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New Politics Vol. XVIII No. 2, Whole Number 70

(New Politics Vol. XVIII No. 2, Whole Number 70)
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  • From The Editors
  • The U.S. Elections and Beyond
    • Biden Replaces Trump: A Malignant “Normalcy” Is Restored, Thomas Harrison
    • The 2020 Elections in The United States: A Socialist View from Afar, Rohini Hensman
    • Auditing U.S. Democracy: Classical Liberalism, Contemporary
      America, The Trump Years, and Beyond, Michael P. Mccabe and Riad Azar
  • Articles
    • Race, Crisis, and Resistance, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  • Changes in Global Capitalism
    • Workers of the World: Growth, Change, and Rebellion, Kim Moody
    • Western Imperialism and The Role of Sub-Imperialism In The Global South, Ana Garcia, Miguel Borba, and Patrick Bond
  • The Latin American Left
    • Latin America in the Time of Covid, Mike Gonzalez
    • Bolivia’s Elections: The Return of Democracy and An Uncertain Future, Bret Gustafson
    • In Puerto Rico, the 2019 Uprising Produces an Electoral Opening Toward the Left, José A. Laguarta Ramírez
  • Articles
    • Belarus: The People’s Fight Continues, Hanna Perekhoda
    • Unions, Democracy, and the Third Camp: Comparing Lessons from New Politics and Herman Benson, Lois Weiner
    • The Techniques of Justice: Orwell and Camus
      On A Hanging and The Guillotine, Kristian Williams
  • Community Schools: Progressive Reform or Privatization Trojan Horse?
    • Community Schools Will Help Unions and Education, Dylan Craig
    • Community Schools and The Dangers of Ed Tech Privatization, Jake Klyczek
    • Reply, Dylan Craig
  • Review Essay
    • A Leftist Perspective on China’s Environmental Destruction, Au Loong Yu, Review of Smith, China’s Engine Of Ecological Collapse
  • Film Review
    • The Politics of Helen Keller, Keith Rosenthal, Review of Gianvito, Her Socialist Smile
  • Book Reviews
    • Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Occlusion of Political Economy, Stephen Steinberg, Review of Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
    • Looking Back at Maoism and The Global Left, Kevin B. Anderson, Review of Lovell, Maoism: A Global History
    • China’s Workers Battle Apple and Foxconn, Nicki Lisa Cole, Review of Chan and Selden, Dying for an Iphone
    • Capitalism, Romanticism, and Nature, John Molyneux, Review of Robert Sayre & Michael Lowy, Romantic Anti-Capitalism and Nature
    • A Story from A Defeated Struggle, Alex de Jong, Review of Hillier, Losing Santhia. Life and Loss in the Struggle for Tamil Eelam

 

In this issue:

From The Editors

From the Editors

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As we are putting together this issue of New Politics, the United States is experiencing one of the greatest crises in its history. The country has lost more than 300,000 people to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to run rampant.

The U.S. Elections and Beyond

Biden Replaces Trump: A Malignant “Normalcy” Is Restored

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Biden’s win is the triumph not of democracy but of an oligarchic status quo.

The 2020 Elections in the United States: A Socialist View From Afar

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Many of us watching with envy from afar—“envy” because the destruction of democratic institutions has gone much further in our countries—have nothing but admiration for the way in which a would-be dictator has been peacefully overthrown.

Auditing U.S. Democracy


The Trump years were deeply undemocratic, but they did not mark an abandonment of a previously rich democratic politics

Opening Articles

Race, Crisis, and Resistance in the United States


Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discusses the significance of the struggle against racism and police violence.

Changes in Global Capitalism

Workers of the World: Growth, Change, and Rebellion

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An examination of the global working-class labor force in the twenty-first century.

Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South


An examination of the significance of BRICS countries as “sub-imperial” powers in the context of global capitalism and imperialism.

The Latin American Left

Latin America in the Time of COVID

By:

Gonzalez examines the development of Latin American political economy and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bolivia’s Elections

By:

Bolivia has given the world an impressive lesson in democracy, but reactionary sectors of the country are once again revealing their anti-democratic impulse.

In Puerto Rico, the 2019 Uprising Produces an Electoral Opening Toward the Left

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As the eyes of the world were fixated on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico produced a more satisfying and historic outcome for the left after its local election on Nov. 3, 2020.

Articles

Belarus: The People’s Fight Continues

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More than ever, the organized popular classes in Belarus must take the initiative in favor of political and social change in order to prevent the frustration of this genuinely popular movement by forces opposed to their interests, whether pro-Russian or pro-Western.

The Techniques of Justice

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Camus and Orwell both understood that the justification for state violence depends on describing it in such a way as to not convey too specific an image of the actual event.

Unions, Democracy, and the Third Camp

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An analysis of debates among labor leftists about how a commitment to socialism “from below” should inform union activity.

Community Schools: Progressive Reform Or Privatization Trojan Horse?

Community Schools: Progressive Reform Or Privatization Trojan Horse?


Community Schools Will Help Unions and Education

By:

Community schools are a way to address the challenges faced by low-income school districts; they also provide a unique opportunity to create bottom-up, democratically controlled school governance.

Community Schools and the Dangers of Ed Tech Privatization

By:

Bottom-up democracy through community schools sounds like a great idea, but there are many dangers from these ‘charter schools on steroids.”

Reply to Klyczek

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We shouldn’t assume that union and community efforts will inevitably succumb to corporate co-optation.

Review Essays

review

A Leftist Perspective on China’s Environmental Destruction

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As “part of China,” we Hong Kongers have seen how China’s economic growth has contributed to the degradation of its environment. To be fair, Hong Kong’s economic takeoff had already harmed its environment before China took over the city. We

Film Reviews

review

Helen Keller’s Socialism

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A documentary on Helen Keller that is both inspiring and edifying.

Reviews

review

The Occlusion of Political Economy

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Wilkerson’s adroit storytelling jumps off the page, but the glaring omission in her book is political economy.
review

China’s Workers Battle Apple and Foxconn

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Foxconn promises the world but delivers hell, as the authors lay bare.
review

Looking Back at Maoism and the Global Left

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As against nearly a century of debates over Stalinism, the international left has never come to terms with Maoism, especially its global impact.
review

Capitalism, Romanticism, and Nature

By:

Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy’s Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature is an extremely interesting book—enjoyable, informative, and intellectually stimulating.
review

A Story from a Defeated Struggle

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Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war.
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