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Chomsky on Anarchism
Letter: Seth Farber Winter 2011George Fish’s review of Chomsky on Anarchism does not serve Chomsky well at all. While Mr. Fish gives a picturesque description of many of the essays in the book there is no indication that he seriously wrestled with Chomsky’s ideas on anarchism, socialism, the Russian revolution, the roots of totalitarianism, the vanguard party — the big ideas that Chomsky addresses.
Zimbabwe and Rhode Island: The new exemplar for labor
| Lois Weiner | February 26, 2010 |
“Unions are killing the economy” says Henry Blodget at the Business Insider. He gleefully applauds the firing of every teacher in a Rhode Island school for their arrogance. How dare workers, teachers especially, think they have a voice in their working conditions or salaries? How uppity of teachers to sneer at the bosses’ absolutist control of the workplace. Let’s recall that Henry Blodget was indicated for insider trading.
A Hostile Biography of Leon Trotsky
| Reviewed by Paul Le Blanc | January 1, 2010 |
Robert Service. Trotsky: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 600 pages, including end notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.
The Class Struggle in Post-Soviet Russia
| by Boris Kagarlitsky | Summer 2009 |
TRANSLATED BY MICHEL VALE
THE RESTORATION OF CAPITALISM on the territory of the former Soviet Union was accompanied not only by unprecedented attacks on the social rights of the population. (Not only rights characteristic of the Soviet system, e.g., the right to housing, were rescinded, but also many of those that in the West are considered a normal attribute of a civilized attitude toward the wage laborer). No less impressive was the ease with which the new bourgeoisie imposed its conditions on the workers.
LGBT Political Cul-de-sac: Make a U-Turn
| by Sherry Wolf | Winter 2009 |
Electoral Cul-de-sac
Socialism and Homosexuality
| by Thomas Harrison | Winter 2009 |
SAME-SEX DESIRE has always been a part of human life.There is much evidence, though not yet conclusive, that a predominant sexual attraction to members of one’s own sex is innate. But innate or not, we know that it is definitely formed early in life, certainly before the age of ten.
Anarchism and Socialism
| by Marvin Mandell | Summer 2009 |
WAYNE PRICE’S THE ABOLITION OF THE STATE is a well considered, well researched, and well written book. I shall try to summarize his major points in the first several chapters. Chapters 9, 10, and 11 deal with the failure of revolutions in Russia and Spain and the success of the counter-revolution in Germany, and I shall discuss them as well.
- Both anarchists and Marxists believe in a revolution from below by the working class.