Gerald Horne on Democracy Now!: “You Can’t Disconnect History of the 2nd Amendment from the History of White Supremacy”
February 20, 2024
Gerald Horne
Monthly Review Press
New! Samir Amin’s Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism
February 20, 2024
Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world’s first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union also produced a movement away from capitalism—a long transition that continues today. In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the possible future of Russia—and, by extension, the future of socialism itself.
Big Farms Make Big Flu an “important polemic,” says ResoluteReader
February 20, 2024
The media is a fickle beast, so coverage of potential epidemics of diseases veers between the apocalyptic to nonexistence. As an outbreak occurs we hear about the potential terrifying consequences of the disease, combined with graphic details of the symptoms and frequently pictures of large numbers of dead animals. Rob Wallace‘s new book is an important polemic that argues that we, as a society, should be a lot more concerned about the potential for disease to decimate the human population
Henry Giroux, via Truthout: “Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times”
February 20, 2024
Americans live in a historical moment that annihilates thought. Ignorance now provides a sense of community; the brain has migrated to the dark pit of the spectacle; the only discourse that matters is about business; poverty is now viewed as a technical problem; thought chases after an emotion that can obliterate it. The presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee, Donald Trump, declares he likes "the uneducated"—implying that it is better that they stay ignorant than be critically engaged agents—and boasts that he doesn't read books. Fox News offers no apologies for suggesting that thinking is an act of stupidity....
C-SPAN: Gerald Horne on Confronting Black Jacobins & Paul Robeson
February 20, 2024
April 15, Baltimore, at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse: Gerald Horne discusses his latest two books: Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary and Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic.
SPOILER: Christopher Wright “really likes” Facing the Anthropocene
February 20, 2024
May 13, Sydney, Australia: Christopher Wright, Professor of Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School, spoke at the international launch of Ian Angus‘s book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil... READ MORE
Left Forum this Weekend: 400 Panels, 1200 Speakers … and YOU!
February 20, 2024
Come to the 2016 Left Forum!
Friday, May 20 – Sunday, May 22
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 W 59th St., NYC 10019
Drop by the Monthly Review book tables!
Pick up discounts on new books, classics, the Monthly Review magazine, the Socialist Register, and Merlin Press books!
The Life and Times of Karl Marx, in the words of Ronnie Kasrils
February 20, 2024
Ronnie Kasrils, activist, intellectual, and author of The Unlikely Secret Agent, recently wrote a paper, picked up by South Africa’s Daily Maverick, in which Kasrils discusses Karl Marx and what... READ MORE
Steve Early via Counterpunch: “Toxic Entanglements: Big Oil’s Democratic Primary Favorite in California”
February 20, 2024
Steve Early, author of Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home and Save Our Unions: Dispatches from A Movement in Distress, writes about big oil... READ MORE
The Socialist Imperative reviewed in Counterfire
February 20, 2024
The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now By Michael A. Lebowitz 224 pp, $22 pbk, 9781583675465 Reviewed by Kit Klarenberg “The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now is Michael Lebowitz’s... READ MORE