An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital

Daniel P. Liston, CAPITALIST SCHOOLS: EXPLANATION AND ETHICS IN RADICAL STUDIES OF SCHOOLING (New York: Routledge, 1988), and Henry A. Giroux, SCHOOLING AND THE STRUGGLE FOR PUBLIC LIFE: CRITICAL PEDAGOGY IN THE MODERN AGE (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

Ernest L. Boyer, COLLEGE: THE UNDERGRADUATE EXPERIENCE IN AMERICA (New York: Harper &; Row, 1987; first paperback edition 1988).

Elzbieta Ettinger, ROSA LUXEMBURG: A LIFE (Boston: Beacon, 1986).

Stanley Aronowitz, SCIENCE AS POWER: DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY IN MODERN SCIENCE (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988).

Shoshana Zuboff, IN THE AGE OF THE SMART MACHINE: THE FUTURE OF WORK AND POWER (New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1988)

Carol Gould, RE‐THINKING DEMOCRACY, FREEDOM AND SOCIAL COOPERATION IN POLITICS, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Seyla Benhabib, CRITIQUE, NORM, AND UTOPIA: A STUDY OF THE FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL THEORY (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)

Burton Zwiebach, THE COMMON LIFE: AMBIGUITY, AGREEMENT, AND THE STRUCTURE OF MORALS (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988)     

Books in Brief

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, HEGEMONY & SOCIALIST STRATEGY—TOWARDS A RADICAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICS (London: Verso, 1985), trans. by Winston Moore and Paul Cammack.

Chris Rojek, capitalism and leisure theory (London and New York: Methuen, 1985)

Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux, education under siege—THE CONSERVATIVE, LIBERAL AND RADICAL DEBATE OVER SCHOOLING (South Hadley: Bergin and Garvey Publishers, 1985).

Bertell Ollman and Edward Vernoff. THE LEFT ACADEMY: MARXIST SCHOLARSHIP ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES, VOLUME 1.

—THE LEFT ACADEMY: MARXIST SCHOLARSHIP ON AMERICAN CAMPUSES, VOLUME 2, (New York: Praeger, 1984).

Alam Blum and Peter McHugh. SELF REFLECTION IN THE ARTS AND SCIENCES, (Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1984).

Bottomore, Tom, with Laurence Harris, V. G. Kiernan, and Ralph Miliband. A DICTIONARY OF MARXIST THOUGHT. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983)

Resnick, Stephen, and Richard Wolff, eds. rethinking marxism: Essays for Harry Magdoff & Paul Sweezy. (Brooklyn, New York: Au‐tonomedia, 1985).

Adam Przeworski, capitalism and social democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985)

Gosta Esping‐Andersen, politics against markets: the social democratic road TO power (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985)

CUBA: twenty‐five years of revolution—1959–1984 (New York: Praeger, 1985), edited by Sandor Halabsky and John M. Kirk.

Barry Barnes, about science (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985)     

Exchange on Eurasianism

Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger. NOT AUTOMATIC: WOMEN AND THE LEFT IN THE FORGING OF THE AUTO WORKERS UNION. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000.     

Book reviews

Anthony Giddens, THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNITY (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990). Anthony Giddens, MODERNITY AND SELF‐IDENTITY: SELF AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE MODERN AGE (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1991)

Robert B. Westbrook, JOHN DEWEY AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991)

David Harvey, THE CONDITION OF POSTMODERNITY: AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGINS OF CULTURAL CHANGE (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989)

Robin Blackburn, ed., AFTER THE FALL: THE FAILURE OF COMMUNISM AND THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM (London and New York: Verso, 1991)

Andrew Hacker, TWO NATIONS: BLACK AND WHITE, SEPARATE, HOSTILE, UNEQUAL. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1992)

Ridgeway, James, BLOOD IN THE FACE: THE KU KLUX KLAN, ARYAN NATIONS, NAZI SKINHEADS AND THE RISE OF A NEW WHITE CULTURE (New York: Thunders Mouth Press, 1991)

