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February 2004, Volume 55 — Number 9 c o n t
e n t s This year marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Ralph Miliband, who was one of the leading Marxist political theorists of the second half of the 20th century. His works, Parliamentary Socialism (1961), The State in Capitalist Society (1969), and Marxism and Politics (1977) are classics of socialist political analysis. This year is also the 40th anniversary of the Socialist Register, an annual journal that Miliband cofounded and coedited for 30 years. | more|. REVIEW
OF THE MONTH The number of people living a precarious existence has been increasing in many countries of the world, with hunger all too widespread. There are approximately 6 billion people in the world, with about half living in cities and half in rural areas. Between the poor living in cities and those in rural areas, a vast number of the world's people live under very harsh conditions. It is estimated that that about half of the world's population lives on less than two dollars per day, with most of those either chronically malnourished or continually concerned with where their next meal will come from. Many have no access to clean water (1 billion), electricity (2 billion), or sanitation (2.5 billion). Rice Imperialism:
The Agribusiness Threat to Third World Rice Production Food is an essential human need. All cultures involved in settled agriculture have produced food and food production is basic to all culture. The seed used in agricultural cultivation is the product of thousands of years of cultural development. Most of this development of food crops over the millennia has occurred in regions that are now in the periphery of the capitalist world economy. In recent years, however, agribusiness corporations located in the rich nations of the core have attempted to patent various forms of food crops, such as basic grains, and then to monopolize these patented grain varieties, creating dependence on seeds of the agribusiness corporations. When such practices involve, as in recent years, a crop such as rice on which much of the world's population depends for subsistence, the implications are enormous and potentially disastrous for the world's poor. U.S. Imperial
Strategy in the Middle East U.S. Middle Eastern strategy for the decade 1991-2000 had run up against its limits on both of its main fronts: the Israeli-Palestinian front, and the Arab-Persian Gulf. On the Israeli-Palestinian front, it had become clear that the "peace process" had run aground. Only a major concession by one of the two sides could set it afloat again, given that their divergences concerned issues that were fundamental for both. From Ehud Barak's point of view, which Clinton supported, the Palestinian leadership had to accept the "generous offer" that Barak had made at Camp David. In the absence of any broad consensus on the Israeli or Palestinian side, Barak's offer corresponded to a version of a "settlement" that Washington considered satisfactory. Poverty and
Inequality in the Global Economy Capitalism is hundreds of years old and today dominates nearly every part of the globe. Its champions claim that it is the greatest engine of production growth the world has ever seen. They also argue that it is unique in its ability to raise the standard of living of every person on earth. Because of capitalism, we are all "slouching toward utopia,"—the phrase coined by University of California at Berkeley economist J. Bradford DeLong—slowly but surely heading toward a world in which everyone will have achieved a U.S.-style middle-class life. BOOK
REVIEWS A review of Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor edited by Tara Herivel and Paul Wright. The Tragedy of U.S. Empire A review of Another Century of War? by Gabriel Kolko. Manufacturing the
Love of Possession A review of The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life by Michael Dawson. |
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