Capitalism's War on Life from Palestine to the Burning Planet
Taking the ongoing genocide in Palestine as a point of departure, The Exterminating Empire traces capital's centuries-long war against life itself. From the slave plantations and scorched-earth campaigns of early colonialism, to Vietnam, Haiti, Iraq, and today's climate apartheid, Chris Kaspar de Ploeg shows that, not only has exterminatory ......
During the interwar years, as the USSR was emerging as a formidable new power and the United States was asserting its final independence from Europe, Russian art began to appear in the United States, supported by the influx of emigres escaping revolutionary turmoil. While revolutionary Russia was viewed with trepidation from across the Atlantic, ......
During the interwar years, as the USSR was emerging as a formidable new power and the United States was asserting its final independence from Europe, Russian art began to appear in the United States, supported by the influx of emigres escaping revolutionary turmoil. While revolutionary Russia was viewed with trepidation from across the Atlantic, ......
What is neoliberalism transforming into? This year's Socialist Register identifies gaps in Marxist state theory by examining the ongoing, differentiated development of capitalism, from counter-revolutions in public finance and central banking, to changing economic policies under globalizing forms of contemporary fascism and trade in the midst of ......
Socialism, Zionism, and Antisemitism from 1892 to 1992
Alessandra Tarquini, an expert in Italian Fascism, untangles the complicated relationship between the Italian Left and Jews since the late nineteenth century. Due largely to indifference, and sometimes to antisemitism, Italian leftists consistently overlooked Jews in their visions for a collectivist future. Yet, from the birth of the Socialist ......
Like an autoimmune disease that attacks the body it dwells in, capitalism is tearing apart the very planet that feeds it. Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism's Assault on the Earth System, builds on Karl Marx's insight that while capitalism is dependent on the natural world, it is also waging war on the natural systems that sustain life on Earth. ......
The secret life of a Palestinian Communist activist during the rise of World War II. In the public eye, Najati Sidqi was known as a journalist and writer, a translator of Russian classics, and an outspoken opponent of Nazism. However, Sidqi concealed a critical component of his life from the world and his family. He was an underground activist ......