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| Winter 2004 | Vol:IX-4 | Whole #: 36 |
Blind Faith
Title: Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century LifeBy: Eric Hobsbawm
New York: Pantheon Books, 2003, 464 pp. $30
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Reviewed by Robin Ganev
Winter 2004
Among the great British Marxist historians Eric Hobsbawm is the only one to remain in the Communist Party until the late 1980s. His decision to do so has never fully been explained. Thus the publication of his autobiography, Interesting Times, is an exciting event, as it has the potential of addressing this question. How did Hobsbawm manage to reconcile himself, for example, to 1956? Did he not at least feel disillusioned when he learned about Stalinist atrocities?
| Winter 2004 | Vol:IX-4 | Whole #: 36 |
Intellectuals and Anti-Fascism: For a Critical Historization
Enzo Traverso
We are witnessing today a paradoxical and unsettling phenomenon: the rise of fascist-inspired political movements in the European arena (from France to Italy, from Belgium to Austria), accompanied, in the heart of intellectual circles, by a massive campaign to denigrate the entire anti-fascist tradition.
| Summer 2004 | Vol:X-1 | Whole #: 37 |
Revisiting Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson
February 2004 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. From September 1978 to February 1979, in the course of a massive urban revolution with millions of participants, the Iranian people toppled the regime of Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1941-1979), which had pursued a highly authoritarian program of economic and cultural modernization. By late 1978, the Islamist faction led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had come to dominate the antiregime uprising, in which secular nationalists, democrats, and leftists also participated.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
The First Neoconservative: Herman Wouk, the Americanization of the Holocaust, and the Rise of Neoconservatism
Joel Brodkin
The justification of the intensive bombing of Serbia in 1999 as part of the need to avoid "another Holocaust" is only a recent event in the Americanization of the Nazi Holocaust: specifically its use as a propaganda theme for the defense of U.S. great power interests.
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Jean Meslier and "The Gentle Inclination of Nature"
Michel Onfray
translated by Marvin Mandell
I. Of a Certain Jean Meslier
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Introductory Note to Onfray
Doug Ireland
Michel Onfray, the brightest star among the younger French philosophers, is a brilliant prodigy, a gifted and prolific author who, at the age of only 46, has already written 30 books.
'Bows of pseudo-profundity' and 'moral certitude': Alan Johnson and Democratiya
Roger Spalding February 1, 2010
The merger of the online journal Democratiya, with Dissent, provides an obvious point to begin assessing the role of Alan Johnson's creation. The following is not intended as the last word on this subject, but as a contribution to a process of analysis. The approach here will be to focus on the argumentation used in Democratiya, specifically in the one article written for the journal by Johnson.
| Winter 2007 | Vol:XI-2 | Whole #: 42 |
Marx and Weber: Critics of Capitalism
Michael Lowy
In spite of their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their understanding of modern capitalism: they both perceive it as a system where "the individuals are ruled by abstractions (Marx), where the impersonal and "thing-like" (Versachlicht) relations replace the personal relations of dependence, and where the accumulation of capital becomes an end in itself, largely irrational.
| Jason Schulman | July 18, 2009 |
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay
— Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770)
| Summer 2007 | Vol:XI-3 | Whole #: 43 |
Marx's Mixed Legacy: Anti-Semitism and Socialism
Title: On Anti-Semitism and SocialismBy: Mario Kessler
Berlin: Trafo, 2005<br> 208 pp, 21.80 eur
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Reviewed by Sherry Gorelick
Summer 2007
HOW HAVE MARXIST THEORISTS and activists, Socialist parties and Communist States understood Anti-Semitism? How did they confront the rise of fascism in Germany?