • Music Review
    • Painting The Passports Brown: Listening to Dylan During Covid-19, Jordy Cummings
  • Book Reviews
    • Theory In Revolutionary Times, Rafael Khachaturian, Review of Albo, Panitch, And Zuege, Eds., Class, Party, Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader
    • The Farm Equipment Workers, James Young, Review of Gilpin, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
    • Analyzing the Communist Manifesto, Phil Gasper, Review of Draper, The Adventures of the Communist Manifesto
    • Dark Satanic Mills, Eric Blair, Review of Freeman, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
  • Exchange
    • Surrogacy, Exploitation, and Commodification, Sara Lee, Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith

In this issue:

From The Editors

From the Editors

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Even though it is only half over, 2020 has already proved to be one of the most tumultuous—and inspiring—years in recent political history. It has been a year of dramatic swings backwards and forwards, with hope . . .

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Opening Articles

The Movement for Black Lives Is Different This Time

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An assessment of the ongoing protests and developing movement following the murder of George Floyd.

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The COVID Crisis

Pandemic, Depression, and Authoritarianism

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The United States confronts an uncertain future in the face of an unprecedented situation.

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Coronavirus and the World Economy

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The coronavirus pandemic has both detonated a global economic crisis and exacerbated a preexisting crisis, economic and political, of the capitalist world economy.

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A Global View of Coronavirus, Medical Policy, and Research

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In 2019, a new virus of the coronavirus family emerged in Wuhan, China, and the disease that was caused by this virus was named COVID-19 to indicate both the virus associated with it and the year . . .

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Organizing After Bernie -- Activists Respond

Organizing After Bernie — Activists Respond

THE HISTORIC SANDERS CAMPAIGN has come to a close, and the strength of social movements will be critical after November, whether to build the left in the face of a Democratic president carrying out the party’s . . .

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Moving on from Bernie

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The effort of the media, the DNC, and the Dem establishment to bring Bernie’s campaign to a grinding halt highlights the limits of electoral politics.

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The Struggle for Power Continues

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Takeaways from the Sanders campaign and recommendations on a possible road forward.

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After Bernie, DSA Will Be Essential

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Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president has changed politics as we know it.

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We’re Not Just Along for the Ride

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How socialists in organizations outside of the Sanders campaign operate and what this situation demands of us.

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Articles

U.S. Imperialism and Africa’s “Perfect Storm”

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Public health crisis, financial crash, and the new scramble for Africa.

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Anti-Imperialism and the Rise of Authoritarianism, “Left” and Right

Anti-Imperialism and the Rise of Authoritarianism, “Left” and Right

WITH MILITARISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM ON THE RISE in numerous global and regional powers, there is a crucial need for updating and strengthening a politics of socialist anti-imperialism. Historically, many on the left felt the need to . . .

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From the Russian Revolution to Russia Today

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The relationship between Russia and the left from 1917.

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Authoritarianism and Resistance in India

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Samantha Agarwal discusses the foundations of BJP rule in India and prospects for resistance.

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China and the United States: A New Cold War

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The United States and China are locked in a spiraling conflict over everything from the pandemic to trade, investment, high tech, geopolitics, and military hegemony in Asia.

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“Campism” and the “New” (Anti-) Imperialisms

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An exploration of the meaning and implications of “campism.”

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Review Essays

Robbers, Takers, and Givers

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A review essay of Tithi Bhattacharya’s collection “Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression”

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Walking the Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide

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A review essay on Steve Ellner’s collection on the Latin American turn to the left.

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Music Review

Painting the Passports Brown

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A review of Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul.”

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Reviews

Theory in Revolutionary Times

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A review of a collection of articles from the early years of The Socialist Register.

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The Farm Equipment Workers

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A review of Toni Gilpin’s history of labor struggles in the American heartland.

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Analyzing the Communist Manifesto

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The Communist Manifesto never seems to go out of style for very long.

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Dark Satanic Mills

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A review of Josh Freeman’s history of factories.

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Exchange

Surrogacy, Exploitation, and Commodification

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Sara Lee and Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith debate the position that the left should take on surrogacy, arrangements where a woman agrees to bear a child for others.

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