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  • | Zhou Xun and Sander L Gilman I Know Who Caused COVID 19 Pandemics and Xenophobia | MR Online

    Review: ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on April 24, 2023 by David C. Perlman (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2023)

    A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.

  • | United States of War A Global History of Americas Endless Conflicts from Columbus to the Islamic State | MR Online

    David Vine- “United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on March 20, 2023 by Tabitha Spence (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Mar 28, 2023)

    With World War III looming on the horizon as a very real possibility, now is a more critical time than ever to understand the history and motives of the United States, the world’s greatest hegemon.

  • | The Untold Story of Capitalism Primitive Accumulation and the Anti Slavery Revolution by Enrique S Rivera reviewed by Joel Wendland Liu | MR Online

    Review: Enrique S Rivera – “The Untold Story of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on March 10, 2023 by Joel Wendland-Liu (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2023)

    Every May 10th marks Afro-Venezuelan Day and commemorates the 1795 Coro Rebellion. The May 1795 revolutionary events are the centerpiece of Enrique S. Rivera’s The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution.

  • | Green Marx | MR Online

    Kohei Saito: ‘Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on February 27, 2023 by Tim Christiaens (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Mar 03, 2023)

    In 2017, Japanese Marx scholar Kohei Saito published ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize the following year.

  • | Daniel Nyberg Christopher Wright and Vanessa Bowden Organising Responses to Climate Change The Politics of Mitigation Adaptation and Suffering | MR Online

    Review of “Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on February 19, 2023 by Thomas Klikauer (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Feb 22, 2023)

    Much has been written about climate change or, to use a more truthful term, global warming. But not much has been written about “Organising Responses to Climate Change,” which is the title of Daniel Nyberg, Christopher Wright and Vanessa Bowden’s new book.

  • | Karl Marx | MR Online

    Review of “Critique of the Gotha Program,” by Karl Marx

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on February 10, 2023 by David Black (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Feb 13, 2023)

    This new edition of Marx’s 1875 ‘Critique of the Gotha Program’ comes with a few surprises in translation for Marxists who have previously interpreted it as justification for the continuation of wage-labour and commodity production, under the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ in the ‘first phase’ of socialism/communism.

  • | The Conformist Rebellion Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left | MR Online

    “The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on January 30, 2023 by Philipp Nolz (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jan 31, 2023)

    Already a century ago, political thinkers and philosophers were confronted with an apparent paradox: the failure of revolution.

  • | Capitalism as Civilisation A History of International Law | MR Online

    ‘Capitalism as Civilisation: A History of International Law’ review

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on December 16, 2022 by Nate Holdren (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Dec 18, 2022)

    Readers of the first volume of Capital sometimes mistakenly conceptualize capitalism in terms of a relationship between workers and a single capitalist. In doing so they fail to notice that for Marx capitalist society is not one big capitalist enterprise.

  • | Ian H Angus Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism Crisis Body World | MR Online

    Ian H Angus – “Groundwork of Phenomenological Marxism: Crisis, Body, World”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on December 12, 2022 by Lennet Daigle (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Dec 13, 2022)

    There is much more here than can be covered in a brief review, including interesting discussions of language, laughter, neo-mercantile capitalism, digital information and abstract nature, a correlate to abstract labor.

  • | Ian Menter Raymond Williams and Education History Culture Democracy | MR Online

    Ian Menter Raymond Williams and Education: History, Culture, Democracy

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 21, 2022 (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 27, 2022)

    In the 1950s and early 1960s, a group of remarkably talented left-wing intellectuals (almost all men) emerged in Britain, focusing both upon the radical interpretation and development of the core disciplines of the humanities: literature and history, and to a lesser extent, politics and philosophy; and also upon socialist political activism.

