Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by LÖWY Michael
Karl Marx, Kevin Anderson and Eric Plaut (editors), and Gabrielle Edgcomb (translator), Karl Marx on Suicide (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999), 147 pages, $49.95 hardcover and $14.95 paper.
« Peuchet : vom Selbstmord » (Gesellschaftspiegel, zweiter Band, Heft VII, (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Karl Marx, Kevin Anderson and Eric Plaut (editors), and Gabrielle Edgcomb (translator), Karl Marx on Suicide (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999), 147 pages, $49.95 hardcover and $14.95 paper.
Michael Löwy is co-author, with Robert Sayre, of Romanticism against the Tide of (…)
, by KINSMAN Gary
Different Rainbows, edited by Peter Drucker. Gay Men’s Press: London, 2000. 222 pages, U.S. $19.95 (paperback).
THIS COLLECTION IS the first of its kind on the emergence of “queer” movements in all their diversities in the “third world.”
For far too long, writing and theorizing about the (…)
, by HOLLOWAY John
Michael Löwy, in his review of my book, Change the World without taking Power, argues that “democracy should be a central aspect in all processes of social and political decision making, and particularly in a revolutionary process”. I do not disagree with this, but I think it makes little sense (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
John Holloway, Change the world without taking power. The meaning of revolution today, London, Pluto Press, 2002
This is a remarkable essay, thought-provocative and truly radical - in the original sense of the word, « going to the roots of the problems ». Whatever its problems and weaknesses, (…)
, by HOLLOWAY John
John Holloway, Change the world without taking power. The meaning of revolution today, London, Pluto Press, 2002. From Libcom.org website: http://libcom.org/library/change-world-without-taking-power-john-holloway
Chapter 1: The Scream
I.
In the beginning is the scream. We scream.
When (…)
, by HOLLOWAY John
John Holloway
Atilio Borón’s article, raises with exemplary clarity issues that are central to the discussion of communist strategy today. It is because I disagree with him (as he disagrees with me) that I write this short reply.
For me the central issue is the asymmetry of class struggle. (…)
, by HOLLOWAY John
A Note in Reply to Joachim Hirsch Joachim’s comments on the book have a special significance for me. For many years now (since 1975?) I have found that one of the greatest theoretical challenges has been to try and think against-and-beyond Joachim. I can think of no higher compliment. For that, (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
There seems to exist an intimate link between the dialectical method and revolutionary theory : not by chance, the high period of revolutionary thinking in the XXth century, the years 1905-1925, are also those of some of the most interesting attemps to use the hegelo-marxist dialectics as an (…)
, by RICH Adrienne
That the meek word like the righteous word can bully that an Israeli soldier interviewed years after the first intifada could mourn on camera what under orders he did, saw done, did not refuse that another leaving Beit Jala could scrawl on a wall: We are truely sorry for the mess we (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Daniel Bensaïd, a central leader of the French Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire (LCR), spoke on ’Leninism in the 21st century’ at the ’Marxism 2001’ event organised by the British SWP. Phil Hearse spoke to him there.
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Q. Lenin made important contributions to Marxist (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Translation of Daniel Bensaïd’s introduction to his book: “Résistances. Essai de taupologie générale”, Fayard, Paris 2001.
‘Well said, old mole. Canst work I’th’earth so fast?A worthy pioner.’ (Shakespeare, Hamlet I:5).
Our old friend is short-sighted. He is a haemophiliac as well. Doubly (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
I would like to start with a reference to the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, which contains a remarkable and prophetic diagnostic of capitalist globalization The capitalist system, insisted the two young authors, is embarking upon a process of cultural and economic unification of the (…)
, by CHATTOPADHYAY Kunal
By the end of the twentieth century, it can hardly be said that there is any dearth of literature on Trotsky. There are well-researched biographies in all the major European languages, studies of his political thought, books and articles on particular facets of his work or his ideas, and (…)
, by FOSTER John Bellamy
This article was written for presentation at the Hitotsubashi Symposium, “The Twentieth Century: Dreams and Realities,” Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, December 2-3, 2000.
The standard solution offered to the environmental problem in advanced capitalist economies is to shift technology in a (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
The theory of permanent revolution is not a metaphysical speculation but an attempt to respond to one of the most dramatic questions of our epoch: how to resolve the appalling social problems suffered by the dependent capitalist countries - colonial and semi-colonial in the language of the time (…)
, by SHANNON Phil
REVIEW OF: The Great Olympic Swindle: When the World Wanted its Games Back by Andrew Jennings, Simon & Schuster, 2000, 390pp., $22.76 (pb).
“And the winner is ... the IOC!” Wild cheering for International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch from the other IOC members, (…)
, by WATERMAN Peter
Abstract: A review of seven books, articles, briefings and email documents suggests a revival both of labour internationalism and of left reflection on such. The materials come from, or relate to, Japan, South Africa, the North American Free Trade Area, to Europe, to our globalising world and to (…)
, by BEGG Zanny
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has spent $230 million on a series of advertisements around the theme “celebrate humanity”. This exercise in “global branding” is supposed to encourage us to see the Olympic Games as a celebration of the best that humanity can offer: health, (…)
, by ANDERSON Benedict
Reflections from Taiwan on the history of creole and official, linguistic and long-distance nationalisms in Asia and Europe, and their implications for China. Is there any significant difference here between East and West?
Mercifully, we no longer hear a great deal about Asian Values. These (…)
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