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Book Review, Capitalism, Class
‘Changing the World’ Without Changing the World
Daniel W. Drezner, The Ideas Industry. Oxford University Press, 2017. David Callahan, The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. Anand Giridharadas, Winners ...
Book Review, Capitalism, Human Nature, Work
A Few Words on the German Ideology
The ideas in The German Ideology (TGI) have had great influence over the Socialist Party of Great Britain (SPGB) and all of the SPGB’s companion parties which ...
Globalization Goes Into Reverse
Back in October 2008 I suggested that globalization ‘has lost impetus and may even have passed its zenith’. Now, in the aftermath of Brexit and the inauguration ...
Capitalism, media, News, Politics
Manufacturing the News
Mark Fishman, associate professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, investigated routine news production by examining the work practices of reporters and other ...
USA: Illusions of Democracy
The United States of America has been under one-party rule since its birth at the drafting of the Constitution. This document was drawn up by a small ...
