Category: Book review
A Review of Nancy Holmstrom’s “From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View”
Cinzia Arruzza reviews Nanvy Holmstrom’s rigorous philosophical development of Marx’s theories in From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View.
Reading Third Camp Socialism in the Time of Trump and Xi
David Camfield reviews Paul Heidemann and Kent Worcester’s newly edited Phyllis and Julius Jacobson reader.
After the Last Word
Ryan Breeden reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx’s Revolutionary Roads,” arguing that the book is a valuable step in an ongoing march of theoretical contestation.
Review of Adam Turl’s Gothic Capitalism
Laura Fair-Schulz reviews Adam Turl’s Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth.
The Hopes of Disalienation
Isadora Seconi and Sean K. Isaacs review Alan Sears’s Eros and Alienation, looking at the book’s utopian implications for ecosocialism and Marxist theory.
The Price of Freedom
Jordan Daniels reviews Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
The Anti-Zionist Tradition of the US Jewish Left
Shane Burley’s review of Ben Balthaser’s Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left draws out the conditions of Jewish diasporic radicalism in the US, showing the roots of a now resurgent Jewish anti-Zionism.
How Settler Colonies Fail
Richard Solomon reviews Lauchlan McNamee’s Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop, arguing that it’s analysis of the strategic calculus of settler colonialism gives inadequate weight to the actions of indigenes.
The Continuing Relevance of Marx’s Capital
Charles Post reviews Sungur Savran and E. Ahmet Tonak, In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism.
Chuck Schumer in America—A Warning
Dan Berger reviews Chuck Schumer’s very bad, no good, awful book.