Category: Book review
The Centrality of Reproduction and the Question of Labor Power
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Rebecca Carson’s Immanent Externalities, arguing that social reproduction politics demands a recentering of labor power.
Overshoot or Revolution?
Andrew Ahern reviews Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s Overshoot: What is the revolutionary alternative to the overshoot conjecture?
From Fossil Capital to Green Capital
Kai Bosworth reviews Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism, arguing that Hanieh’s analysis helpfully emphasizes the “capitalism” in “fossil capitalism.”
Review of A Short History of Trans Misogyny
Eric W. Maroney reviews Jules Gill-Peterson’s
Post-Soviet Peripheralization and the Ukraine War
Arman Spéth reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss.
Review of Jacob Heilbrunn’s America Last
Hank Kennedy critiques the imperialist consensus uniting the supposed antifascist coalition of neoconservatives and social democratic “reformers.”
Is Rent the Crisis? On the Tenant Union Movement, Old and New
Holden Taylor reviews Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.
Review of China in Global Capitalism
Ralf Ruckus reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism. How does China’s transition to capitalism affect anti-imperial strategies on the left?
Acting Jewishly During a Genocide
Charlotte Rosen considers Joshua Leifer’s new book, which appears more likely to presage the author’s turn to Jewish conservatism than to be embraced by anyone on the left.
Abstract Models, Concrete Frictions
Samuel Fisher probes the limits of Søren Mau’s recent book Mute Compulsion.