Gene H. Bell‐Villada, THE CARLOS CHADWICK MYSTERY: A NOVEL OF COLLEGE LIFE AND POLITICAL TERROR. (Albuquerque, NM: Amador Publishers, 1990)     

ibn Kenyatta,poems for an imperiled world

Scott Lash and John Urry, THE END OF ORGANIZED CAPITALISM (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987)

Michael E. Porter, THE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF NATIONS (New York: The Free Press, 1990)

Alice Teichova, Maurice Lévy‐Leboyer and Helga Nussbaum, eds., MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989)     

On protectionism

Whose Congress?

John C. Berg, UNEQUAL STRUGGLE: CLASS, GENDER, RACE AND POWER IN THE U.S. CONGRESS (Boulder, CO: Westview Press (Harper Collins), 1994).

Karl Mannheim's Liberalism

David Kettler and Volker Meja, KARL MANNHEIM AND THE CRISIS OF LIBERALISM: THE SECRET OF THESE NEW TIMES (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1995).

Red Not Dead

Constance Coiner, BETTER RED: THE WRITING AND RESISTANCE OF TILLIE OLSEN AND MERIDEL LE SUEUR, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

For further reading

Mendel LeSueur. Corn Village. Sauk City, Wisconsin: Stanton and Lee, 1970.

The Girl. Cambridge, Mass.: West End Press, 1978.

Tillie Olsen. Tell Me a Riddle. New York: Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1989.

Silences. New York: Dell, 1978.

My Mother The Teacher

Ruth Jacknow Markowitz, MY DAUGHTER, THE TEACHER: JEWISH TEACHERS IN THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993).

A Personal Response     

Arab Modernities: Islamism,Nationalism, and Liberalism in the Post-Colonial Arab World

Mumia Abu‐Jamal, ALL THINGS CENSORED. Edited with introduction by Noelle Hanrahan; foreword by Alice Walker (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000).

Eric Parens and Adrienne Asch, eds., PRENATAL TESTING AND DISABILITY RIGHTS (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2000).

August H. Nimtz, Jr. MARX AND ENGELS: THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEMOCRATIC BREAKTHROUGH (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2000).

Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds. with Greg Albo and David Coates, WORKING CLASSES: GLOBAL REALITIES. SOCIALIST REGISTER 2001 (London, New York, and Halifax: The Merlin Press, Monthly Review Press, and Fernwood Press, 2000 and 2001).

James Blaut, EIGHT EUROCENTRIC HISTORIANS (New York: Guilford Press, 2000).

Susanne Jonas, OF CENTAURS AND DOVES: GUATEMALA'S PEACE PROCESS (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 2000).

Bertell Oilman, HOW TO TAKE AN EXAM...AND REMAKE THE WORLD (Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2001).     

Book reviews

William Pelz, THE SPARTAKUSBUND AND THE GERMAN WORKING CLASS MOVEMENT, 1914–1919. (Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1987)

Bogdan Denitch. THE END OF THE COLD WAR: EUROPEAN UNITY, SOCIALISM AND THE SHIFT IN GLOBAL POWER. (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1990.)

Terry Eagleton, ed., RAYMOND WILLIAMS: A CRITICAL READER (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1989)

Michel de Certeau, THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988)

Judith Marcus and Zoltan Tarr, eds., GEORG LUKÁCS: THEORY, CULTURE AND POLITICS (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1989).

Ian Shapiro, POLITICAL CRITICISM. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990), xii; 338pp.     

Resources: Left Listservs and Websites

Gerald Meyer, VITO MARCANTONIO: RADICAL POLITICIAN 1902–1954 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989)

Charney, George, A Long Journey (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968).

Gallagher, Dorothy. All the Right Enemies: The Life and Murder of Carlo Tresca (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1988).

Lader, Lawrence. Power on the Left: American Radical Movements Since 1946 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1979).

