The author of this piece should audition at a comedy club. Sunkara's love of
nuclear power is due to his "deep concerns over the dire impacts of global
warming." Sure! I believe that. I really do!! Guy's just so damned caring.
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Much of what Michael Meeropol says is true. I might not have passed by
Microeconomics PhD comp without Bowles Problem Set. And I used the work of
many a radical economist in my teaching, UMass economists included.
I suppose that one thing that always irked me is that no economist at UMass
I thought it was great when UMass-Amherst hired radical economists. Now,
however, the whole thing seems much less impressive. We drove Herb Gintis off
the Pen-l list decades ago, because he had already moved so far to the right.
Sam Bowles never moved that far right, but he certainly wouldn't
So, an essay on Marxism in Japan and not a mention of the great Marxist
economists in Japan. For some insight on the development of leftwing economics
in Japan, see Makoto Itoh's MR Press book, Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian
Economics in Japan, second edition. Remarkably, Kohei Saito's (he
I reviewed the Botwinnick book when it first came out (Monthly Review, Feb.
1996). Howard and I gave a presentation once at a Labor Notes conference, and I
once stayed a night at his home in Ithaca, NY. Here is my review. Sam asked me
to send him my review. We do cover some of the same ground.
Andrew, there is a big difference between an analysis of the Chinese revolution
and what Mao and the Red Army accomplished, the radical transformation of the
countryside (see the book by Zhun Xu on the dismantling of the communes), and
so forth and the foolishness of the Maoist groups in the
This comment has nothing to do with our moderator posting this link. But anyone
who would bother listening to or reading anything Ethan Young has to say must
have way too much time on their hands. He is a person who has wasted much of
the considerable amount of social and cultural capital to
This article in In These Times is just dreadful. Red-baiting for certain. One
of the authors is an old Cold Warrior, Leo Casey. Now who would you rather have
in your organization, Leo Casey or Kshama Sawant? Who is the sectarian here?
Has anyone noticed when certain DSA and Jacobin magazine
I posted this on Facebook:
Columbia University graduate students have gone on strike. They want better pay
and access to third-party arbitration. They live in the most expensive city in
the country, many have families, and they do a significant part of
undergraduate educating. As anyone who
This is an amusing essay. Our good professor, working at an elite university,
has always been visible (by his own account, often obnoxiously so), but now he
announces his retirement and he becomes invisible. Poor man! It is always
curious to me that professors so often fail to see that they are
Long ago, in another life, I gave a paper at Hamilton College in upstate New
York. The conference had been called for the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Ezra Pound (a graduate of the college), and the theme of the conference was
something like Literature, Politics, and Economics. Most of the
Banaji is always good. I dealt with the world's working class, in detail and
with evidence, in Can the Working Class Change the World? This book was of more
interest in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and elsewhere in the Global South
than in the US. It is also a book that is accessible. But so
I don't see any problem with a theory that seeks underlying causes and then
points out that there can be countervailing tendencies. Marx himself and every
scientist makes the same overall kind of analysis. The MR analysis, for
example, says that what we must explain is the one and one half
Chaman Lal, Indian scholar and lifelong champion of the country's workers and
peasants, provides us with the historical background needed to understand the
current revolt of India's farmers.
Here is the announcement for Marxmailer Michael Lebowitz's new book, Between
Capitalism and Community. Michael is one of the most astute Marxist economists
in the world. He understands that it is always necessary to build on Marx,
deepening and broadening his analysis of capitalism, rather than
Ken Hiebert, Something I wrote 6 years ago when we were living on the Big
Island in Hawai'i. They did use the star Arcturus. A good book is A Shark Going
Inland is My Chief by Patrick Kirch.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/01/those-who-came-before-us/
Just as an historical note, one of the persons who made Monthly Review
possible, one of its founders so to speak, was the famous scholar F.O.
Mathiesson, who was gay. Gay men and women have worked for Monthly Review and
Monthly Review Press for many years. Whatever failings we had in the past,
I wrote this 7 years ago. I thought it was pretty good then. Be curious what
newer members of this list think of it.
https://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2013/02/28/ows-and-the-importance-of-political-slogans/
Lorraine Hansberry became good friends in NYC with Leo Huberman and Paul
Sweezy, editors of Monthly Review. In 1964 she was sick and in the hospital.
Yet, she agreed to speak at MR's 15th birthday party, helping to raise money
for Monthly Review Press. She died in January of 1965, and in
I hadn't quite finished the review of the book about the rich of Wyoming's
Teton County. Having finally done so, I think the review misses a good deal
about the distribution of wealth and what to do about it. And the author of the
book turns out to look awfully shallow in the end.
This is a good review of what appears to be an interesting book about the most
unequal county in the United States.
In my book, Cheap Motels and a Hot Plate, I reference Jackson, Wyoming, the hum
of Teton County, and a place we visited several times when we worked at
Yellowstone National Park.
I knew Dennis when he taught at the Univ. of Pittsburgh. I participated in a
conference he organized, and he came to our branch campus to speak. A wonderful
man. A dedicated radical and as far as I know, uncorrupted.
A friend of mine and I were teaching in a maximum security prison in
It is sad to know that Noam Chomsky has agreed to participate in a literary
event sponsored by a brutal and vicious Indian-centered corporation, the Tata
Group. If I live as long as he has lived, I hope I will be contemplating my
life and getting ready for death. But never doing anything as
This is a very fine book about Marx and Marx's Capital. It is witty and
well-written, funny but serious. Best of all, it is written for a general
reader, although Marx scholars will enjoy it as well. Andy Merrifield is that
great rarity--an independent scholar and author. I recommend this book
Michael Meeropol wrote : "Michael --- what about some individual unions with a
strong rank and file? ANy hopes there --- such as how the flight attendants
forced the end of the last government shutdown?"
Yes, there are a couple unions and some locals that offer some hope. Yet, most
of the
See my article in this month's Monthly Review. I take it that the author of the
Jacobin article didn't read it. Par for the course with Jacobin's stable of
labor writers, mostly professors or grad students, or real know-nothings like
Micah Uetricht. Here is a link to my essay. Why anyone would
Dennis Brasky links to an essay that says young people in the US are abandoning
religion. Well, about time!!! There are, of course, good people of faith. But
this nation is filled with religious lunatics, who believe some truly bizarre
things and who just love Trump, a man of no religious
Here is a link to an essay I wrote, published in this month's Monthly Review. I
welcome comments.
https://monthlyreview.org/2020/09/01/covid-19-economic-depression-and-the-black-lives-matter-protests/?fbclid=IwAR0dEX-U2PvXV1NTcg8HoW5S7wJ8keUsXFkCTT_lWv6vhXHmaBvg_JHA3gA
"Finally, there is a more
Here is a link to a review with commentary on a film about the "teaching" of
economics. Comments welcome.
https://mronline.org/2020/08/20/your-economics-professor-is-almost-certainly-a-charlatan-a-review-with-commentary-of-my-mis-education-in-3-graphics-a-film-by-mary-filippo/
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