Joel Wendland-Liu
LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu
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Culture
Hu Yamin’s new book on Chinese Marxist literary criticism
January 13, 2025Hu argues that Western Marxists have deviated from Marx’s focus on class struggle and revolutionary change.
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Books
A true American horror story: ‘Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum’
October 31, 2024The new book details how, before the turn toward mass incarceration in the 1970s, Black people in disproportionate numbers were institutionalized in mental hospitals, where they were assigned to forced labor regimes and other kinds of...
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New book opens imaginative doors to understanding Lenin’s global legacy
October 2, 2024The book’s strength lies in the fact that most contributors avoid clichés about Stalinism or self-pitying laments about what did or did not happen after the fateful October Revolution of 1917.
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Culture
‘Their Example Will Inspire Us: Five Black Communist Women’: A book review
September 12, 2024Occasionally, historians publish new research that tries to correct the record, restore our memory, and affirm our heritage. One such effort is Melissa Ford’s latest work.
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Culture
‘Transnational Communism Across the Americas’ offers valuable insights despite its anti-communist tropes
August 14, 2024The reliance on widely used anti-communist tropes in the book is regrettable and undermines its objectivity.
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‘Mute Compulsion’: A Danish Marxist examines the economic power of capital
June 14, 2024Why does capitalism not simply break down on its own internal contradictions?
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‘Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation’
May 17, 2024When wealthy, Harvard-trained ultra-right Senator Tom Cotton described racial slavery as a “necessary evil” in 2020, he made two crucial admissions.
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New book: U.S. ‘national security’ born from Anti-Asian racism and white supremacist ideology
December 19, 2023Menace to Empire shows how the racist foreign policy frameworks that drove U.S. operations and policies in the early twentieth century continue to shape today’s foreign and domestic conditions.
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