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Understanding the Venezuelan
Revolution: Hugo
Chavez Talks to Marta Harnecker by Hugo Chavez and Marta Harnecker
Marta Harnecker's
interviews with Hugo Chavez began soon after one of the most dramatic moments
of Chavez's presidency-the failed coup of April 2002, which ended with Chavez
restored to power by a massive movement of protest and resistance. In the
aftermath of the failed coup, Chavez talks to Harnecker about the formation of
his political ideas, his aspirations for Venezuela, its domestic and
international policies, problems of political organization, relations with
social movements in other countries, and more, constantly relating these to
concrete events and to strategies for change.
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The Next Liberation Struggle:
Capitalism, Socialism,
and Democracy in Southern Africa by John S. Saul
The Next
Liberation Struggle integrates the concrete observations of a seasoned
observer and participant in southern African liberation struggles with analysis
of and reflection on the large question of the place of southern Africa within
the global capitalist order and its capacities to contribute toward remaking
that global order. It examines specific national developments in South Africa,
Namibia, Mozambique, and Tanzania. At the same time, it shows throughout how
the problems of each national context are linked by a common location in the
global order, and argues for a collective regional response.
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The Fiction
of a Thinkable World:
Body, Meaning, and the
Culture of Capitalism by Michael Steinberg
Beautifully conceived and
written, The Fiction of a Thinkable World shows how the Western
conception of the human subject came to be formed historically, how it
contrasts with that of Eastern thought, and how it provides the basic
justification for the institutions of liberal capitalism.
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Philosophical Arabesques
by Nikolai Bukharin with
an Introduction by Helena Sheehan
While awaiting his death,
Bukharin wrote prolifically. He considered Philosophical Arabesquesto be
the most important of his prison writings. In its pages, he covers the full
range of issues in Marxist philosophy—the sources of knowledge, the nature
of truth, freedom and necessity, the relationship of Hegelian and Marxist
dialectic. The project constitutes a defense of the genuine legacy of
Lenin’s Marxism against the use of his memory to legitimate totalitarian
power.
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 Pox Americana:
Exposing the American
Empire edited by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney
This volume brings
together the work of leading Marxist analysts of imperialism to examine the
burning question of our time—the nature and prospects of the U.S. imperial
project currently being given shape by war and occupation in the Middle
East.
“Expertly
co-edited by John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, … Noam Chomsky,
Barbara Epstein, and many more learned contributors discuss U.S. imperialism
throughout history …. A highly sober accounting….”
— Paul T. Vogel, THE MIDWEST BOOK
REVIEW
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China and
Socialism:
Market Reforms and Class Struggle by Martin Hart-Landsberg and Paul
Burkett
Hart-Landsberg and
Burkett's China and Socialism argues that market reforms in China are
leading inexorably toward a capitalist and foreign-dominated development path,
with enormous social and political costs, both domestically and
internationally. The rapid economic growth that accompanied these market
reforms have not been due to efficiency gains, but rather to deliberate erosion
of the infrastructure that made possible a remarkable degree of equality. The
transition to the market has been based on rising unemployment, intensified
exploitation, declining health and education services, exploding government
debt, and unstable prices.
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The
Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of
the World by Samir Amin
Samir Amin's ambitious
new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through
military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain
features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous form. Where
European political culture since the French Revolution has given a central
place to values of equality, the American state has developed to serve the
interests of capital alone, and is now exporting this model throughout the
world. American imperialism, Amin argues, will be far more barbaric than
earlier forms, pillaging natural resources and destroying the lives of the
poor.
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Toward an Open Tomb:
The Crisis of Israeli
Society by Michel Warschawski
The question of the
future direction of Israeli society is critical for the whole array of
conflicts in the Middle East, and hence for the global order. Michel
Warschawski writes with an insider's understanding of Israel, integrating
political analysis, personal anecdote and a powerful moral vision. Toward an
Open Tomb reveals the horror of the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian
territory while focusing mainly on the effects on the occupiers
themselves.
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The Rosa Luxemburg
Reader edited by
Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson
The Rosa Luxemburg
Readeris the definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings in
English translation. Unlike previous publications of her work from the early
1970s, this volume includes substantial extracts from her major economic
writings—above all, The Accumulation of Capital(1913)—and from
her political writings, including Reform or Revolution(1898), the
Junius Pamphlet (1916), and The Russian Revolution (1918).
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The Postmodern Prince:
Critical Theory, Left
Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject by John Sanbonmatsu
“In a well-argued,
often insightful book, Sanbonmatsu traces the rise of postmodern theory to the
‘expressivist’ politics of the New Left; he shows that the postmodern
attempt to promote differences and question notions of universality has
undercut the possibility of a unified radical movement. Going back to the work
of Antonio Gramsci, the author argues for the need to develop a theory of a
‘postmodern prince,’ one that assumes unity and difference by
squarely lodging its analysis in the experiential realm where solidarity can
arise. In the process of such an argument, Sanbonmatsu admirably explicates the
problems associated with postmodern theory, particularly the work of Michel
Foucault, and clearly lays out the relevant arguments associated with
Gramsci’s theory … Highly recommended.”— B.J. MacDONALD, CHOICE, Current Reviews for
Academic Libraries
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Eastern
Cauldron: Islam,
Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq in a Marxist Mirror by Gilbert Achcar
The essays collected in
Eastern Cauldron describe and explain the resurgence of Islamic
fundamentalism, the fate of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and its
aftermath, and above all the Palestinian conflict—in which the regional
stakes are so dramatically embodied and contested. Achcar analyzes the social
bases, strategies and tactics of PLO, Hizbollah, Israel and the United States.
In an extended introductory essay reflecting on the aftermath of the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, Achcar integrates these analyses in a major new account of
the strategy of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East and its prospects.
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Behind the Invasion of Iraq
by The Research Unit for
Political Economy
“Behind the
Invasion of Iraq . . . synthesizes the seemingly disparate threads of the
US war drive in a blistering indictment of American foreign policy . . . The
effect is of puzzle pieces clicking into
place.”—Counterpunch
Behind the
Invasion of Iraq exposes the idea that war will bring democracy to the
middle East as so much propaganda. In a context where so many rulers are
themselves clients of the United States, the war is aimed not at the rulers but
at the masses of ordinary people whose hostility to imperialism has not been
broken even by corrupt and autocratic rulers. This book describes the remaking
of global power with a truly global awareness of what is at stake.
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