Assessing the global slump
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There is no definitive Marxist assessment of the current economic crisis or of the period leading up to it, but there is a vibrant debate among Marxists trying to grapple with the underlying causes of
Books
Abolish money without class struggle?
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Janet Burstall reviews Life without money: building fair and sustainable communities, edited by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman.
Educating for capitalism's needs
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In School Wars Melissa Benn lays out in details the increasing privatisation of Britain’s schools, the scale of an impending disaster.
The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui
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There is a rich and authentic tendency of Latin American Marxism, in which José Carlos Mariátegui is probably the brightest star. His contribution during the 1920s has rightly earned him the epitaph of Latin America’s Gramsci.
Cuba as a class society
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Pablo Velasco and Sacha Ismail review Cuba since the revolution of 1959: A Critical Assessment, by Sam Farber.
The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui
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Latin America appears to have long been in the thrall of ‘barbaric’ Marxism: the stale Stalinism of the official Communist Parties, the populist Stalinism of the Castro current, the national reformism
Sex, violence and Stieg Larsson
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The first volume of Stieg Larsson’s thriller trilogy was originally titled Men Who Hate Women; in English translation, it was renamed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
No Quislings on the left
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I live in a part of London where streets of identical Victorian houses are sporadically punctuated by uglier buildings of visibly 1940s or 1950s design. The architectural incongruity stems from the extensive pounding the area took from the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
Is Marxism Eurocentric?
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A common charge heard against Marxism in recent decades is that it is a Eurocentric theory, one with arguably colonial assumptions and underpinned by Western values.
Fight the power...with counterpower?
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Tim Gee claims to have “a single idea which explains why social movements succeed or fail”. Two hundred pages later I am not convinced.