Book Review
Monty Python’s North Korea? Comedian’s book is surprisingly objective look at DPRK
December 3, 2019Michael Palin often disparages the system of the DPRK, but as his journey continues, he clearly became quite fond of the Korean people.
Read moreReview: ‘The Sex Factor – How Women Made the West Rich’
July 26, 2019Some readers will think Bateman’s views towards Marxist analyses are less than accurate, but she offers a valuable perspective rarely mentioned in bourgeois academia.
Read more“New Left” in old age: Lebowitz’s ‘Contradictions of Real Socialism’
May 9, 2019The 1960s New Left's populist fantasies are still not what's needed to build real socialism.
Read more‘Communism for Kids’—but mostly for grownups with imagination
December 27, 2018A reader with some background in socialist thinking will readily identify the hopeful, optimistic conclusion with some skepticism, smacking as it does of the early “utopians."
Read moreThe Iran agenda: America’s next “little” war
December 3, 2018The neocons behind the 2003 Iraq invasion that killed 500,000 and destabilized an entire region is: “If at first you don’t succeed, do the same thing again somewhere else.”
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