Lagumina, Salvatore J. “Case Studies in Ethnicity and Italo‐American Politicians.” The Italian Experience in the United States, eds. Silvano H. Tomasi and Madeline H. Engel. (New York: Center for Migration Studies, 1970), pp. 143–61.

Luthin, Reinhard H. American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (New York: Peter Smith, 1954).

Mills, C. Wright; Senior, Clarence; and Goldsen, Rose Kohn. The Puerto Rican Journey: Newest Migrants (New York: Harper &; Brothers, 1950).

Naison, Mark. Communists in Harlem during the Depression (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1983).

Riesman, David. Faces in the Crowd (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951).

Rolle, Andrew. The Italian Americans: Troubled Roots. (New York: The Free Press, 1980).

Sasuly, Richard. “Vito Marcantonio: The People's Politician,” in American Radicals: Some Problems and Personalities, ed. Harvey Goldberg (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1957), pp. 115–59.

Schaffer, Alan. Vito Marcantonio, Radical in Congress (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1966).

Starobin, Joseph. American Communism in Crisis, 1943–1957 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972).

Walzer, Kenneth. “The Party and the Polling Place: American Communism and an American Labor Party.” Radical History Review; 23 (Spring 1980), pp. 104–35.

Herbert G. Gutman, POWER AND CULTURE: ESSAYS ON THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS, Ira Berlin, ed. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987)

Peter H. Rossi, DOWN AND OUT IN AMERICA: THE ORIGINS OF HOMELESSNESS (Chicago and London: University Of Chicago Press, 1989). Charles Hoch and Robert A. Slayton, NEW HOMELESS AND OLD: COMMUNITY AND THE SKID ROW HOTEL (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., Jeffrey Paul, John Ahrens eds. (Basil Blackwell, 1989), CAPITALISM and Jon Elster and Karl Ove Moene eds. ALTERNATIVES TO CAPITALISM‐STUDIES IN MARXISM AND SOCIAL THEORY (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

Michael Walzer, INTERPRETATION AND SOCIAL CRITICISM (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)

Andrew Gamble, THE FREE ECONOMY AND THE STRONG STATE: THE POLITICS OF THATCHERISM (Durham: Duke University Press, 1988)     

Global History: A View from the South

John Bellamy Foster, MARX'S ECOLOGY: MATERIALISM AND NATURE (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000)

Greg Grandin, THE BLOOD OF GUATEMALA: A HISTORY OF RACE AND NATION (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000)

John L. Hammond, FIGHTING TO LEARN: POPULAR EDUCATION AND GUERRILLA WAR IN EL SALVADOR (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998)

César J. Ayala, AMERICAN SUGAR KINGDOM. THE PLANTATION ECONOMY OF THE SPANISH CARIBBEAN 1898–1934 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999)

Christopher David Brady, “Mid‐Century American Marxist: The Progessive Education of Leo Huberman.” M.A. Thesis in History, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1999; (for ordering information, call 800–521–3042 [order #1396671])     

Save Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distress

Seeking and speaking the truth

>William Blum, ROGUE STATE: A GUIDE TO THE WORLD'S ONLY SUPERPOWER (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 2000).

Johanna Brenner, WOMEN AND THE POLITICS OF CLASS (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000).

Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames, THE DISABILITY RIGHTS MOVEMENT: FROM CHARITY TO CONFRONTATION (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001).

AND THEN, Vol. 10 (2001). Copies @ $5 may be ordered from Robert Roth, 210 West 10^th Street (# 3D), New York, NY 10014.     

Religion,Revolution and Higher Love

J. F. (Jim) Brown, SURGE TO FREEDOM: THE END OF COMMUNIST RULE IN EASTERN EUROPE (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 1991)

Edward and Regula Boorstein, COUNTERREVOLUTION: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY (New York: International Publishers, 1990)

Bade Onomode, A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE AFRICAN CRISIS (London: Zed, 1988).

Bade Onomode, ed., THE IMF, THE WORLD BANK AND THE AFRICAN DEBT: THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPACT. Vol. 2 (London: Zed, 1989).

