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ResoluteReader reviews Gerald Horne’s The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

February 20, 2024

In the introduction to his latest book historian Gerald Horne makes clear the consequences of European settlement in the Americas:
"Though disease spread by these interlopers is often trotted out to explain the spectacular downturn in the fortunes of indigenous Americans, genocide – in virtually every meaning of the term, including volitional acts by invading settlers – is the proximate cause of this towering mountain of cadavers. Thus, even when enslaved Africans chose suicide, which they were often forced to do, it would be follow to suggest that enslavers were guiltless...."

Equal Time for Freethought talks to John Bellamy Foster about Trump (unfortunately still) in the White House

February 20, 2024

Recently, Barry Seidman, a host of Equal Time for Freethought (WBAI-99.5FM / Pacifica Radio in NYC), and John Bellamy Foster, editor of Monthly Review magazine and author of Trump in the White House: Tragedy and Farce, discussed the eponymous president, neo-fascist extraordinaire....

New! Culture as Politics: Selected Writings of Christopher Caudwell

February 20, 2024

Considered by many to be the most innovative British Marxist writer of the twentieth century, Christopher Caudwell was killed in the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29. Although already a published writer of aeronautic texts and crime fiction, he was practically unknown to the public until reviews appeared of Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry, which was published just after his death. A strikingly original study of poetry’s role, it explained in clear language how the organizing of emotion in society plays a part in social change and development. Culture as Politics introduces Caudwell’s work through his most accessible and relevant writing. Material is drawn from Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture, and his essay, “Heredity and Development.”

Socialist Review considers Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism

February 20, 2024

This fascinating book builds on the work of Marxists such as John Bellamy Foster to argue that Karl Marx’s thought is central to understanding that humanity’s destruction of the planet is due to the capitalist mode of production. It is a further blow against the perception that Marx was a naive Promethean—someone who believed that simply increasing production will solve all humanity’s ills and that therefore Marxism has nothing to say about ecological crisis....

“The militarized identity politics that was ‘whiteness’”: Marxism-Leninism Today on The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne introduces his book about 17th century English colonial aggression in the Caribbean and North America by mentioning a three-part ‘Apocalypse.’ He indicates that its ‘three horsemen’—slavery, capitalism, and white supremacy—were present and sowing grief at the formation of the United States. But the first two play only supporting roles in his narrative. They give rise to conflicts and crises that provoke white supremacy, his third protagonist, into existence….

Why Black Lives Don’t Matter: Gerald Horne & Paul Coates Radically Reinterpret Black History

February 20, 2024

Hear historian Gerald Horne, author, most recently, of The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism and Storming the Heavens, and Paul Coates, founder of the Black Classic Press, in conversation on the past and present of Black Lives in the United States
Baltimore, Wednesday, April 18
6:30pm (doors open at 6:00)
THE REAL NEWS NETWORK
231 Holliday Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

“A world worth fighting for”: Agrarian South reviews Creating an Ecological Society

February 20, 2024

At a time when capitalism is widely considered as the only and inevitable system, there are seldom critiques that go beyond understanding the inherent faults of the capitalist system to establishing the possibility of an alternative. This book is the latest contribution by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams in their lifelong commitment not only to elucidate the ecological crises entailed in capitalism, but to provide the basis and the possibilities for an alternate system: eco-socialism....

Gerald Horne on WBAI’s Morning Show, talks about his new book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism

February 20, 2024

Gerald Horne, author of well over thirty books on African American history, talks with Mimi Rosenberg of radio station WBAI on “The WBAI Morning Show.” Horne focuses on his forthcoming book, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, and Capitalism in Seventeenth-Century North America and the Caribbean, due out in a few weeks.

PopMatters talks to Eric Holt-Giménez about A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism

February 20, 2024

When people talk about the food system being ‘broken,’ Eric Holt-Gimenez is quick to correct them. ¶ There’s nothing broken about the food system, says the executive director of Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy. Over-production, hunger, wastage, slavery — it’s working exactly the way a capitalist food system should work. ¶ It’s capitalism that’s the problem….

“Must-Read for understanding Arab Spring”: Socialism & Democracy on The Reawakening of the Arab World

February 20, 2024

Samir Amin is best known for his 1989 book, Eurocentrism, a seminal entry in critical theory on the Middle East which remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the political and economic problems facing the region today. Amin’s present book places the Arab Spring into the theoretical framework of Eurocentrism. It insightfully argues that the uprisings of 2011 fit into the long struggle for emancipation in the Arab Middle East that goes back a century...