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Imagine: A Great New Issue From Canada!

Announcing an exciting new issue of Imagine, quarterly journal of our comrades in the Socialist Party of Canada!

World Socialist Party US

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Book Review, History, Human Nature

After Shipwreck

When a group of people are stranded on an uninhabited island after a shipwreck, what sort of society do they form among themselves? And how does this affect their chances of survival? The historical record shows that groups based on cooperation and equality fare best.

Stephen Shenfield

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Book Review, Human Nature, Socialism, Work

William Morris and the Treasures of Early Socialism

What is the point of studying the history of early socialism? The understanding of what "socialism" itself means has changed radically in the subsequent years.

Michael Schauerte

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Book Review, History, Marxism

A New Ideology for China?

Huang Fenglin, Theory of Bipolar World – The Road to Communism Found in the Evolutionary Structure of World History (translation and revision of a text published in Chinese in ...

Stephen Shenfield

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First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2010)

Book Review from the February 2010 issue of The Socialist Standard First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Žižek. Verso, 2009. Has Slavoj Žižek (the superstar Slovenian “theorist”) signed ...

Michael Schauerte

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Archives, Book Review, History, Socialism

An American Marxist (1990)

Book Review from the May 1990 issue of The Socialist Standard Daniel De Leon. By Stephen Coleman. Manchester University Press. £25. The contribution to socialist thought of Daniel De ...

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Archives, Book Review, Class

Michael Harrington’s ‘The Other America’ (1964)

Book Review from the March 1964 issue of The Socialist Standard The Other America. Michael Harrington, Penguin, 3s. 6d. There is a pretty little myth that America is the ...

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Archives, Book Review, Class, Socialism

The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab (2011)

Book Review from issue 22 of The World Socialist Review Role Modeling Socialist Behavior: The Life and Letters of Isaac Rab, by Karla Doris Rab. 504 pages. Lulu ...

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Bogdanov, Technocracy and Socialism (2007)

From the April 2007 issue of The Socialist Standard The terms “Bolshevism” and “Leninism” are usually treated as synonyms. In view of Lenin’s enormous influence over the ...

Stephen Shenfield

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Archives, Book Review, Economics

Build It Now? (2007)

Book Review from Issue 21 of The World Socialist Review Build It Now: Socialism For The Twenty-First Century by Michael A. Lebowitz Marx wrote: “Men make their own history, ...

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