  • | Neil Faulkner Alienation Spectacle and Revolution A Critical Marxist Essay | MR Online

    Neil Faulkner – ‘Alienation, Spectacle, and Revolution: A Critical Marxist Essay’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 19, 2022 by Nick Malherbe (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 22, 2022)

    The tradition of concise introductions to Marxist theory is a long one, stretching back perhaps to Engels’s Anti-Dühring. Alienation, Spectacle and Revolution enters stridently into this tradition with an acerbic, tremendously illuminating, and urgent style.

  • | Corine Pelluchon Das Zeitalter des Lebendigen Eine neue Philosophie der Aufklärung | MR Online

    Corine Pelluchon, “Das Zeitalter des Lebendigen. Eine neue Philosophie der Aufklärung” [“The Age of the Living. A new philosophy of the Enlightenment”]

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on May 6, 2022 by Lukas Meisner (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted May 07, 2022)

    Lucidly argued and touching in its appeal, Corine Pelluchon’s latest book ‘Les Lumières à l’âge du vivant’ will be a theoretical source both for ‘green’ and ‘red’ movements alike.

  • | Andreas Malm How to Blow Up a Pipeline Learning to Fight in a World on Fire | MR Online

    Andreas Malm ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on March 9, 2022 by John Rapko (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Mar 10, 2022)

    Despite its title, Andreas Malm’s recent book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ contains no concrete instructions on how to accomplish that particular deed.

  • | Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin The Dialectical Biologist | MR Online

    Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin: ‘The Dialectical Biologist’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on February 2, 2022 by Martina Valković (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Feb 06, 2022)

    One reason why this review came to be decades after said book’s publication involves the loss of Richard Lewontin, the great American geneticist and evolutionary biologist, who passed away last July at his home in Cambridge at the age of 92.

  • | Michael Löwy Revolutions | MR Online

    Michael Löwy: ‘Revolutions’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on January 13, 2022 by Aidan Ratchford (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2022)

    ‘Revolutions’ is a major contribution to our understanding of the principal social movements which shape our modern world.

  • | Jason E Smith Smart Machines and Service Work Automation in an Age of Stagnation Reaktion Books London 2020 160 pp £1495 hb ISBN 9781789143188 | MR Online

    Jason E Smith: ‘Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on January 13, 2022 by Manu V Mathew (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2022)

    Smith begins with Friedrich Pollock’s definition of automation as a ‘technique of industrial production [in which] the machines are “controlled” by machines’, and shows that this trend of automation, while increasing labor productivity in the industrial and manufacturing sector, is also the reason for a lack of automation in the service sector.

  • | Karl Radek | MR Online

    ‘Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives’ – a review

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on November 26, 2021 (more by Marx & Philosophy)  |

    Sometimes, the greatest theoretical works come to us in the form of lectures rather than systemic books. This is the case with Karl Radek, whose lectures on the Chinese Revolution have recently been published by the Historical Materialism book series.

  • | Practicing the Good Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism | MR Online

    Review of Keti Chukhrov – ‘Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on August 5, 2021 by Isabel Jacobs (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Aug 07, 2021)

    As the title reveals, Chukhrov is particularly interested in two aspects of Soviet socialism: desire and boredom. For a libidinally conditioned capitalist subject, socialism as a non-libidinal economy appears boring and unsexy.

  • | Alfred Sohn Rethel Intellectual and Manual Labour A Critique of Epistemology | MR Online

    Alfred Sohn-Rethel – ‘Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology‘

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 18, 2021 by Fabian Van Onzen (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 29, 2021)

    Upon reading Sohn-Rethel it becomes clear that his work is important for contemporary debates on ecology, the Marxist critique of science and debates on post-revolutionary societies such as the former Soviet Union.

  • | Dana Mills Rosa Luxemburg | MR Online

    ‘Rosa Luxemburg’ by Dana Mills reviewed by William Smaldone

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 7, 2021 by William Smaldone (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    More than 100 years after her murder by counterrevolutionary soldiers during the German Revolution of 1918-1919, Rosa Luxemburg continues to demand attention.

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