Category: Review
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“Actually existing socialism” and the communist transition
David Camfield’s Red Flags: A Reckoning with Communism for the Future of the Left is a concise and insightful intervention into the renewed debates on the legacy of “actually existing socialism.”
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Mutual ruin? Or working-class revolution?
Sam Friedman reviews Volodymyr Ishchenko’s Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War.
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An internationalist looks back
Alex de Jong reviews the Filipino activist-scholar Walden Bello’s new memoir, Global Battlefields: My Close Encounters with Dictatorship, Capital, Empire, and Love. Chronicling Bello’s political development, Global Battlefields provides us with an informative and entertaining portrait of a committed internationalist.
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Which Marx? On Colonialism, Uneven Development, and Gender
Sean K. Isaacs reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism
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Rosa Luxemburg’s war against cynicism
Sean Larson reviews the newest volume in The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg.
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A review of Paul Foot: A Life in Politics
Bill Roberts reviews the new biography Paul Foot: A Life in Politics.
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A review of China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry
Ben Rosenfield reviews Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith’s China in Global Capitalism.
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Nuclear Devastation
David Friedman reviews Annie Jacobsen’s latest book, Nuclear War: A Scenario (2024).
