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Ideal and Real History: L.A. Kauffman's 'Direct Action'
Jean Allen, October 5, 2018
Jean Allen reviews L.A. Kauffman's 'Direct Action,' a history of the protest movements that filled the gap between the New Left and the modern left that are often ignored and forgotten. Allen argues that these movements cannot be understood strictly in terms of their theory, but by grasping the realities that they faced as organizers. Read Article.
Against Think-Tank Socialism: a Review of 'Inventing the Future'
Jean Allen, November 1, 2018
Jean Allen reviews Srnicek & Williams' 'Inventing the Future,' which calls for an intellectual counter-hegemony to neoliberalism. Does this proposal for counter-hegemonic institutions really put anything new on the table, or just reflect the prevailing organizational norms of the existing left? Read Article.
The Democratic Socialist Cul-de-sac: A Critical Look at The Socialist Manifesto
Doug Enaa Greene, July 12, 2019
Doug Enaa Greene reviews 'The Socialist Manifesto' by Bhaskar Sunkara (New York: Basic Books, 2019). Rather than an innovative take on socialist politics for the 21st century, The Socialist Manifesto is just the same old reformism that has been a dead-end for the left. Read Article.
Post-Scarcity without a Fully-Automated World
Connor Harney, April 7, 2021
Connor Harney reviews Aaron Benavav's Automation and the Future of Work, a welcome intervention in a time where bourgeois utopian delusions about the future of automation and capitalism are commonplace and visions of an emancipatory communist future are far and few between. Read Article.