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The disproportionate effects of infectious diseases on racial minorities (Watch: Science for the People)

The disproportionate effects of infectious diseases on racial minorities (Watch: Science for the People)

February 20, 2024

On the first Friday in March, SftP member Joseph Graves Jr. interviewed Rob Wallace about his work Dead Epidemiologists. Grave’s expertise in epidemiology and the disproportionate effects of infectious diseases on racial minorities steered the conversation as Wallace offered his take on the relationship between industrial agriculture, capitalist modes of production and the Covid-19 crisis.

New! “Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan” (2nd ed.)

New! “Value and Crisis: Essays on Marxian Economics in Japan” (2nd ed.)

February 20, 2024

About the time of the First World War, when interest in Marxist theory was virtually nonexistent in the United States, rival schools of thought in Japan emerged, and brilliant debates took place on Marx’s Capital and on capitalism as it was developing in Japan. Forty years ago, Makoto Itoh’s Value and Crisis began to chronicle these Japanese contributions to Marxist theory. Now, in a second edition of Value and Crisis, Itoh deepens his study of Marx’s theories. The promise of these theories has not waned. If anything—considering the failure of Soviet-style socialism and the catastrophe of neoliberalism—it grows daily.

Portrait of the philosopher as a young man: Michael Heinrich’s biography of Marx, Vol. I

Portrait of the philosopher as a young man: Michael Heinrich’s biography of Marx, Vol. I

February 20, 2024

Michael Heinrich’s projected biography of Marx that is supposed to consist of four volumes is an extraordinary ambitious undertaking. Only the first volume “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society” has been published so far. It covers the years before Marx’s birth (because it deals with his parents) and goes up to his doctoral dissertation done in 1841, when he was 23. The biography is extraordinary ambitious for three reasons….

Washington’s lethal war against the world: UK’s Morning Star reviews Prashad’s “Washington Bullets”

Washington’s lethal war against the world: UK’s Morning Star reviews Prashad’s “Washington Bullets”

February 20, 2024

In Guatemala, Congo, Vietnam, Korea, Indonesia, Haiti, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Yemen, Sudan, Grenada, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Angola and so many other countries, Washington’s bullets have been deployed in the pursuance of regime change, the protection of US hegemony and opposition to the emergence of truly sovereign post-colonial nations, all in flagrant violation of international law….

SR 2021: Ursula Huws on “Reaping the Whirlwind,” via Marxist Education Project

SR 2021: Ursula Huws on “Reaping the Whirlwind,” via Marxist Education Project

February 20, 2024

Sunday, January 31 @ 1:30pm-4:00pm: Join this online reading group and discussion of the most recent issue of Socialist Register dedicated to Leo Panitch. This first session begins with Ursula Huws‘ essay, “Reaping the Whirlwind: Digitalization, Restructuring, and Mobilization in the Covid Crisis.” This work addresses the changes currently sweeping through global labor markets during the coronavirus pandemic….

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