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Coalition Socialism
Coalition Socialism The intertwined relationship between liberalism and socialism offers important lessons for today’s fractious intra-left fights. A mural depicting the Newport Rising of 1839, a Chartist rebellion in Wales (Wikimedia Commons) Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought by Bruno Leipold Princeton University Press, 2024, 440 pp. The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism by Matthew McManus Routledge, 2024, 268 pp.
The Value of Nature
The Value of Nature Why have some gifts of nature remained free? ▪ Spring 2025 In classical political economy, natural agents appear as contributors to production, conventionally understood: sheep’s viscera help produce wool; wind drives the sails of merchant ships; fertile soil helps crops grow. But each of these is dependent on countless others that go unmentioned.
The Proletarian Poet
The Proletarian Poet A new book on Claude McKay is part of an effort to place the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance within the Black radical tradition. ▪ Summer 2022 Claude McKay: The Making of a Black Bolshevik by Winston James Columbia University Press, 2022, 464 pp. In 1919, the New York Times printed a number of reports on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice related to the scourge of “Bolshevism” supposedly taking root among the country’s Black population.
Authentic Freedom
Authentic Freedom Two recent memoirs by writers born under communism in Eastern Europe reflect on ideas central to left: cosmopolitanism and socialism. Steven Lukes ▪ Spring 2022 The Passport as Home: Comfort in Rootlessness by Andrei S. Markovits Central European University Press, 2021, 328 pp. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History by Lea Ypi W.W. Norton & Company, 2022, 288 pp.
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A Radical View By: Steven Lukes Publisher: Red Globe Press Print ISBN: 9781352012354, 1352012359 Print ISBN: 9781352012354, 1352012359 eText ISBN: 9781352012354, 1352012359 eText ISBN: 9781352012354, 1352012359 Edition: 3rd Copyright year: 2021 Format: Fixed Available from $ 35.99 USD SKU: 9781352012354 See How It Works. The world’s #1 eTextbook reader for students. VitalSource is the leading provider of online textbooks and course materials.
Does Central Europe Exist?
Does Central Europe Exist? The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central-Eastern Europe by Václav Havel et al., introduction by Steven Lukes, edited by John Keane Hutchinson (London), 228 pp., £16.95 The Anatomy of a Reticence by Václav Havel Charta 77 Foundation, Voices from Czechoslovakia, No. 1, (Stockholm)., 34 pp., $3.00 (paper) Antipolitics: An Essay by George Konrád, Translated from the Hungarian by Richard E.
The Big Picture: Trump’s Charisma
Accepting the presidential nomination at the 2016 Republican convention, Donald Trump painted a picture of America in crisis, with “poverty and violence at home” and “war and destruction abroad.” ...
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No past revolution, she says, can be attributed to professional revolutionaries. Usually it was the other way around: “revolution broke out and liberated, as it were, the professional revolutionaries from wherever they happened to be – from jail, or from the coffee house, or from the library.” Five great amateurs whose work changed the world, from author of The Amateur, Andy Merrifield.
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