Mark Cowling, Marxism and Criminological Theory: A Critique and a Toolkit (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), £50 Two periods of history have witnessed a serious and sustained Marxist engagement with the study of law. The first, not surprisingly, was in Russia in… Continue Reading
Norbert Lynton, Tatlin’s Tower: Monument to Revolution (Yale University, 2009), £35 Vladimir Tatlin’s “Monument to the Third International” is the most famous building never built. Designed from 1919 to 1920 by a collective, led by the futurist painter and sculptor,… Continue Reading
Tristram Hunt, The Frock–Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (Allen Lane, 2009), £25.00 Ten years ago Paul Foot wrote a review of Francis Wheen’s engaging and jovial, if somewhat lightweight, biography of Karl Marx. In the review he… Continue Reading
Bill Dunn, Global Political Economy: A Marxist Critique (Pluto, 2008), £19.99 Political economy is as old as capitalism itself. It emerged in the late 18th century and its object of study was the way capitalist production and exchange were to… Continue Reading
Jan Willem Stutje, Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred (Verso, 2007), £19.99 Ernest Mandel was a tireless socialist activist over five decades. He wrote prolifically on economics, history and contemporary politics, and was an impressive lecturer and debater in several… Continue Reading
A review of Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Allen Lane, 2007), £25 Authors with both talent and a theme of topical importance are still not guaranteed to seize the public imagination: they also require good… Continue Reading
This is the first in a series of responses to Chris Harman’s latest book, Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx. When Chris Harman began work on Zombie Capitalism in late 2006 his goal was to criticise what… Continue Reading
Shaun Breslin, China and the Global Political Economy (Macmillan, 2009), £19.99 Jenny Clegg, China’s Global Strategy (Pluto, 2009) £19.99 Nobody knows how long or how deep the world economic recession is likely to be. For China the stakes are especially… Continue Reading
Gerd-Rainer Horn, The Spirit of ‘68—Rebellion in Western Europe and North America 1956-1976 (Oxford University, 2008), £19.99 When International Socialism’s editors asked me to review this book I was in the middle of a speaking tour of the wave of… Continue Reading
Jeffrey B Perry, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918 (Colombia University, 2008), £27 Hubert Harrison was a towering figure in US black and socialist politics in the early years of the 20th century. He was known as the… Continue Reading