Category: Book review
Contest the Space of Politics
Kolya Ludwig reflects on Abolish Rent, contending that its undertheorized concept of hegemony leads it to neglect important potential cross class alliances.
Marx’s Republican Communism
Søren Mau reviews Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx, arguing that Leipold’s masterful contextualization of Marx in the republican tradition could be enriched by a deeper engagement with the labor theory of value.
The Broken Clock
Joshua Nicholas Pineda reviews Domenico Losurdo’s Western Marxism.
Serving Somebody
Cutting through A Complete Unknown’s apolitical individualist myth of Bob Dylan, Jordy Cummings puts Dylan back in the sixties to find the left’s Dylan.
Queer Politics and Class War
Dani Joslyn critically reviews Joanna Wuest’s recent book on queer politics, which reproduces the social democratic opposition between social movements to union politics.
Tenant Organizing is Producing and Defending Territory
Expanding on the notion that transforming social relationships transforms space, Zara Cadoux examines Abolish Rent as both an organizing tool and a work of public geography.
From Policy as Technocratic Exercise to “Way Station of Tenant Power”
Reflecting on Abolish Rent, Ben Teresa argues that policymaking must become a “way stations of tenant power” rather than a technocratic adjustment to market realities.
Nationalism and Capitalism’s Ever-Spiraling Crisis
Through the lens of nationalism, Jacob Wilson evaluates Wolfgang Streeck and Jamie Merchant’s respective responses to capitalist crisis. Is left anticapitalist nationalism possible?
Convivir, a Synonym for Commune?
Julian Francis Park examines Rosenthal and Vilchis’s Abolish Rentand Ross’s The Commune Form, arguing that both books anticipate the abolition of the distinction between rural and urban—that is, as Julian argues, they anticipate communism.
Lula in Historical and Political Context
Alice Taylor reviews Fernando Morais’s Lula: A Biography, arguing that Morais’s focus on Lula ignores the political context and shifting role of Lulismo.