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Revolution in Our Lifetime A Review of “Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072” [Spectre Journal]

[Originally posted to SpectreJournal.com on September 1, 2022] Everything For Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072 by M.E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi Common Notions 2022 Review by Phil Kaplan Unless you’re rich, it’s fairly hard living your life in today’s world. It’s hard to go out …

Living with the Lower Case [Gabriel Kuhn reviews A Brilliant Red Thread]

[Originally posted to Gabriel Kuhn’s blog at LeftTwoThree.org] A review of Don Hamerquist, A Brilliant Red Thread (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). There is much to like about Montreal publisher Kersplebedeb. One thing is the political positioning. Introducing a list of “Texts for leninists with an anti-authoritarian critique of leninism, and for …

Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours [ThreeWayFight]

[This was originally posted on the Three Way Fight blog on January 8, 2023. The Editor’s Note is from Three Way Fight] Their Anti-Imperialism and Ours (guest post) by Linda Mann Editors’ note: Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is now in its eleventh month, and the war has no end …

Torkil Lauesen’s Riding the Wave, reviewed by Adam Grey [RevolutionaryCommunist.org]

Riding the Wave: Sweden’s Integration into the Imperialist World System, Torkil Lauesen, Kersplebedeb Publishing, 2021, 268pp. Reviewed by Adam Grey. [Originally published on RevolutionaryCommunist.org, 1 Dec 2022.] This important book by the Danish anti-imperialist activist Torkil Lauesen charts the history of Sweden ‘from 16th-century colonialism to the present day’ (p7). …

‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong [ClimateAndCapitalism.com]

[This post originally appeared on ClimateAndCapitalism.com on December 17, 2021. The Dawn of Everything is available for purchase at LeftWingBooks.net; these reviews and the introductory text are from Monthly Review Online, where this content is mirrored from: https://mronline.org/2021/12/20/the-dawn-of-everything-gets-human-history-wrong/]   Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of …