Robert S. Dombroski, ANTONIO GRAMSCI (Boston: G. K. Hall &; Co., 1989)

Jürgen Habermas, MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTION translated by Christian Lenhart and Shierry Weber Nicholsen (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990)     

Predatory democracy: Family,bureaucrats and gangsters

Daniel Burton‐Rose, with Dan Pens and Paul Wright, eds., THE CELLING OF AMERICA: AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE U.S. PRISON INDUSTRY (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press, 1998).

Winston James, HOLDING ALOFT THE BANNER OF ETHIOPIA: CARIBBEAN RADICALISM IN EARLY TWENTIETH‐CENTURY AMERICA (London: Verso Press, 1998).

Rupert Charles Lewis, WALTER RODNEY'S INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT (Barbados: University of West Indies Press, and Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998).     

Reviews

THE ROOTS OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD LA TIN AMERICA

G. Pope Atkins, Latin America in the International Political System, second edition. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989. Pp. 421.)

Lars Schoultz: National Security and United States Policy toward Latin America. (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987. Pp. 377.)

Kevin J. Middlebrook and Carlos Rico, eds.: The United States and Latin America in the 1980s (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1986. Pp. 648. Second printing 1988.)

GENEROSITY AND SELF‐INTEREST

Teresa Odendahl: Charity Begins at Home: Generosity and Self‐interest among the Philanthropic Elite. (New York: Basic Books, 1990. Pp. 298.)

HOBBES AMONG THE PATRIARCHS

Arnold A. Rogow: Thomas Hobbes: Radical in the Service of Reaction. (New York: W. W. Norton Company, 1986. Pp. 287.)

STRACHEY AND MACLEAN: BRITISH ALTERNA TIVES

Michael Newman: John Strachey. (Manchester: Manchester Press, 1989. Pp. 201.)

B. J. Ripley and J. McHugh: John Maclean. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989. Pp. 201.)     

From Marketing Warfare to Warfare Marketing

ABSTRACT

THE PARADOXES OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY, 2nd Edition. Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 416 pp. Reviewed by Lawrence O. Hamer.     

Reviews & notes

Pierre Rosanvallon L'âge de l'autogestion (Paris, 1976, Editions du Seuil).

Daniel Zwerdling, Democracy at Work: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation and Self‐Management Experiments in the United States and Europe (Washington, D.C.: Daniel Zwerdling, 1978). Distributed by Association for Self‐Management, c/o 1414 Spring Road, NW, Washington, D.C. 20010 ($5.50 for individuals/$10.50 for institutions).

Benjamin I. Page, Choices and Echoes in Presidential Elections: Rational Man and Electoral Democracy. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. 336 pp. $17.50).

Richard Barnet and Ronald Muller, Global Reach (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974)

Giovanni Arrighi, “International Corporations, Labor Aristocracies and Economic Development in Tropical Africa,” in Arrighi and Saul, Essays on the Political Economy of Africa (New York: Monthly Review, 1973).

Henry Landsberger, “The Labor Elite: Is it Revolutionary?,” in Lipset and Solari (eds.), Elites in Latin America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967).

Jürgen Habermas, Communication and the Evolution of Society, trans. Thomas McCarthy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1979. Pp. xxiv, 239. $5.95 paper).

Marshall Sahlins, Culture and Practical Reason (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. Pp. xi, 252. $4.95 paper).

Leszek Kolakowski's long‐awaited survey of Marxism [Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution, 3 volumes, translated from the Polish by P. S. Falla, Oxford University Press, 1978].     

No One Is Illegal: Organizing Beyond Left Nationalism in Fortress North America

James F. Petras, with Howard Brill, Dennis Engbarth, Edward S. Herman, and Morris H. Morley, Latin America: Bankers, Generals, and the struggle for social justice (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1986).

Peter Winn, weavers of revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Nancy Gina Bermeo, the revolution within the revolution: workers’ control in rural Portugal (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986).

