Volume 52, Number 2
June 2000
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THE MONTH The twentieth century came to a close in an atmosphere astonishingly reminiscent of that which had presided over its birth—the "belle époque" (and it was beautiful, at least for capital). The bourgeois choir of the European powers, the United States, and Japan (which I will call here "the triad" and which, by 1910, constituted a distinct group) were singing hymns to the glory of their definitive triumph. The working classes of the center were no longer the "dangerous classes" they had been during the nineteenth century and the other peoples of the world were called upon to accept the "civilizing mission" of the West. School Violence: A Question of Place On February 29, 2000, a first grader in the Buell Elementary School in Flint took a semi-automatic rifle to school and fatally shot his classmate, six-year-old Kayla Rolland. Since then, there have been countless stories about the tragedy in the media. Those I have read or heard have focused on the chaos in the boy's family and/or guns in the home and community. All have avoided saying that Buell School is in Flint. Instead they have located it in "Mt. Morris Township, somewhere near Flint." The Threat of Fascism
in Austria For the first time since the Second World War, the extreme right is a major component in a national European government.1 The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has half of the posts and the Deputy Chancellorship in its coalition with the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP), sworn in on February 4, 2000. The only consistent features of FPÖ politics since 1986 have been racism and the determination of Jörg Haider, its most prominent figure, to take power in Austria. Haider is best known for his favorable comments about Nazi Germany, the honorable nature of members of the SS, and the role of the German army under Hitler in defending civilization. Alienation in American Society This lecture was presented to a student conference on "Socialism in America" held at Yale University in 1964. It was later issued as a pamphlet by Monthly Review Press, but has been out of print for many years. It may seem odd to reissue it here, since the intervening decades have seen the publication of numerous important works on this same subject, including in the early 1970s such landmark studies as István Mészáros' Marx's Theory of Alienation and Bertell Ollman's Alienation. But Pappenheim's approach was distinctive, not only because of its accessibility, but because it concentrated from beginning to end on the link between Marx's concepts of alienation and exploitation. Rather than using Marx's notion of alienation as the basis for an abstract humanism divorced from concrete struggle, and as a means of avoiding Marx's more developed political-economic critique of capitalism—as too many have done—Pappenheim stresses the close, indeed inextricable, relationship between a world of alienation and a world of exploitation.
BOOK
REVIEW A Review of The Malthus Factor by Eric B. Ross |
f e a t u r e d “Sol Dollinger's remembrance of
UAW's early days are juicy and provocative. His recall of those goofy
internecine political battles within the union is tragic-comic. Yet they,
united even though hollering at each other, made GM, Ford, et al, recognize the
union. The sequence involving Genora Johnson Dollinger, the heroine of the 1937
sit-down strike, is deeply moving and inspiring.”
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“A bold, exciting
interpretation of the historical background and context of Marx's ecological
thought and a fascinating exploration of environmental history. Should be of
interest to all who care about the fate of our ‘vulnerable planet.’
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e “This challenging and provocative
work reveals the significant dark side of U.S. foreign policy toward
Korea.” |
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