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Book reviews

The Trump phenomenon

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Anonymous, A Warning, Little, Brown (2019), £14.99, and Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, A Very Stable Genius: Donald J Trump’s Testing of America, Bloomsbury (2020), £20. No president of the United States has had more written about… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews Donald Trump, populism, The United States

Making an ecological worldview

Posted on 13th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of John Bellamy Foster, The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology, Monthly Review Press (2020), £30. Since John Bellamy Foster published Marx’s Ecology in 2000, the idea that Karl Marx had little to say on environmental issues has… Continue Reading →

Article, Book reviews Ecology, Environment, Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Science

Beating the bond vigilantes

Posted on 15th April 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Grace Blakeley, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation Grace Blakeley (Repeater, 2017), £10.99. Stolen is a very comprehensive and readable account of the roots of financialisation in the 1970s crisis, which ended the “golden age”… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics, finance, Keynesianism, neoliberalism

A dialectical delight

Posted on 31st March 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Donny Gluckstein and Terry Sullivan, Hegel and Revolution (Bookmarks, 2020), £7. The thought of G W F Hegel might seem like an odd topic of conversation for Marxists. By the time he died in 1831, Hegel had… Continue Reading →

Book reviews

Nodes of resistance

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Immanuel Ness, Choke Points: Logistics Workers Disturbing the Global Supply Chain (Pluto, 2018), £18.99 It is a truism that, in the era of economic globalisation, capital needs to ­circulate without disruption. The complex network… Continue Reading →

Book reviews

Living for the city

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Geoff Mann, In The Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy and Revolution (Verso, 2019), £14.99 Geoff Mann’s (sympathetic) critique of John Maynard Keynes—“the most ­influential economist of the 20th Century”—is worth reading for two… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics, Keynesianism

Popular Fronting, 1934-2012

Posted on 17th October 2019 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Richard J Evans, Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History (Little, Brown, 2019), £35 Breadth and verve made Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) the most sold and most translated of socialist historians ever to write in English. Compared with his… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Eric Hobsbawm, History

Revolutionary psychology

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Carl Ratner and Daniele Nunes Henrique Silva (eds), Vygotsky and Marx: Toward a Marxist Psychology (Routledge, 2017), £33.99 Lev Vygotsky was a brilliant psychologist and educationalist who played several important roles in advising and representing the new… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Lev Vygotsky, Mental distress, Psychology

German workers get that sinking feeling

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Oliver Nachtwey, Germany’s Hidden Crisis: Social Decline in the Heart of Europe (Verso, 2018), £16.99 Oliver Nachtwey’s book sets out to examine the truth of the central ­ideological myths of the German economy. First, that Germany is… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics, Germany

Dollar, debt and the end of the American dream

Posted on 1st July 2019 by Camilla

A review of Adam Tooze, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (Penguin, 2019), £12.99 I won’t say kowtow…but at least be nice to the countries that lend you money—Gao Xiqing, Head of the Chinese Sovereign Wealth… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics

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