Category: Book review
The New Anti-Dreyfusards
Benjamin Balthaser argues that Antony Lerman’s recent book on state antisemitism fails to develop a theory of antisemitism for the current moment.
Family Abolition
Colin Wilson on Sophie Lewis and the politics of family abolition
Revolution in Our Lifetime
Phil Kaplan reviews M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052–2072.
Class Struggle Against Growth
Natalie Suzelis reviews Schmelzer, Vetter, and Vasinjtan’s The Future of Degrowth and Matt Huber’s Climate Change as Class War.
What Was Chinese Trotskyism?
Taking Wang Fanxi’s analysis of Chinese Trotskyism as his point of departure, Promise Li argues that recovering dissident Marxisms is essential for the contemporary project of challenging bureaucratic cooptation of working-class struggles.
Critical Limits of the “New” History of Capitalism
James Parisot critically engages Jonathan Levy’s new history of American capitalism and interrogates the politics of the so-called “new history of capitalism”?
Soso’s Socialism
Thinking alongside Ronald Suny’s magnum opus, Bryan Gigantino writes about the politics of remembering Stalin in Georgia and the fate of that country after the fall of the USSR.
I Am Going to Die, But Algeria Will Be Independent
Jeffrey Webber reviews Joseph Andras’s Prix Goncourt-winning novel about a French communist who joins the Algerian resistance.
Know Your Enemy
Alex King reviews Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective’s White Skin, Black Fuel, calling the original study a systematic inquiry into the political ecology of the far right in the twenty-first century.
Mariátegui in Debate
Deni Alfaro Rubbo reviews Mike Gonzalez’s new book, In the Red Corner, about the political ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui.