[Marxism] Bill DiFazio

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The Marxist sociologist, William DiFazio, died March 10th of 2020 at the age of 
72 from complications related to diabetes. I met Bill in 1975, when we were 
both students at the CUNY Graduate Center. We remained friends for the next 45 
years. 

 

Bill Difazio wrote three books:

Longshoremen: Community and Resistance On The Brooklyn Waterfront 1985, The 
Jobless Future (with Stanley Aronowitz) 1995, and Ordinary Poverty: A Little 
Food and Cold Shelter 2005.

He hosted a popular radio show, City Watch, on WBAI from 2000-2016, where he 
interviewed community activists as well as radical intellectuals. There is a 
Wikipedia page for Bill at: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_DiFazio

 

Bill contributed to a number of journals, including Social Text and Situations, 
where he served on the editorial board.  At the time of his death, he was 
writing a book to be called, Conversations in Diners: Ordinary People and The 
Crisis in Capitalism.

 

Bill DiFazio was a popular teacher at St. Johns in Queens, New York. He served 
as Chair of the Sociology Department at St. Johns for six years. He also 
volunteered at a food program run by St. Johns in Brooklyn for several years, 
where he did the field work for, Ordinary Poverty.  



Bill DiFazio is survived by his wife, Susan Heller, a Brooklyn artist, and his 
daughter, Liegia DiFazio, an attorney in Atlanta. 

 

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SAYING NO IS NOT ENOUGH by Naomi Klein. In her new book, Klein applies her 
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She focuses on the dangers represented by Trump's domestic and foreign policies 
and how we might resist the dangers he represents.She argues that Trump might 
very well create a crisis allowing the application of a shock doctrine to the 
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Does anyone know of a good discussion of Lukacs's THE ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL BEING 
in English? Only three of the eight chapters of Lukacs's last major 
philosophical work have been translated into English. These three chapters were 
published as three small books by the Merlin Press. The final three chapters of 
Lukacs's book: on Alienation, Ideology and The Social Reproduction of Society 
have not yet been translated into English. The three chapters which have been 
translated into English as separate books are on Hegel, Marx and Labor.I 
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The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in 
San Francisco, 1965-1975

By Mat Callahan PM Press

 

The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical re-examination of the 
interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. 
Author, musician, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan explores the dynamic 
links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone, the United Farm 
Workers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco 
Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the counterculture.

 

Callahan's meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the 
political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant 
subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original 
interviews, primary sources, and personal experiences, the author shows how the 
intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco, 
briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge.

 

A must-read for any musician, historian, or person who "was there" (or longed 
to have been), The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative, 
inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes 
a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist.

 He takes a studied approach, but with the eye of a revolutionary, describing 
the sociopolitical landscape that led to the explosion of popular music (rock, 
jazz, folk, R) coupled with the birth of several diverse radical movements 
during the golden 1965-1975 age of the Bay Area. Callahan comes at it from 
every angle imaginable (black power, anti-Vietnam War, the media, the New Left, 
feminism, sexual revolution-with the voice of authority backed up by interviews 
with those who lived it." -Pat Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and 
Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975

 

"All too often, people talk about the '60s without mentioning our music and the 
fun we had trying to smash the state and create a culture based upon love. Mat 
Callahan's book is a necessary corrective." -George Katsiaficas, author of The 
Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968

 

"Something very special took place in San Francisco in the Sixties, generating 
waves of social and aesthetic motion that still ricochet around this planet. 
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams takes a clear-eyed, politically engaged view 
that separates truth from propaganda. Grasping why the time became legendary 
and how society dealt with the challenges it created is what Explosion is 
about-and it accomplishes this critical task with intelligence and clarity." 
-Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the 
Grateful Dead

 

"In this landmark work, Mat Callahan painstakingly braids disparate threads of 
the rich tapestry of San Francisco-music, politics, race, culture. In this 
vast, panoramic portrait, Callahan digs out social/political undercurrents that 
have never been more thoroughly explored." -Joel Selvin, 

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political discourse from the ancient world to the present.



 

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Here is the publisher's blurb about Mat Callahan's  book:

 

The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in 
San Francisco, 1965-1975

By Mat Callahan PM Press

 

As the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates 
and celebrations of music, political movements, "flower power," "acid rock," 
and "hippies"; The Explosion of Deferred Dreams offers a critical 
re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San 
Francisco in the Sixties. Author, musician, and native San Franciscan Mat 
Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the 
Family Stone, the United Farm Workers and Santana, the Indian Occupation of 
Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and the New Left and the 
counterculture.

 

Callahan's meticulous, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the 
political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant 
subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original 
interviews, primary sources, and personal experiences, the author shows how the 
intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco, 
briefly, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge.

 

A must-read for any musician, historian, or person who "was there" (or longed 
to have been), The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative, 
inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes 
a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist.

 

Praise:

 

"Mat Callahan was a red diaper baby lucky to be attending a San Francisco high 
school during the 'Summer of Love.' He takes a studied approach, but with the 
eye of a revolutionary, describing the sociopolitical landscape that led to the 
explosion of popular music (rock, jazz, folk, R) coupled with the birth of 
several diverse radical movements during the golden 1965-1975 age of the Bay 
Area. Callahan comes at it from every angle imaginable (black power, 
anti-Vietnam War, the media, the New Left, feminism, sexual revolution-with the 
voice of authority backed up by interviews with those who lived it." -Pat 
Thomas, author of Listen, Whitey! The Sights and Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975

 

"All too often, people talk about the '60s without mentioning our music and the 
fun we had trying to smash the state and create a culture based upon love. Mat 
Callahan's book is a necessary corrective." -George Katsiaficas, author of The 
Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968

 

"Something very special took place in San Francisco in the Sixties, generating 
waves of social and aesthetic motion that still ricochet around this planet. 
The Explosion of Deferred Dreams takes a clear-eyed, politically engaged view 
that separates truth from propaganda. Grasping why the time became legendary 
and how society dealt with the challenges it created is what Explosion is 
about-and it accomplishes this critical task with intelligence and clarity." 
-Dennis McNally, author of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the 
Grateful Dead

 

"In this landmark work, Mat Callahan painstakingly braids disparate threads of 
the rich tapestry of San Francisco-music, politics, race, culture. In this 
vast, panoramic portrait, Callahan digs out social/political undercurrents that 
have never been more thoroughly explored." -Joel Selvin, Summer of Love: The 
Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild West

 

About the Author:

 

Mat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco, where he 
founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books, Sex, Death & 
the Angry Young Man, Testimony, and The Trouble with Music as well as the 
editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides 
in Bern, Switzerland.

 

Product Details:

 

Author: Mat Callahan

Publisher: PM Press

ISBN: 978-1-62963-231-5

Format: Paperback

Page count: 352

Subjects: History-San Francisco/Music-1960s/Cultural Studies





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Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
by 
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An exhilarating exploration into the utopias and dystopias that could develop 
from present society
Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of 
resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four 
Futures,
Frase imagines how this post-capitalist world might look, deploying the tools 
of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism,
rentism, socialism and exterminism might actually entail.

Could the current rise of real-life robocops usher in a world that 
resemblesEnder's Game? And sure, communism will bring an end to material 
scarcities
and inequalities of wealth-but there's no guarantee that social hierarchies, 
governed by an economy of "likes," wouldn't rise to take their place. A 
whirlwind
tour through science fiction, social theory and the new technologies already 
shaping our lives, Four Futures is a balance sheet of the socialisms we may
reach if a resurgent Left is successful, and the barbarisms we may be consigned 
to if those movements fail.

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Samir Amin: RUSSIA: THE LONG TRANSITION

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Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort 
to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist economist

Samir Amin, the great upheaval that once produced the Soviet Union also 
produced a movement away from capitalism-a long transition that continues today.

In seven concise, provocative chapters, Amin deftly examines the trajectory of 
Russian capitalism, the Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Soviet

Union, the possible future of Russia-and, by extension, the future of socialism 
itself.

 

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http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/modernasprak

 

 

 

David Lansky, The Cutting Edge. Xlibris, 2013. ISBN-978-1-4931-2127-4. 200 
pages. 

 

 

Between 1945 and 1964, the private sector and federal government joined forces 
to create the dispersed geographies and infrastructures responsible for 
facilitating what would later be known as the "American way of life." This 
period would see a rise in individual automobile ownership, a massive expansion 
of the freeway systems and suburbs, as well as a shift in American cultural 
ethos towards what Michel Foucault describes in The Birth of Biopolitics as 
"entrepreneurial life." Subsequently, the newly emerging white middleclass 
began envisioning themselves as individual entrepreneurs, whose homes in the 
suburbs and automobiles became both markers of success and necessities of life. 
Furthermore, this new emphasis on entrepreneurial life would see attitudes 
towards education shift to meet the logic of a post-war economy driven by 
capital. Rather than a lifelong journey of self- discovery or even a luxury for 
a privileged few, higher education became a way to mass-produce the next genera
 tion of homo economicus-whose lifestyle would then become dependent on the 
continued existence of suburbs, freeways, strip-malls, commodities and cheap 
energies. 

The Cutting Edge is a satirical epistolary novel about academia and college 
life, heavily marked by the culturally and ecologically transformative period 
described above. Written by David Lansky, the novel tells the story of an 
idealistic sociology professor named Fred Snyder, who mourns the death of 
universities as centers of critique almost as much as he despises the suburbs, 
strip-malls and consumer culture he holds responsible for it. Snyder's 
university of Old Windsor is a caricature of what happens when idealism is 
replaced by utilitarianism, and intellectual life is subsumed by the 
commodifying logic of capital. With its protagonist's fixations on suburban 
sprawl, declining academic standards, rising tuition fees, and 1984-esque 
campus security systems, The Cutting Edge portrays a miniature Orwellian 
nightmare not too far removed from today's headlines. 

The novel is divided into two main parts, the first being the alleged "College 
Essays of Jenny Delight," and the second a memoir entitled "Bill of Sale," 
supposedly written by Fred Snyder himself. While "The College Essays of Jenny 
Delight" claim to be written by a student who finds a source of inspiration in 
the unconventional methods and ideas of her professor, it is suggested in the 
introduction (allegedly written by a reference librarian/ colleague of Snyder's 
named Jillian Spamaro) that they were somehow written by the deceased Snyder 
and left in the library after his murder at the hands of a deranged student. 

Certainly the style and language employed in "The College Essays of Jenny 
Delight" suggest that they are intended to appear as if they were written by an 
older, slightly out-of-touch individual attempting to impersonate a hip young 
woman-"I wonder if Sociology professors chill out when we students are not 
around. I wonder if my Sociology Professor chills with his homies like 
professor Bluestone, Keller, Zooman or Paradoxo" (32)-and this makes for both a 
humorous and disconcerting read. Furthermore, much of the subject matter 
comprising Jenny's essays seems to be heavily influenced by Snyder's own 
preoccupations and idiosyncrasies, however, if we are to accept that Snyder is 
meant to be the actual author, we have to also entertain the unlikely 
possibility that he somehow predicted his own death.

Regardless of who-David Lansky/Fred Snyder/Jillian Spamaro/Jenny Delight-we are 
expected to believe wrote the first section, Jenny's essays paint a very 
complex portrait of university culture and politics, while also introducing 
readers to the fascinating world-view of her professor. 

Jenny is a quick-witted, starry-eyed student from the working class, who at 
times seems torn between the radicalism of her professor and the "mall culture" 
they have both been interpellated by. Many of Jenny's friends and classmates 
appear to be preoccupied with achieving the American Dream, but face an 
unenviable future of job insecurity and endless debt-brought on, in part, by 
overly expensive college tuitions and declining educational standards. 

Jenny sets Snyder up as an authentic radical intellectual, while the vast 
majority of his colleagues appear to be petty charlatans who compromised their 
ideals long 

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Against the Current



May/June 2016, No. 182



Michael E. Brown

block quote

The Cutting Edge

By David Lansky (George Snedeker)

Xlibris LLC, 2014 (200 pages). 

 

THIS SATIRICAL NOVEL brings to mind our present reality: It may be that what is 
happening to universities around the country is so bold in its neoliberal

modeling of the corporate enterprise, and its neoconservative tendency to 
condemn anything remotely connected to critical thinking, that it can only be

made comprehensible in a work of fiction.

 

This has partly to do with the cultural marginalization of education itself in 
favor of the STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Math) curriculum and 
consequent

administrative demands that all disciplines establish quantitative, computable 
standards for judging academic performance. Dissenting voices are less likely

to be heard, and critical scholars are increasingly forced to attempt to 
recover a sense of the importance of critical work within the same 
organizational

forms that reject it - perhaps in the hope of being able at least to argue 
against the contexts and powers that sustain those forms.

 

The Cutting Edge is a compelling and original work that brings these and other 
aspects of academic life together as a subtext to the life and times of

its main characters. Its originality lies in the ways in which what academics 
do reveals the uncertainty of their desires and the limitations they accept

and eventually take for granted. It also lies in the form of this novel, 
largely composed of a series of revelatory but hopeful "essays" by a student at

Old Windsor, Jenny Delight, that comment on campus life with special regard to 
the admirable wisdom of "our sociology professor."

 

One of the many pleasures of this book lies in the humor that emerges from the 
mix of innocence and guile in Jenny's writing - with consequent alternations

of confusion and idealism - and the inconsistency of college life with whatever 
might be anticipated after graduation. On the one hand, Jenny knows that

life is not like college, yet she hopes for a future that allows her to enjoy 
the fruits of having learned that the good life requires living "outside

the box."

 

Jenny finds in her sociology professor an ideal model, despite the 
institutional limits to every ideal she stumbles on during her participation in 
the

student life committee.

 

Her first essay, entitled "Why I Love Old Windsor," begins with a passionate 
reference to Professor Fred Snyder: "Let me get down to the point. I love

my Sociology Professor because he is so cool that he chills me down to the 
bone. Every time I go to his class, I get moved to inspiration by something

he says. He's what you call 'outside the box.' And I'm the kind of student who 
hates the boxes folks keep their minds locked up in." (23)

 

Nevertheless, a certain irony runs through Jenny's essays. Consider the way in 
which she resolves her ambivalence about attending college: "Well, it's

back to my studying. It's midterm time and I have to keep my GPA up so I can 
get into law school and get rich and keep my ass out of prison. I've also

got to go to the Broadway Mall to buy some more Makedown to keep the boys hot 
for me. Well, as I always tell anyone who'll ever listen: 'you have to keep

keeping on. It's a hard road we students have to travel.'" (24)

 

Ambiguities and Moral Hazards

 

For Jenny, even the most serious of events at Old Windsor must be approached to 
some extent ironically, as if she is constantly reflecting on the ambiguity

of her student existence even as she presents those events as if they had a 
life of their own. The book also incorporates this attitude in Professor 
Snyder's

autobiographical essay and in remarks by other teachers and administrators.

 

For faculty, academic life is portrayed in part as a pretense that most 
professors can tolerate only in a persistent attitude of self-conscious irony 
and

occasional self-denigration. For the reader, there is another source of irony. 
The novel never settles the identities of the main characters, which raises

the difficult question of whether it is possible to imagine academic life being 
known from within.

 

Snyder, who is eventually murdered by an insane student, is a semi-tragic 
protagonist who represents the possibility of being authentic in the midst of

so many temptations toward inauthenticity. The fact that David Lansky is a 
pseudonym for the book's author, himself a prominent critical theorist, raises

the question of exactly who or what "Snyder's" own narrative voice represents.

 

The identity of Jenny herself ultimately comes 

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David Laibman, Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at Brooklyn College and the 
Graduate School, City University of New York, will discuss his new book Passion 
and Patience: society, history, and revolutionary vision (International 
Publishers, 2015) at the Tamiment Library on October 20, 2015 at 6:00 PM - 8:00 
PM. 




 On Passion and Patience:

"Over more than two decades his editorials in Science & Society, which are this 
book's raw materials, have taken facts that we all knew and projected them 
against a broader canvass of human history invisible to almost everyone." Yanis 
Varoufakis (ex-Minister of Finance of Greece, 2015) 

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for a reviewer for a new book on the role of 
the CFR in the promotion of neoliberal policies. The book is Lawrence Shoup's 
WALL STREET'S THINK TANK, Monthly review Press. This book is a concrete study 
of the role of the CFR in the formulation of ruling class political policies 
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Call for Papers

The Energy Transition: Making Another World Possible!

A Special Issue of Socialism and Democracy 

Most environmentalists and progressives accept the need for a rapid transition 
to a post-Carbon, clean-energy future. Moreover, as one writer has suggested, 
"the conditions for carrying out such a [transition] are to a large extent 
already present" and that these consist "partly of devices, partly of 
scientific knowledge, and partly of organizational experience." Reflecting 
these conditions, Socialism and Democracy is organizing a Special Issue on the 
Energy Transition with an emphasis on renewable energy including wind, solar, 
and biomass.  We are seeking two types of articles: one on key renewable 
technologies that are currently available, and a second type reviewing actual 
campaigns to bring about the energy transition. (For example, these campaigns 
could introduce/support public ownership and control over utilities; or be 
campaigns to engage working class, indigenous and environmental justice 
constituencies with transformational projects.) We invite a broad diversity of 
insights 
 in these articles. The volume will also be a combination of a primer and a 
handbook for activists.

The mandate to authors for articles is to not only examine the technical and 
environmental viability of technologies and campaigns; but to also uncover 
their impact on social organization (e.g. the building of cooperatives, 
publically-owned entities, worker-controlled enterprises, decentralized 
government, etc.) and on social hierarchies (including especially class, 
race/nationality, gender, and region). 

Typical Article: 5,000 - 9.000 words   Typical Book Review: 800 
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Abstract Submission: Please email edit...@energytransition.info and include 
your postal address, a short biographical note, and an abstract of no more than 
150 words. If you are submitting a book review, please include full 
bibliographic information and a sentence or two on why you think the book is 
important to the conversation on energy transition.

Article Deadline: January 15, 2015 Book Review Deadline: 
February 19, 2015

Publication Date: July 2016

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scope; its writers include activists, independent scholars, and academics. 
Aimed at showcasing the growing relevance and vitality of socialist thought, 
the journal brings together the worlds of scholarship and activism by 
connecting conversations about theory, strategy, and practice.

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Cathy Bergin,  "BITTER WITH THE PAST BUT SWEET WITH THE DREAM": 

COMMUNISM IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGINARY: 

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY FROM  1940-52.



The primary focus of the analysis of this book is LONELY CRUSADE, NATIVE SON 
and INVISIBLE MAN. The author focuses on how these novels represent the 
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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review:
 

 

Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps Eds., RADICALS IN AMERICA, Cambridge 
University Press, 2015. If you are interested in reviewing this book, contact 
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Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who 
pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the nation.

Written with clarity and verve, Radicals in America shows how radical leftists, 
while often marginal or ostracized, could assume a catalytic role as effective

organizers in mass movements, fostering the imagination of alternative futures. 
Beginning with the Second World War, Radicals in America extends all the

way down to the present, making it the first comprehensive history of 
radicalism to reach beyond the sixties. From the Communist Party and the Black 
Panther

Party for Self-Defense, its coverage extends to the Battle of Seattle and 
Occupy Wall Street. Each chapter begins with a particular life story, including

a Harlem woman deported in the McCarthy era, a gay Japanese-American opponent 
of the Vietnam War, and a Native American environmentalist, vignettes that

bring to life the personal within the political.

 

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book about literary modernism and the role of historical narratives. . 

Seamus O'Malley, MAKING HISTORY NEW: MODERNISM AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE,
Oxford University Press, 2015.


The relationship between history and the modernist novel is central to the
argument of this book.  Through new readings of Conrad's NOSTROMO, Rebecca
West's RETURN OF THE SOLDIER and her BLACK SHEEP AND THE GREY FALCON, and
Ford Madox Ford's novels about WWI like THE GOOD SOLDIER, the author shows
that the modernist historians were aware of the pitfalls of narrative, but
were also driven by an ethical imperative to relate the past in the forms
of stories, and so employed modernist techniques to both signal the past
but also stage the difficulties of the recreation of history in language.

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review: THE HIDDEN STRUCTURE 
OF VIOLENCE by Prilisuck and Rountree, Monthly Review. This book presents a 
comprehensive approach to the study of global violence, covering everything 
from poverty to war and neo-liberal corporate power. 

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[Marxism] Radical Literary magazine

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Home Planet News is a radical literary magazine available online at:
http://homeplanetnews.org/AOnLine.html


The second online issue of HPN contains essays, book reviews and poetry.This 
issue has an essay by me about the anarchist intellectual, Arnold Sachar. 
Several of Arnie's writings can be found online if you just Google his name.   

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[Marxism] Book about Trotsky

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I am still looking for someone to review Paul Le Blanc's Trotsky. This book 
focuses on the life of Trotsky and the impact of his ideas on the world 
socialist movement. The book is short and clearly written.

We will need the review by September 1. 

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for reviewers for two books:
1. Paul Le Blanc, Trotsky, U. of Chicago Prs. This book presents a balanced 
treatment of the political importance of Trotsky to the Russian Revolution and 
to the world socialist movement. 

2. Stephen Chambers, No God But  Gain, Verso. This book presents an analysis of 
Cuba's role in the slave trade in the United States. The role of the Monroe 
Doctrine is central to Chambers's historical treatment of the illegal slave 
trade after 1808. 

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offline.Sample reviews can be found at www.sdonline.org.  

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Does anyone have an opinion of Paul Le Blanc's recent book: Trotsky? If so, 
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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review the following book: 
KNOWLEDGE LTD by Randy Martin.

Randy Martin

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Knowledge LTD is the summa of Randy Martin's scholarship. It brings together 
his vast knowledge of politics, policy, and programming; his devoted study

of political economy; and his long and deep involvement in cultural studies, 
seen here through the scrim of dance in order to show the derivative as the

social logic of our times. Knowledge LTD is a stunning empirical endeavor-what 
all sociologists, if not all social scientists, should now take as a starting

point for studying the social. 

-Patricia Ticineto Clough, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Queens 
College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author

of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology

block quote end

 

Catastrophes ranging from the travesties of financial markets and the explosion 
of the Deepwater Horizon oil well to the tsunami that struck northern Japan

and the levees breaking in New Orleans are examples of the limits of knowledge. 
Author Randy Martin insists that the expertise erected to prevent these

natural and social disasters failed in each case. 

 

In Knowledge LTD, Martin explores how both the limits of knowledge and the 
social constructions of culture reflect the way we organize social life in the

face of disasters and their aftermath. He examines this crisis of knowledge as 
well as the social movements that rose up in its wake. Martin not only treats

derivatives as financial contracts for pricing risk, but also shows how the 
derivative works in economic terms, where the very unity of the economy is

undone. 

 

Knowledge LTD ultimately points to a more comprehensive reordering of the once 
separate spheres of economy, polity, and culture. Martin provides a new

way of understanding the social significance of the all-pervasive derivative 
logic. 

 

 

This book is third volume of Martin's Marxist study of financialization.Write 
to me if you would like to review this important book.

 

 

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[Marxism] misusing civility

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The May 4th issue of The Nation has a very good article by Joan Scott about how 
college administrations are misusing the concept of civility to control radical 
faculty. She gives several clear examples of this misuse of power. Some faculty 
members buy into this logic. Civility is being used to limit academic freedom 
including the denial of tenure. This article is a talk Scott gave at the AAUP 
meeting.Some of the cases are shocking to say the least! 

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[Marxism] reviewer wanted

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I am still looking for someone to review a new and comprehensive biography of 
Lenin. I thought that this was something many people would be interested to 
do.Here is the basic info about the book. 
RECONSTRUCTING LENIN by Thamas Krausz, MR Press. 

 

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is one of the most important and influential figures of 
the twentieth century. His life and work are crucial to any understanding of 
modern history and the socialist movement.   After the fall of the Soviet Union 
and actually-existing socialism, it is possible to consider Lenin afresh, 
with sober senses trained on his historical context and how it shaped his 
theoretical and political contributions. Reconstructing Lenin, four decades in 
the making and now available in English for the first time, is an attempt to do 
just that.

Tamás Krausz, an esteemed Hungarian scholar writing in the tradition of György 
Lukács, Ferenc Tokei, and István Mészáros, makes a major contribution to a 
growing field of contemporary Lenin studies. This rich and penetrating account 
reveals Lenin busy at the work of revolution, his thought shaped by immediate 
political events but never straying far from a coherent theoretical 
perspective. Krausz balances detailed descriptions of Lenin's time and place 
with lucid explications of his intellectual development, covering a range of 
topics like war and revolution, dictatorship and democracy, socialism and 
utopianism. Reconstructing Lenin will change the way you look at a man and a 
movement; it will also introduce the English-speaking world to a profound 
radical scholar.

A work of exemplary scholarship, written with penetrating insights and 
steadfast commitment. With richly documented attention to detail it illuminates 
the formation and much disputed impact of Lenin's immense lifework in their 
dynamic historical setting, highlighting at the same time their enduring 
significance for the prospects of socialist developments.

-István Mészáros, author, Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness and 
Beyond Capital

Tamás Krausz is Professor of Russian History at the Eötvös Loránd University of 
Sciences in Budapest, and Head of the Department of Eastern European Studies. 
One of the best-known radical intellectuals and political activists in Hungary, 
he has published widely throughout the world and is the President of the 
Editorial Board of Eszmélet, the sole Marxist theoretical and political 
quarterly in Hungary, founded in 1989.

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[Marxism] Perry Anderson book

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I am looking for someone to review AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND ITS THINKERS 
by Perry Anderson for Socialism and Democracy: www.sdonline.org
Contact me offline if you want the job. The book is Anderson's NLR essays in 
book form. 

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[Marxism] mass incarceration

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The journal Socialism and Democracy presents

its special issue on Mass Incarceration,

edited by Mumia Abu-Jamal  Johanna Fernández

 

 

Nothing to Lose But Our Chains:

 

Black Resistance and the Roots of Mass Incarceration

 

 

Speakers

 

Sekuo Odinga, Recently Released Political Prisoner

 

Asha Ransby-Sporn, Black Youth Project 100

 

Laura Whitehorn, Former Political Prisoner

 

Nyle Fort, Newark-Based Youth Organizer  Writer

 

déqui kioni-sadiki, Educator  Activist

 

 

 

Friday March 20, 2015

 

Malcolm X  Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

3940 Broadway at 165th Street

 

Reception  Journal Signing 6-7PM

Panel Discussion begins promptly at 7PM

 
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[Marxism] important event

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The journal Socialism and Democracy presents

its special issue on Mass Incarceration,

edited by Mumia Abu-Jamal  Johanna Fernández

 

 

Nothing to Lose But Our Chains:

 

Black Resistance and the Roots of Mass Incarceration

 

 

Speakers

 

Sekou Odinga, Recently Released Political Prisoner

 

Arielle Newton, Black Lives Matter

 

Laura Whitehorn, Former Political Prisoner

 

Nyle Fort, Newark-Based Youth Organizer  Writer

 

déqui kioni-sadiki, Educator  Activist

 

 

 

Friday March 20, 2015

 

Malcolm X  Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center

3940 Broadway at 165th Street

 

Reception  Journal Signing 6-7PM

Panel Discussion begins Promptly at 7PM

 
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[Marxism] book for review

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I am the book review editor for the journal, Socialism and Democracy: 
www.sdonline.org. 

 

I am looking for someone to review: GLOBALIZATION AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL 
ECONOMY by Lucia Pradella, Routledge, 2015. This book presents a history and 
critique of political economy as well as  the analysis of capitalism as a 
global system. Pradella traces the development of political economy from its 
founding figures like Smith and Ricardo to Hegel and Marx. She makes an 
interesting use of Marx's unpublished Notebooks in her analysis of the 
relationship among global capitalism, the emergence of the discipline of 
political economy and world system theory. The critique of Euro-centrism plays 
a key role in this very important book. 

 

If you are interested in doing the review of this book, send a sample review 
you have written to me:  george.snede...@verizon.net Paste the review into a 
message. Please do not send attachments.

 

George Snedeker

 

 
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[Marxism] sociologists can apply

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This is also open to sociologists. Marx did not recognize academic disciplines!

PLEASE ANNOUNCE, POST, AND CIRCULATE TO GRADUATE STUDENTS


The Marxist Literary Group is pleased to announce the sixteenth annual Michael 
Sprinker Graduate Writing Competition, established to remember and further 
Michael's commitment to Marxist intellectual work and to graduate teaching and 
students.  The award recognizes an essay or dissertation chapter that engages 
with Marxist theory, scholarship, pedagogy, and/or activism.  Submissions will 
be judged by a committee of the MLG.  The winner receives a prize of $500 and 
automatic entry of the essay into the peer review process for the MLG's journal 
Mediations.

The winner will be announced at the MLG's annual Institute on Culture and 
Society, to be held at Georgetown University, June 24-28, 2015.  For further 
information on the Institute, see mlg.eserver.org, or send questions to 
mlgics2...@gmail.com.

Any and all current graduate students are eligible, although submissions must 
be in English.  Membership in the MLG is recommended but not required.  Essays 
or chapters must be unpublished but finished work, and must be an absolute 
maximum of 8000 words, including notes and/or works cited.  Please include 
name, mailing address, phone number, and email address on a separate cover 
sheet.  The writer's name should not appear on the essay itself.

Deadline: Monday, May 18, 2015.  Please send your documents as attachments in 
Word (no pdfs, please) to Kevin Floyd at kfl...@kent.edu, and send any 
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[Marxism] Fw: [RPA-LIST] CFP Global Justice: Radical Perspectives

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Listers may find this of interest. 
GS
- Original Message - 
From: Maeve McKeown 
To: rpa-l...@listserv.utk.edu 
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 12:42 PM
Subject: [RPA-LIST] CFP Global Justice: Radical Perspectives


CFP: “Global Justice: Radical Perspectives”

Special Issue of Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric

Edited by Maeve McKeown (Frankfurt) and Alasia Nuti (Cambridge)



The Global Justice debate is, for the most part, a liberal debate. For four 
decades, theorists have pondered over the exact scope of liberal distributive 
justice and the precise content of our duties.  This special issue aims to take 
a step back and askwhether the liberal framework is the best one to address the 
question of injustice at the global level to begin with. In particular, it aims 
to analyse whether the liberal paradigm lacks the conceptual tools fully to 
understand, critique and remedy global injustices.

Consider the global distribution of wealth. According to the most recent OXFAM 
report, 1% of the world’s population control half of global wealth, and by 
2016, they are predicted to hold more wealth than the 99%. This is not simply a 
question of unequal distributions across individuals, but also one ofclass. 
Liberal theory seeks to redress this state of affairs through global 
redistribution. But is it enough to call for redistribution of wealth and 
resources, or must we interrogate the underlying power relations first? What 
are the preconditions for redistribution? Are capitalist economic relations 
that create and sustain this systemsufficiently exposed or critiqued? Can 
global justice be achieved without challenging them first?

Alternatively, consider how the “global elite” and the “global poor” are 
largely constituted by members of already advantaged and disadvantaged groups. 
For instance, the UNDP suggests that women own 1% of global wealth. Extreme 
poverty mainly exists in the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and 
Asia, i.e. people of colour, and former colonized peoples, are more likely to 
suffer from it. People with disabilities are also more likely to live in 
poverty. Gender, race, ability and sexuality also affect distributions amongst 
the world’s poorest countries, and amongst those experiencing poverty in OECD 
countries. Moreover, does status inequality matter because it affects 
distributions of resources or because it is form of global injustice in and of 
itself? 

This special issue asks whether the liberal framework, which arguably has not 
sufficiently and/or systematically addressed structural issues of class, power 
and recognition, actually lacks the conceptual resources to do so. It aims to 
understand whethermore radical approaches can help us to cast light on what 
global injustice actually is and what we should do about it.  What can 
feminist, post-colonial, Marxist, queer theory, disability studies, critical 
race theory, recognition theory, radical democratic and post-development 
approaches tell us about global justice, if anything? Do identity, history, 
gender, race and power matter to global justice? Can we incorporate these 
critical perspectives into the existing debates? Or must we reconfigure what 
constitutes global justice or injustice if we are to make sense of the 
real-world inequities that motivate critical theorists and social movements?

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

·  What is global (in)justice?

·  Liberalism vs. radical approaches to global justice theory

·  Class

·  Intersectionality

·  Power

·  Specific global justice issues or approaches related to feminism, 
post-colonialism, queer theory, disability theory, critical race theory, 
recognition theory, and radical democratic and post-development approaches.



Deadline for submission: August 31 2015

Information on the manuscript presentation can be accessed here; Information on 
the journal Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric here.

Papers should be submitted through the journal’s electronic submission system.

For queries, please contact Maeve McKeown(mcke...@em.uni-frankfurt.de) or 
Alasia Nuti (an...@cam.ac.uk)

Editors:

Maeve McKeown (Justitia Amplificata, University of Frankfurt)

Alasia Nuti (Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge)









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[Marxism] book for review

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I am looking for someone to review:
Lucia Pradella's GLOBALIZATION AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. This book 
presents a complex analysis of the process of capitalist globalization from 
mercantilism to the present. The analysis of the book depends heavily on Marx's 
unpublished notebooks, now only available in the MEGA, German edition of the 
works of Marx and Engels. 
If you want to do the review of this book, paste a review you have written into 
a message and send it to me at george.snede...@verizon.net
For sample reviews, go to www.sdonline.org.

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[Marxism] City Watch radio Show on Mass Incarceration; Randy Martin died.

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One of the editors of the special issue of Socialism and Democracy on mass 
incarceration will be interviewed on WBAI.
I am sorry to report that the Marxist scholar and  activist, Randy Martin has 
died after a long illness. Some of you have known Randy personally. His recent 
work on financialization has broken new ground.Randy had published a dozen 
books on a range of important topics. He will be remembered by many as a 
special human being. I will miss him greatly.. Randy died Wednesday night. 
George 

WBAI 99.5FM


We are very Sorry about the passing of activist, dancer, scholar and friend 
Randy Martin.
  Bill's CityWATCH Jan. 31, 2015 10-11AM WBAI 99.5FM

Host: Bill
DiFazio 718-389-1018 (show)
917-750-8653 (Emergency)
GUEST:JOHANNA FERNANDEZ, EDITOR AND AUTHOR OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE OF 
SOCIALISM AND DEMOCRACY,NOVEMBER 2014.

THE ROOTS OF MASS INCARCERATION IN THE U/S: LOCKING UP BLACK 
DISSIDENTS AND PUNISHING THE POOR.
Johanna Fernandez Phone: 

 Opening music:Sonny Rollins. East 
   Broadway Rundown
 
Station Break 10:30
Music:  JERRY BUTLER AND THE IMPRESSIONS, FOR YOUR PRECIOUS LOVE.
 
Guest: Michael Pelias, Syriza, New York.  Syriza Takes Power in 
Greece,and leads the battle against global austerity
Closing: Illinois Jacquet, Leo Parker, Bottoms Up!. 
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I am looking for someone to review a special issue of Science and Society on 
Anarchism. The special issue will be reviewed as if it were a book. 

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[Marxism] new book for review

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review: 
Radical Theatrics by Craig Peariso. If you are interested in reviewing this 
book , please write to me at george.snede...@verizon.net Here is a Blurb on the 
book and some information about its author:



In Radical Theatrics,  Craig Peariso argues that the over-the-top antics of the 
1960s were far more than just the spontaneous actions of a self-indulgent 
radical impulse. Instead, he shows that  they were well-considered aesthetic 
and political responses to a jaded cultural climate in which an unreflective 
tolerance masked an unwillingness to engage with challenging ideas. Through 
innovative analysis that links political protest to the art of contemporaries 
such as Andy Warhol, Peariso reveals how the put-on - the signature activist 
performance of the radical left - ended up becoming a valuable American 
political practice, one that continues to influence contemporary radicals such 
as Occupy Wall Street. 

Craig Peariso is assistant professor of art history at Boise State University. 





George Snedeker

Book Review Editor for Socialism and Democracy

www.sdonline.org 



 

  

 
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[Marxism] interesting new journal

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Below you will find some information on an interesting new journal and a call 
for papers.

George 
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International Critical Thought (ICT), an English-language quarterly, hosted by 
the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and published by Routledge in UK since 
March 2011, is now calling for submissions.

 

The journal has arisen as a response to recent developments that have called 
into question the international capitalist order and have led many in the world 
to call for fundamental change. It aims to serve the Marxist and other leftist 
scholars in their reflections upon the past and their inquiries into the 
future, with an emphasis laid on the coalescence of social concern with 
academic rigor, and the bettering of the reality through a better understanding 
of it. As a 21-century forum, ICT strongly supports cultural diversity and 
intellectual openness, and is most willing to facilitate dialogues not just 
within the left community but also between the left and other currents of 
social thought. As a journal based in China, it also lends an extra attentive 
ear to the developing world's experience, for instance, on China's rise and 
what this means to the world in general and the world socialism in particular.

 

As a publication outlet for Left scholarship across the world, ICT welcomes 
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THE WAR COMES HOME

 

Many came.

The preacher spoke.

Hearts were broken.

Mourners had nowhere to turn.

 

With money earned  

and with bodies burned.

Someday they will learn

what there is to learn.

 

Families and friends came to the funeral.

The bodies were shipped home

with a flag draped over the box.

 

Tuition paid

for a college education.

They hoped to find a job.

That was their hope,

so many hopes,

all gone now.

 

Men and women,

fallen on the battle field.

A post office was named after one of the guys,

as if that meant anything.

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[Marxism] Fwd: [moving beyond capitalism] FOTOS: Unrest in Mexico grows

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Does anyone know more about the issues at stake here? 



Universities throughout Mexico are closing and students are marching this 
weekend in protest of the disappearance of the 43 students at the hand of 
authorities.  





Yesterday marches and demonstrations in Mexico City, held in solidarity with 
the students of Ayotzinapa, reached unprecedented size and intensity.

More marches and demonstrations throughout the country have been planned for 
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week, and calls for the ouster of 
Mexico's authoritarian neoliberal president, Enrique Peña Nieto, have become 
louder and more numerous.

Adding mometum to the protests are the many universities across Mexico which 
have announced cessations of activities to show their support for the students 
of Ayotzinapa.  In total, a minimum of 115 universities will cancel classes at 
some time during this week.

Nevertheless, and in stark contrast to these activities, the president of 
Goldman Sachs, Gary D. Cohn, stated earlier this week his firm conviction that 
the Mexican Moment will continue.  We are very exited with what is happening 
in Mexico with the reform agenda, he said.  Our clients are excited about the 
opportunities opening up in Mexico, whether they be in petroleum, natural gas, 
or on the other hand in telecommunications.  

Asked about the events in Ayotzinapa, Cohn said it would be difficult for them 
to have any lasting effect on the Mexican economy.  It is the Mexicans who 
seem to be more focused on these events than the rest of the world,  he said. 
I don't want to minimize those events, added Cohn, but these sort of events 
happen in other parts of the world.







Now contrast the sublime remarks of the transnational banker with what happend 
in Mexico City yesterday:










































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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review a new book on the 
Grenada Revolution. Contact me at george.snede...@verizon.net if you would like 
to review this book. Here is the blurb from the publisher:
The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory by 
Shalini Puri is the first scholarly book on the subject of the Grenada 
Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, 
and memorial. It argues that in both its making and its fall, the 1979-1983 
Revolution was a transnational event that deeply impacted politics and culture 
across the Caribbean and its diaspora during its life and in the decades since 
its fall. Drawing together studies of landscape, memorials, literature, music, 
painting, photographs, film and TV, cartoons, memorabilia traded on e-bay, 
interviews, everyday life, and government, journalistic, and scholarly 
accounts, the book assembles and analyzes an archive of divergent memories. .



The book also deals with the political factions at work in the Grenada 
Revolution. 



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The Origin of Rosa Luxemburg's Slogan 'Socialism or Barbarism'

October 21, 2014
By Ian Angus
John Riddle, Marxist Essays and Commentary (October 21, 2014)

The origin of Rosa Luxemburg#039;s slogan #039;socialism or barbarism#039;


 
  Ian Angus traces an important socialist slogan to its unexpected source
Climate  Capitalism's tagline, Ecosocialism or barbarism: There is no third 
way, is based on the slogan, Socialism or Barbarism, which Rosa Luxemburg 
raised to such great effect during World War I and the subsequent German 
revolution, and which has been adopted by many socialists since then.
The puzzle is: where did the concept come from? Luxemburg's own account doesn't 
hold water, and neither do the attempts of left-wing scholars to explain (or 
explain away) the confusion in her explanation.
Luxemburg first raised the idea that humanity faced a choice between the 
victory of socialism and the end of civilization in a powerful antiwar pamphlet 
she wrote in prison in 1915. The Crisis in German Social Democracy - better 
known as The Junius Pamphlet, after the pen name she used to avoid prosecution 
- played a key role in educating and organizing a revolutionary left opposition 
to the pro-war leadership of the German Social Democratic Party.
Luxemburg attributed the concept to one of the founders of modern socialism:
Friedrich Engels once said: 'Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, 
either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.' . Until now, we 
have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without 
suspecting their fearsome seriousness. . Today, we face the choice exactly as 
Friedrich Engels foresaw it a generation ago: either the triumph of imperialism 
and the collapse of all civilization as in ancient Rome, depopulation, 
desolation, degeneration - a great cemetery. Or the victory of socialism, that 
means the conscious active struggle of the international proletariat against 
imperialism and its method of war.
Here's the problem: Despite many careful searches through his published and 
unpublished works, no one has found the words that Friedrich Engels supposedly 
said. So what's going on?
First, we should note that the English translation incorrectly puts quotation 
marks around the sentence Luxemburg attributed to Engels. Those marks do not 
appear in her German text, which indicates that she wasn't offering a direct 
quote, and we shouldn't expect to find those exact words in Engels. That's even 
more the case because she was writing in prison, with limited access to 
socialist books, so we must make allowances for memory errors.
With that in mind, let's look at the suggestions three scholars have made for 
passages that Luxemburg might have had in mind when she attributed the sentence 
Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or 
regression into barbarism, to Engels.
Three explanations
In The Rosa Luxemburg Reader, editors Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson write: 
Luxemburg probably has in mind a passage in the Communist Manifesto where Marx 
and Engels speak of class struggles resulting in 'either a revolutionary 
constitution of society at large or the common ruin of the contending classes.'
Although that passage expresses a related idea, there are three serious 
objections to it as Luxemburg's source. First, her wording is so different from 
the Manifesto's that it's hard to imagine her getting it so wrong, even quoting 
from memory. Second, it's unlikely that she would attribute a passage from Marx 
 Engels' best-known collaboration to Engels alone. And third, the standard 
English translation I've quoted above, which Hudis and Anderson also use, omits 
three important words that appear after as Friedrich Engels foresaw it a 
generation ago in the original German: vor vierzig Jahren. Surely no one 
writing in 1915 would refer to 1848, when the Manifesto was published, as forty 
years ago.
Forty years would go back to the mid-1870s, which directs our attention to 
Anti-Dühring, which Engels published in serial form in 1877-78, and as a book 
in 1879. Since it was the most comprehensive statement of the Marxist worldview 
written by either of the movement's founders, it's a reasonable place to look 
for quotes similar to the one Luxemburg attributed to Engels - and two scholars 
have done just that.
In The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Norman Geras suggests that she was probably 
referring to a passage in which Engels disputes Dühring's claim that force, not 
economic development, is the dominant factor in history. Engels argues that 
attempts to use force to turn back economic progress have almost 

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From International Socialism:

The most recent issue of Socialism and Democracy celebrates the 150th 
anniversary of The First International. Marcello Musto recalls the history of 
the International and Patrick Bond traces the history of and barriers to 
working class internationalism in South Africa from the apartheid era to today. 
Tony Daley's article in the same issue addresses the extraordinary attempts 
made by German-owned T-Mobile USA to harass its call centre workers and prevent 
them from forming a trade union.



A book version will be out in April of 20015.



George  

 
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[Marxism] Fw: book for review

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review the following book:
Omar Dahbour, SELF-DETERMINATION WITHOUT NATIONALISM, Temple University Press, 
2014.

Write to me offline at george.snede...@verizon.net if you would like to review 
this book. 



The following are several blurbs for this book from the publisher: 

 

 *In *Self-Determination without Nationalism*, Omar Dahbour powerfully

combines trenchant criticisms of nationalism with the innovative

construction of an alternative ideal of collective self-determination as a

common project of ethical community. Richly informed and resourcefully

argued, his book illuminates central questions in the ethics of

international relations and political philosophy as a whole.*-Richard

Miller, Wyn and William Y. Hutchinson Professor in Ethics and Public Life

and Director, Program on Ethics and Public Life, Department of Philosophy,

Cornell University

 

 How do groups-be they religious or ethnic-achieve sovereignty in a

postnationalist world? In *Self-Determination without Nationalism: A Theory

of Postnational Sovereignty

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2049_reg.html*(Publication Date:

September 30, 2014), noted philosopher Omar Dahbour insists that the

existing ethics of international relations, dominated by the rival notions

of liberal nationalism and political cosmopolitanism, no longer suffice.

 

Dahbour notes that political communities are an ethically desirable and

historically inevitable feature of collective life. The ethical principles

that govern them, however-especially self-determination and

sovereignty-require reformulation in light of globalization and the

economic and environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.

 

Arguing that nation-states violate the principle of self-determination,

Dahbour then develops a detailed new theory of self-determination that he

calls ecosovereignty. Ecosovereignty defines political community in a way

that can protect and further the rights of indigenous peoples as well as

the needs of ecological regions for a sustainable form of development and

security from environmental destruction.

 

In the series *Global Ethics and Politics

http://www.temple.edu/tempress/gep.html*, edited by Carol C. Gould

 

*Omar Dahbour* is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and Graduate

School, City University of New York, and is affiliated with CUNY's Center

for Place, Culture, and Politics. He is the author of *Illusion of the

Peoples: A Critique of National Self-Determination* and coeditor of both *The

Nationalism Reader* and *Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global

Justice*.

 

George Snedeker

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[Marxism] Check out the new issue of Socialism and Democracy (on the First International, 150 years later)

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I think that many of you will be interested to check out the recently released 
special issue of Socialism and Democracy.


This issue focuses on the 150th Anniversary of the First Workers International, 
exploring the relevance of this legacy for working-class struggles today.


You can read the introduction to the volume here: 
http://sdonline.org/65/introduction-24/


Also, I'm here passing along a particularly valuable piece from the issue, a 
group interview of militant trade union leaders from across the world, 
conducted by Babak Amini.  Worth checking out!  
file:///C:/Users/PC/Downloads/Interview%20Babak.pdf


I've pasted the nice shout out this issue of SD received in Monthly Review, 
below.


Sincerely, and in solidarity,
George 


P.S.  The December issue of SD will focus on Mass Incarceration, and has been 
co-edited by Johanna Fernandez and Mumia Abu-Jamal.


http://monthlyreview.org/2014/09/01/mr-066-04-2014-08/


» Notes from the Monthly Review Editors


This year is the 150th anniversary of the International Working Men’s 
Association (IWMA), often referred to as the First International. Formed in 
1864 under the leadership of Karl Marx, it operated—in contrast to what were 
subsequently called the Second, Third, and Fourth Internationals—under the 
principle of unity with diversity, rejecting a policy of absolute doctrinal 
unity. After considerable successes, however, it fell prey to sectarian 
struggles and finally expired in 1876. The 150th anniversary coincides with 
growing worldwide calls for the construction of a New International. In 
February 2014, MR published a paper, “Reflections on the New International,” 
that István Mészáros had drafted in 2010 at the request of Venezuelan President 
Hugo Chávez. In June 2014, we published Samir Amin’s “Popular Movements Toward 
Socialism,” addressing the same subject. Both Mészáros and Amin insisted that 
despite the eventual decline of the IWMA into the factionalism which led to its 
demise, it—and not the Second, Third, or Fourth Internationals—constituted the 
model for a New International.


The July 2014 issue of our sister publication Socialism and Democracy, edited 
by George C. Comninel, Marcello Musto, and Victor Wallis, is devoted entirely 
to the International’s anniversary, and adopts this same general position. In 
addition to the editors, the issue includes articles by MR authors Patrick 
Bond, Bill Fletcher, Jr., and Michael Löwy. As managing editor of Socialism and 
Democracy, Wallis (also a long-time MR contributor) wrote the introduction to 
the issue, emphasizing the need for a new internationalism. Musto’s “Notes on 
the History of the International,” written originally as the “Introduction” to 
an anthology of key documents under his editorship entitled, Workers Unite!: 
The International 150 Years Later (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014), provides a 
remarkable history of the International. It ends with the words: “The new 
International cannot evade that twin requirement: it must be plural and it must 
be anticapitalist.” For more on Socialism and Democracy, go to 
http://sdonline.org.

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[Marxism] two books

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I posted a note last week concerning two books that I am looking for a book 
reviewer for: THE REPRODUCTION OF CAPITALISM by Althusser and THE MAKING OF THE 
NEW LEFT by E.P. Thomson. so far I have gotten no responses. Both of these 
books are very important texts in the history of the Left. The Althusser book 
lays out his theory of politics. In no other book of his does he do this as 
fully and as clearly as in this book. The Thompson book tells the story of the 
rise of the new left in England and the early history of the New Left review. 
Thompson served on the editorial board for the first years of this important 
journal. 

 George

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[Marxism] Frank Rosengarten

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Sent on behalf of Walter Isaac Cohen:


I'm grateful for this remembrance of Frank Rosengarten (1927-2014), who was my 
first cousin once removed (first cousin of my mother).  Below I paste in the 
obituary from the NY Times, and you can find out more about Frank's prolific 
career by Googgling him and then going to his Amazon and Barnes  Noble pages. 
There you'll learn that he wrote books on Pratolini, the Italian Antifascist 
Press, Gramsci, Leopardi, CLR James, and Proust; composed a memoir, Through 
Partisan Eyes; edited Gramsci's letters; co-founded the journal Socialism and 
Democracy; and much more.  A high percentage of this work occurred after he 
retired.

I saw Frank most often as a child growing up in the metropolitan area of New 
York.  There were lots of cousins, and they were remarkably close to each 
other. It was hard to keep the names straight for a small child: all the men of 
that generation seemed to be named Frank or Elliot.  But Frank began to assume 
more distinctive features for me when I decided to follow in his footsteps and 
become a literary critic.  Thereafter, I saw him irregularly-at family 
gatherings and academic conferences.  One of the former was a party for about 
15 people that my parents threw, at which they and I-I discovered to my 
delight-were the only three who had not published any books.  I recall with 
equal  fondness an MLA convention in NY at which I must have given a paper, 
after which I introduced Frank to my former dissertation director, Louise 
Clubb, also an Italianist, whereupon the two of them began ostentatiously 
jabbering about me in Italian, confident that my pathetic command of that 
language wou
 ld prevent me from understanding what they were saying.

After Frank retired from CUNY, he returned to the school as a doctoral student 
in French, completing his degree and publishing his thesis on The Writings of 
the Young Marcel Proust (2001), a work I have used in my own writing.  Dating 
from after this period-indeed, mostly from the current decade-are the 
completion of his books on James (2008), Leopardi (2012), and Gramsci (2013), 
as well as his memoir (2014).

I last saw Frank in December 2011, at a memorial service for my mother in 
Ithaca, where I then lived and worked, and where she had moved some years 
earlier.  Frank's wife Lucy had just died a few days before, and he was of 
course distraught.  So I was particularly touched that he and his sister Jo 
made the trek to remember my mother.  At the reception, I introduced my 
longtime friend and colleague Jonathan Culler to Frank, and they immediately 
launched into a discussion of a writer of mutual interest, the early 
nineteenth-century Italian poet Leopardi, long a figure of fascination for 
Italian leftist intellectuals (Gramsci, Timpanaro, Negri).  I was surprised to 
learn at the time that Frank had just completed a book on Leopardi, and would 
have been even more astonished if I'd known that there were two more to come 
right after.

George Snedeker's statement hits the right note: Frank was a genuinely modest 
gentleman, and I agree that the combination of that modesty with leftist 
politics is uncommon-in his generation as well as after.  Having said that, I 
see Frank sociologically as part of the final generation of New York Jewish 
leftist intellectuals.  By that I don't mean that there are no longer leftist 
Jewish intellectuals, in New York or elsewhere.  There are obviously many of 
them.  What I do mean is that the category no longer has much meaning.  The 
passing of this intellectual constellation to me has more good than bad about 
it (in the sense of a cultural opening up), but it is nonetheless a passing, 
and I both mourn my cousin and honor his generation and its immediate 
predecessors.

Walter Cohen

Here's the Times obituary:

ROSENGARTEN--Frank, was a truly extraordinary person. He fell in love with 
Italy as a young man and devoted the rest of his life to studies related to its 
culture and politics, receiving a PhD from Columbia University in the 1950's in 
Italian. He wrote many books and numerous articles on important people in the 
anti-fascist press there. This passion tied in with his longtime interest in 
socialism, and he was a co-founder and an editor of the journal Socialism and 
Democracy. Gramsci became a special focus of his work and he translated 
Gramsci's letters from prison. A professor of Italian studies at several 
universities, he was Professor Emeritus at Queens College. But his interests 
covered many subjects unrelated to Italian, and included a love of theater, 
movies, and music and books, which he devoured on many subjects. But more 
important than his many accomplishments, including receiving his second 
Doctorate, in 

[Marxism] promoting a friend's book

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The following book was written by my former mentor and good friend. I would not 
push it if it were not an important Marxist work. It will not be an easy read, 
but nor is Capital. 
Michael E. Brown, THE CONCEPT OF THE SOCIAL IN UNITING THE HUMANITIES AND THE 
SOCIAL SCIENCES, Temple University Press, 2014.

 

Brown's book is an ambitious and profound rethinking of the foundational 
underpinnings that run through and orient the social sciences and the 
humanities.

With a philosophical rigor rare in the social sciences and a grasp of the 
complexity of society uncommon in the humanities, he discloses what is at stake

in reclaiming the social as their common object. Brown applies a meticulous and 
attentive erudition across an incredible range of literatures, disciplines

and conversations. This is the masterwork of a searingly original and learned 
voice. 

-Randy Martin, Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Public Policy 
at New York University, and author of Financialization of Daily Life and

Under New Management: Universities, Administrative Labor, and the Professional 
Turn

block quote end

 

In this book, Michael Brown provides original and critical analysis of the 
state of the social sciences and the humanities. He examines the different 
disciplines

that address human affairs--from sociology, philosophy, political science, and 
anthropology to the humanities in general--to understand their common ground.

He probes the ways in which we investigate the meaning of individuality in a 
society for which individuals are not the agents of the activities in which

they participate, and he develops a critical method for studying the relations 
among activities, objects, and situations. 

 

The Concept of the Social in Uniting the Humanities and Social Sciences 
restores the centrality of sociality to all disciplines that provide for and 
depend

on the social dimension of human life. Ultimately, he establishes a theory of 
the unity of the human sciences that will surely make readers rethink the

current state and future of theory in those fields for years to come.

Publisher's Blurb 



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[Marxism] Fw: [mlg-ics] FYI - I'm giving a book talk on Sunday, July 20 in Oakland CA

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Please pass the word around about this talk. 
George 
- Original Message - 
From: Grover Furr 
To: Marxist Literary Group 
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 9:55 AM
Subject: [mlg-ics] FYI - I'm giving a book talk on Sunday, July 20 in Oakland CA


Dear Fellow MLG-ers:

Here's the information.Please pass this along to anybody you know who might 
possibly be interested. 
Thanks!

