Capitalist Crisis
U.S. MARXIST-HUMANISTS NOVEMBER 2010
FROM U.S. MARXIST-HUMANISTS
(http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/)
NOVEMBER 2010
NEW ARTICLES AND FEATURES:
1. Kevin Anderson, author of Marx at the Margins,
“French, European Strikes Reveal Mass Discontent… and Its Limits”
The French and European-wide strikes reveal mass discontent, but also illustrate the limitations facing today’s labor and leftist movements.
2. Paresh Chattopadhyay, author of The Marxian Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience,
“Marx Made to Serve Party-State”
[A review of On Socialism: Selections from Writings of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, V. I. Lenin, J .V. Stalin, Mao Zedong, edited by Irfan Habib, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2009]
In critiquing the assumptions of the Indian Marxist historian Irfan Habib’s statist and ultimately market-oriented concept of socialism, Paresh Chattopadhyay elaborates Marx’s concept of socialism as pointing toward a society free of all forms of domination, whether of capital or the state.
http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/articles/marx-made-to-serve-party-state-by-paresh-chattopadhyay/
3. Sandra Rein, author of Reading Dunayevskaya (forthcoming)
“Reading Luxemburg Through Dunayevskaya for Today, Theory as Practice”
It is argued that today’s crisis is best confronted through a return to Rosa Luxemburg’s key contributions to Marxist philosophy viewed through the Marxist Humanist lens of Raya Dunayevskaya, with a particular emphasis on the relationship of theory to practice. This chapter originally appeared in Gender Activism: Rosa Luxemburg Annual Seminar, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, South Africa, 2008
4. Dyne Suh, student activist,
“October 7 Day of Action at University of California”
Protests at University of California, Santa Barbara over soaring costs of an education were part of an international day of action by students around the world.
5. Ba Karang, Africa-Links,
“Rwanda – From the Horrors of Genocide to Democracy?”
Rwanda’s recent election, its turn toward authoritarianism, and the involvement of Western capital are analyzed.
http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/articles/rwanda-from-the-horrors-of-genocide-to-democracy/
6. Kamran Afary, author of Performance and Activism, Grassroots Discourse after the Los Angeles Rebellion of 1992, and Kevin Anderson, author of Marx at the Margins,
“Los Angeles Protests Against Police Killing Reveal the Real Grassroots”
Protests against the police killing of a day laborer in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles – populated by impoverished Central American immigrants – reveal the real grassroots of US society as it suffers through the Great Recession.
7. Richard Abernethy, Hobgoblin Collective,
“Bangladesh: The People Who Make Your Clothes Demand a Living Wage”
A mass strike of garment workers has exposed poverty wages and attracted international support, but met with severe state repression.
8. Reviews of Raya Dunayevskaya, The Power of Negativity:
Angelica Nuzzo, Hegel-Studien, Bd. 42 (2007)
Stacey Whittle, “Philosophy on the Barricades, International Socialism (Summer 2010)
http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/books/power-of-negativity/
9. Reviews of Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies:
Colin Barker, Socialist Review (July-Aug. 2010)
Nagesh Rao, “When Marx Looked Outside Europe,” International Socialism (Sept.-Oct. 2010)
Barry Healy, “Was Karl Marx ‘Eurocentric?” Links (Oct. 22, 2010)
THE SITE ALSO INCLUDES OTHER ARTICLES FROM THE PAST DECADE BY U. S. MARXIST-HUMANISTS.
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