“Facing the Anthropocene,” in one’s hometown
February 20, 2024
"He is currently working on another book focusing on the underlying drivers that cause human society to conflict with nature and create rifts in the metabolic cycles of the planet."
Monthly Review Press
“The Return of Nature,” an analysis which captures Marx’s social milieu (Counterfire)
February 20, 2024
"This is a complex array of themes to pursue, particularly given that the scientific and social dimensions of sexual politics in the lives of many of these figures is highly relevant as well. Bellamy Foster rightly emphasises the importance of such issues within the overall picture, as a genuinely dialectical understanding of society and nature could hardly avoid confronting the alienated character of gender relations in class societies...."
Poet Roger Reeves, on “Sensing Injustice:” Not a revolution, but a way of knowing why it must come
February 20, 2024
In this moment of what a philologist or scholar of poetry might call correctio, Michael performs the self-reflexive, intertextual move of being in conversation with his own text as a form of revision....
Watch: What went on behind the walls of the Hanoi Hilton?
February 20, 2024
Recall "The Hanoi Hilton,” where captured U.S. soldiers were held during the war in Vietnam? If you do recall, no doubt, you're recalling the Official Story. So what really happened? Watch!
“Tell the Bosses We’re Coming:” The Trap of Received Wisdom + Unjust Labor Laws (Counterfire)
February 20, 2024
"Richman argues against the usual approach of organisers to ignore the fortunes of ‘at will’ workers because their suffering presents workers with an incentive to join the union and pay their subs..."
Listen: Horne on our Founding Fathers, the “Grand Real Estate Speculators” (Lay Led Unions)
February 20, 2024
"...It's no accident, as historians like to say, that the Founding Father George Washington was a grand real estate speculator, just like the 45th U.S. President..."
Author Jayati Ghosh on Vaccine Apartheid (Watch: Democracy Now!)
February 20, 2024
"...this is the problem that has actually plagued the entire attitude to vaccine development and production in this pandemic. A few companies have got the rights, and they are holding onto those rights, and they are only producing themselves. They must share this knowledge, and they must allow other producers, because that’s the only way we’re going to confront the crisis..."
Jennifer Laurin, on the guidance offered in “Sensing Injustice”
February 20, 2024
"Here are a few pieces of advice I got from Michael, that I would have liked to have had earlier in my career: Make sure your case tells a story – a story of your client and a story of the law...Be wary of judicial and prosecutorial ego – but know that there are people with both power and conscience...Trust the capacity of jurors to learn and dispense justice...Decide what you want and ask for it...Don’t mistake lawyering for movement work – but don’t forget about the movement either...Believe that one case at a time can, over time, make a difference...Bring others along on your journey – and remember their contributions to it with graciousness and gratitude....."
Leo Panitch’s last Socialist Register: “Beyond Digital Capitalism” (Marx and Philosophy Review of Books)
February 20, 2024
"....activists ought to be clear-eyed about the limitations of regulatory interventions. While there is certainly utility in digital media and tech reform, antitrust legislation and similar policy courses are insufficient for large-scale social transformations that characterize Marxist aspirations..."
“The Return of Nature” is a Resource for Scientific Radicals (Science for the People)
February 20, 2024
The Return of Nature is a genealogy of ecological thinking. The word ‘ecology’ was not in common usage until the twentieth century, leading many to consider ecological thinking a fairly recent development. However, in this impressive volume, John Bellamy Foster convincingly identifies a materialist ecological sensibility within works dating back a century prior to ecology’s popularization..."