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50 (Volume 23, No. 2)

Socialism in the Age of Obama


Introduction by The Editors

Rick Wolff, Economic Crisis from a Socialist Perspective

Hester Eisenstein, Some Strategies for Left Feminists (and Their Male Allies) in the Age of Obama

Andrew Kliman, “The Destruction of Capital” and the Current Economic Crisis

Gregory Meyerson and Michael Joseph Roberto, Obama and the Irreversible Crisis: Systemic Contradictions, a New New Deal, and the Limits of State Capitalism

Rohit Negi, Political Economy of the Global Crisis

Jonathan Scott, Thinking Big

Mat Callahan, The Nature of the Beast: Its Vulnerabilities and Its Replacement

Victor Wallis, Economic/Ecological Crisis and Conversion

Jeffrey Shantz, Re-Building Infrastructures of Resistance

Raúl Zibechi, Time to Reactivate Networks of Solidarity

Poetry

George Snedeker
, Cash Nexus

D.H. Melhem, For Gaza

George Wallace, Too Many Words

Correspondence

Shaka Zulu, 500 Years of Tears

Report

Nadya Williams, Trying to Undo: Veterans of Conscience in Viet Nam

Review Essay

Joel Kovel
, Mearsheimer and Walt Revisited

Reviews

Victor Considerant, Principles of Socialism: Manifesto of 19th Century Democracy reviewed by Amy Buzby

John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Richard York, Critique of Intelligent Design reviewed by David Schwartzman

Andrew Hartman, Education and the Cold War: The Battle for the American School reviewed by Samuel Day Fassbinder

Nicholas Powers
, Theater of War: The Plot Against the American Mind Sam Friedman, Seeking To Make the World Anew: Poems of the Living Dialectic reviewed by Howard Pflanzer

Aviva Chomsky, Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class reviewed by Ted Zuur

Robert J. Foster, Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea reviewed by Noah Eber-Schmid

Messay Kebede
, Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974 reviewed by Teodros Kiros

Francis A. Boyle
, Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law
reviewed by Ravi Malhotra

Michael Schwartz
, War Without End: The Iraq War in Context
reviewed by Peter Seybold

Lance Selfa, The Democrats: A Critical History reviewed by Chris Hardnack

Annelies Laschitza, Die Liebknechts: Karl und Sophie – Politik und Familie reviewed by Gerd Callesen

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the author would like to thank Leo Panitch for his comments on an early draft of this paper. She would also like to acknowledge the financial assistance of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Finally, she would like to thank Hester Eisenstein whose editorial assistance was much appreciated.

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