- Grover Furr, Montclair SU

  Title:  Exposing The Anti-Stalin Myths Of Cold War -Blood Lies By 
Grover Furr  
  START DATE:  Sunday July 20  
  TIME:  12:30 PM - 3:30 PM  
  Location Details:  
  Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 
  6501 Telegraph Ave (at 65th St.), Oakland 
 
  Event Type:  Meeting  
  Exposing The Anti-Stalin Myths Of Cold War -Blood Lies By Grover Furr 
  Sunday, July 20, 12.30-3.30 PM 
  Niebyl Proctor Marxist Library 
  6501 Telegraph Ave (at 65th St.), Oakland 

  Grover Furr will speak about his latest book, Blood Lies: The Evidence 
that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy 
Snyder's 'Bloodlands' Is False. (Red Star Press, 2014) 

  Timothy Snyder, a full professor of Eastern European history at Yale, has 
written two dozen articles for leading intellectual journals such as the NY 
Review of Books. He recently published Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and 
Stalin (N.Y: Basic Books, 2010). This book is by far the most widespread 
attempt to date to equate Stalin with Hitler, and the Soviet Union with Nazi 
Germany. It has garnered rave reviews in literally dozens of newspapers and 
journals; received prizes for historiography; and has been translated into more 
than 25 languages. 

  Professor Tim Snyder has little to say about the Nazis. His main target 
is Stalin, Soviet policy, and communists generally. His broader claim is that 
the Soviets killed 6 to 9 million innocent civilians while the Nazis were 
killing about 14 million. Snyder finds parallels between Soviet and Nazi crimes 
at every turn. 

  Professor Grover Furr has spent two years methodically checking every 
single footnote, every reference to anything that could be construed as a crime 
by Stalin, the USSR, or pro-Soviet communists. Snyder's main sources are in 
Polish and Ukrainian, in hard-to-find books and articles. Furr's conclusion: 
Every single allegation of Soviet / Stalin crimes is false! Soviet History of 
the Stalin period must be completely rewritten! 

  He will also share his research on what really happened in: The Famine of 
1932-33; the Polish Operation; the Great Terror; the Molotov-Ribbentrop 
Pact; the Soviet invasion of Poland; the Katyn Massacre; the Warsaw 
Uprising; and Stalin's Anti-Semitism. 

  Professor Furr will sell and sign copies of his new book and his previous 
books Khrushchev Lied and The Murder of Sergei Kirov. 

  Grover Furr's Home Page, with many articles, is at 
  http://www.tinyurl.com/grover-furr-research 



 







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[Marxism] reviewer wanted

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Socialism and Democracy is looking for someone to review the following book: 
The Revolutionary Marxism of Antonio Gramsci by Frank Rosengarten, Brill, 
2013,212 pages.Frank Rosengarten is a leading Gramsci scholar. He edited the 
two volume collection of Gramsci's letters which was published by Columbia 
University Press. This book has five of Rosengarten's essays on Gramsci. One of 
the essays treats the relationship between Gramsci and Trotsky. 

You can find sample reviews on our web page: www.sdonline.org. If you are 
interested in reviewing this book contact me at george.snede...@verizon.net. We 
will need the review by November 1. 

George Snedeker 
 

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[Marxism] Seeking Articles on Climate Change

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Barbara is a very good friend and a radical sociologist. Please take a look at 
the attach flyer if this is your bag. GS
  The journal Radical Teacher is  planning to do an issue on climate change and 
is looking for  possible contributors. The description of what they are looking 
for is attached. They have published excellent and useful articles in the past 
on a range of issues. Feel free 
 to forward this email to anyone not on this list who might be interested in  
this. I am sending this request to several lists which might have overlapping 
members so I apologize if you receive this message more than once. Although the 
attachment says 
 proposals are due by July 1 they will accept them beyond that date. 

Barbara Chasin, Ph.D
Professor Emerita, Sociology
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043

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[Marxism] Fw: Featured with thanks on our home page now!: Servants of Power: Higher Education in an Era of Corporate Control

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Peter Seybold's paper on The Servants of Power: Higher Education in an Era of 
Corporate Control is now on the Truth out web page. See below. It is a great 
essay. 
George  From: Leslie Thatcher [les...@truthout.org]
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To: Seybold, Peter
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[Marxism] Come and Celebrate

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Dear Comrades, 

I would like to invite anyone who lives in the NYC area to attend a celebration 
of the life and work of D.H. Melhem: poet, novelist and scholar. D.H. Melhem 
also served as the Poetry Editor of Socialism and Democracy. Unfortunately, 
D.H. died last year. The following flyer describes the celebration for D.H. 
Melhem which will be held at the Poetry House next Saturday: 
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A TRIBUTE TO D. H. MELHEM*

 

Saturday, June 7, 2014

 

3-5pm with Reception to Follow

 

POET'S HOUSE

 

10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282

 

www.poetshouse.org

 

 

 The life of writer, poet, scholar and political activist D. H. Melhem will

be celebrated at a memorial celebration on June 7, 2014 at Poet's House in

New York City.

 

 

 The program will include tributes from writers, poets, performers and

social activists, including Dorothy Friedman August, Vinie Burrows,

Hannelore Hahn , Rashidah Ismaili, Donald Lev, Karen Malpede, Robert Roth,

Susan Sherman, Quincy Troupe, Victor Wallis and Steve Zeitlin.

 

 

 The tribute will run from 3-5pm, with a reception following. The public is

invited and there is no charge.

 

 

 *About D. H. Melhem*

 

Beloved New York writer and poet D. H. Melhem, who passed away June

15, 2013, published eight books of poetry spanning four decades. Of her

scholarly works,* Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice*, was the

first comprehensive study of the renowned American poet. *Heroism in the

New Black Poetry: Introductions and Interviews* focused on six leading

black poets of the 1970s and 1980s, and was honored with an American Book

Award.

 

 

 In addition, Melhem authored over 70 essays, edited two anthologies, and

wrote* Children of the House Afire*, a musical drama based on her poems

about Manhattan's West Side. Her *Notes on 94th Street *(1972; 1979) was

the first poetry book published in English by an Arab American woman.

 

 

 Melhem graduated cum laude with a B.A. from New York University, received

her master's degree in English at City College and her doctoral degree in

English and American literature at the Graduate Center of the City

University of New York. She was a longtime board member of the

International Women's Writing Guild, a member of Pen  Brush, PEN, and many

other organizations. She also served as poetry editor for the journal

*Socialism

 Democracy*. Information at *www.dhmelhem.com http://www.dhmelhem.com/*



D. H. Melhem was also the author of three novels: Blight, Stigma and The Cave. 

George Snedeker

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[Marxism] Home Planet News Online First Issue and Onward

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I would like to recommend that people take a look at a new online poetry 
magazine called Home Planet News. The following note about the magazine is by 
its editor, Frank Murphey. There is also a mention of a memorial for the poet 
and novelist, D.H. Melhem at the Poetry House in NYC. DH died last year. She 
was also the poetry editor for Socialism and Democracy and the author of a very 
good book about Gwendalyn Brooks. 

GS
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We have received many wonderful comments on our first issue of HPN OnLine. 
Under advice, We set up a Facebook page which (in the first week) received 
nearly 100 Likes. Please, it is in all of our interest to get people to our 
site. There are so many brilliant works, poems, fiction, reviews that deserve 
as large an audience as possible. Help get the word out. If you are on 
Facebook, Like us on Facebook, get your friends to like us on Facebook. And 
don't stop there. Tell people about us, email about us, speak about us, write 
about us. One of the reasons HPN OnLine will accept poems that have been 
previously publish in small editions is that we are committed to getting the 
largest readership of our works as possible.
If you can think of any way HPN OnLine can improve our outreach, please let us 
know.
We are hoping to get out a second edition in October and will begin accepting 
works for the next issue in June.


On Saturday, June 7th, there will be a memorial for D. H. Melham. In will be 
held at Poet's House, 10 River Terrace NYC between 3 and 5 pm. A reception will 
follow. Please come and help celebrate the life and work of this wonderful 
artist.

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