A Review of Revolution and Its Narratives: China’s Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949–1966 by Cai Xiang Christopher Connery Department of Literature, University of California Santa Cruz cconnery@ucsc.edu Abstract This is a review of the English translation of Shanghai-based scholar Cai Xiang’s Revolution and Its Narratives (originally published in Chinese asGeming/Xushu in 2010) in the
A Review of Na Contracorrente da História: documentos do trotskismo brasileiro 1930–1940 [Against the Current of History: Documents of Brazilian Trotskyism, 1930–1940], edited by Fúlvio Abramo and Dainis Karepovs Carlos Eduardo Rebello de Mendonça Institute of Social Sciences, Rio de Janeiro State University carloseduardorebellodemendonca@gmail.com Abstract This is a review of a
A Review of Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity by Koray Çalışkan Lorena Lombardozzi Department of Economics, The Open University lorena.lombardozzi@open.ac.uk Abstract This review-article discusses, through the lens of Çalışkan’s Market Threads: How Cotton Farmers and Traders Create a Global Commodity, how the mainstream economic conceptualisation of markets and prices
Marcelo Starcenbaum Today, more than 90 years after the first publication of Mariátegui’s Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality, it is no simple task to offer a meaningful intervention around his figure. Doing so inevitably means measuring oneself against a mountain of research that has already dealt capably with the innumerable problems connected to
Roger Martelli The philosopher Lucien Sève has died of coronavirus on 23 March, at the age of 93. It took the plague that is paralysing our societies to bring down a man whom no one had been able to subdue. He was a great figure of both Communism and critical thinking, yet far from
Panagiotis Sotiris The coronavirus pandemic has forced us to rethink the politics of health in the broadest sense. In particular, we have had to confront again that vexed relationship between the state, the dominant social relations and public health. Concepts that may have seemed obscure and or to have fallen out of one academic
A Review of The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism by Samir Amin David W. Pritchard Department of English, University of Massachusetts Amherst dpritcha@english.umass.edu Abstract This essay takes The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism as an opportunity to ask the question of how the specific discursive mode of polemic fits into the overall project of the critique of
A Review of The Political Force of Musical Beauty by Barry Shank, andMusic and Capitalism: A History of the Present by Timothy D. Taylor Mark Abel School of Humanities, University of Brighton M.Abel@brighton.ac.uk Abstract This
A Review of Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory by Enzo Traverso Joseph Fronczak Department of History, Princeton University joseph.fronczak@princeton.edu Abstract Taking up Walter Benjamin’s idea of ‘left-wing melancholy’, yet investing the concept with redemptive qualities, Enzo Traverso argues that melancholy offers the left a resource for mobilising a return to revolutionary politics.
A Review of Marx’s ‘Capital’, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity by Guido Starosta Kaveh Boveiri Department of Philosophy, Université de Montréal, Montréal kaveh.boveiri@gmail.com Abstract This review essay examines Marx’s ‘Capital’, Method and Revolutionary Subjectivity by Guido Starosta, published as Volume 112 of theHistorical Materialism Book Series. The thesis proposed here is that, notwithstanding the claim
A Review of Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil by Victoria Langland Carlos Eduardo Rebello de Mendonça Institute of Social Sciences, Rio de Janeiro State University carloseduardorebellodemendonca@gmail.com Abstract An historical account of the founding and subsequent political role of the Brazilian National Students’ Organisation (UNE)
A Review of Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital by Jason W. Moore Christopher R. Cox Department of Geography, University of Washington crc42@uw.edu Abstract In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore helps to resuscitate the barely-breathing body of the dialectic in the so-called Anthropocene. Now
