Category: Reviews
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Sometime They’ll Have a Party and Nobody Will Come
Chance Phillips
A review of Hollow Parties: “The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics” by Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld
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Metastasis by Nafis Hasan
Elena Gormley
This review looks at a new book that explores how capitalism has exacerbated cancer and exploited the industry that has been built to treat it.
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The New Flesh by Adam C. Jones
Sam Dee
Adam C. Jones’s new book explores how the digital economy has reshaped everyday life, but its insights on the relationship between the digital and the wider political economy as a whole fall short.
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No Time for a Politically Immature Left
Sudip Bhattacharya
Judith Stein and Nelson Lichtenstein’s book dissects the Clinton administration’s “Fabulous Failure” to deliver on its notional progressive commitments in the context of weak and disorganized social movements.
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Mirror, Mirror, Build the Wall
David Duhalde
Naomi Klein’s latest book explores how her “Doppelganger”, Naomi Wolf, embraced far-right conspiracies. Their divergent paths contain lessons for socialist organizing today.
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The Constitutional Bind by Aziz Rana
Luke Pickrell
Aziz Rana’s new book, The Constitutional Bind, provides a blueprint for the Left to return to agitating against the constitutional order. We should follow it.
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Erich Fromm and the Freedom to Create a Just Future
Lennox Tweyo
The idea of social character can give us the tools to move beyond capitalism’s commons sense.
Erich Fromm in 1974. Müller-May / Rainer Funk / CC BY-SA 3.0 (DE)