Oliver C. Cox, race, class, and the world system (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1987)

Ronald Lawson, Editor; with the assistance of Mark Naison: the tenant movement in new York city, 1904–1984 (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1986).

Alexander J. De Grand, in Stalin's shadow, angelo tasca and the crisis of the left in Italy and France, 1910–1945 (Dekalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1986).

Mark Kesselman and Joel Krieger, eds., European politics in transition (Lexington, Ma.: D.C. Heath and Company, 1987).

Peter Bergmann, Nietzsche, “the last Antipolitical German” (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987).

Christopher Norris, contest of faculties: philosophy and theory after Deconstruction (New York: Methuen, 1985) and Gillian Rose, dialectic of nihilism: post‐structuralism and law (New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984)     

BOOK REVIEWS

ABSTRACT

CAMPAIGN MODE: STRATEGIC VISION IN CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. Michael John Burton and Daniel M. Shea. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, 179 pages. Reviewed by Paul Baines.

CAPTURINGCAMPAIGNDYNAMICS:THENATIONALANNEN-BERG ELECTION SURVEY. Daniel Romer, Kate Kenski, Paul Waldman, Christopher Adasiewicz and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 224 pages. Reviewed by Paul Baines.     

OTHER AREAS

Books Reviewed
Adrian Guelke, RETHINKING THE RISE AND FALL OF APARTHEID , (ANTHONY BUTLER), 445
Larbi Sadiki, THE SEARCH FOR ARAB DEMOCRACY , (SAMUEL JACOB KURUVILLA), 445
James L. Gibson, OVERCOMING APARTHEID: can truth reconcile a divided nation? , (ADRIAN GUELKE), 446
Tatah Mentan, DILEMMAS OF WEAK STATES: Africa and transnational terrorism in the twenty-first century , (ELLIOTT GREEN), 447
Richard Gott, CUBA: a new history , (JORGE I. DOMÍNGUEZ), 448
Dmitri V. Trenin and Aleksei V. Malashenko, RUSSIA's RESTLESS FRONTIER: the Chechnya factor in post-Soviet Russia , (DAVID J. GALBREATH), 448
Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias (eds), POST-SOVIET WOMEN ENCOUNTERING TRANSITION: nation building, economic survival and civic activism , (JENNY R. WÜSTENBERG), 449
Daniel Heradstveit and Helge Hveem (eds), OIL IN THE GULF: obstacle to democracy and development , (GERD NONNEMAN), 450
Ashutosh Varshney (ed.), INDIA AND THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES , (ROGÉRIO DE SOUZE FARIAS), 451
Helen Irving, FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION , (MATT QVORTRUP), 451
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, SHARING THE LAND OF CANAAN: human rights of the Israeli–Palestinian struggle , (SAMUEL JACOB KURUVILLA), 452
Jennifer L. McCoy and David J. Myers (eds) THE UNRAVELLING OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA , (ALAN SIAROFF), 453
Aled De Waal (ed.), ISLAMISM AND ITS ENEMIES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA , (STEPHEN VERTIGANS), 454
Guillermo O'Donnell, Jorg Vargas Cullell and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta, THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY , (SEAN HANLEY), 454     

Book reviews

Mike Marqusee, REDEMPTION SONG: MUHAMMAD ALI AND THE SPIRIT OF THE SIXTIES (Verso Books, 1999)

Marilyn Buck, David Gilbert, and Laura Whitehorn, ENEMIES OF THE STATE, (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Resistance in Brooklyn Publication, 1998). Meyer, c/o WRL, 339 Lafayette Street, NY 10012 or mmmsrnb@igc.org.

Viviane Forrester, THE ECONOMIC HORROR (Cambridge, UK: The Polity Press [in association with Oxford, UK, and Maiden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers], 1999).

Peter Roman, PEOPLE'S POWER: CUBA'S EXPERIENCE WITH REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999).

Stanislao G. Pugliese, CARLO ROSSELLI: SOCIALIST HERETIC AND ANTIFASCIST EXILE (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999).