Book Review
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Lenin . . . Reviewed (1976)
Book Review from the Fall 1976 issue of The Western Socialist Lenin as Philosopher by Anton Pannekoek, Merlin Press, 11 Fitzroy Square, London, W.l. The Russian State proclaims ...
The God That Failed (1950)
Book Review from the June-July 1950 issue of The Western Socialist The God That Failed edited by Richard Crossman [Harper & Brother] Six (presumably) wise men, tending ...
Council Communist
Book Review from the February 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick‘, by Gary Roth. Chicago. Haymarket Books, ...
The Theoretical System of Karl Marx (1968)
Book Review from the 1968 – number 3 issue of The Western Socialist The Theoretical System of Karl Marx by Louis B. Boudin, Monthly Review Press, ...
