[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 …
[Mirrored from lareviewofbooks.org, where it was posted May 12, 2023.] A Brilliant Red Thread: Revolutionary Writings from Don Hamerquist (Kersplebedeb, 2023) “TODAY WE FACE a bewildering conundrum,” writes Luis Brennan. “[M]illions of people are ready to engage in active combat with the ruling capitalist order, but we have not seen …
[Originally posted to LeftTwoThree.org] A review of J Sakai, The Shape of Things to Come (Montreal: Kersplebedeb, 2023). Last month, we looked at the Kersplebedeb release A Brilliant Red Thread, an anthology of writings by Don Hamerquist. This month, we’re looking at a somewhat similar release by Kersplebedeb, The Shape …
[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 …
[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 …
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). …
[This review was originally published by Fifth Estate in Fall 2021. Fighting for a Hand to Hold is available on LeftWingBooks.net] Breaking up Families How Medical Colonialism in Canada is Retraumatizing Indigenous People by Marieke Bivar Fifth Estate # 410, Fall, 2021 a review of Fighting for A Hand to Hold: …
[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 …
[This review originally appeared in the November 2021 issue of the The Atlantic. The Dawn of Everything is now available at LeftWingBooks.net] Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working …
[This review originally appeared in the Boston Review, November 3, 2021.] The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity David Graeber and David Wengrow [Available now at LeftWingBooks.net] The standard history of humanity goes something like this. Roughly 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens first evolved somewhere on …