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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

Notes on Contributors

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Notes on Contributors

Emelio Betances is associate professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Gettysburg College, where he founded and directed the Latin American Studies Program. He is the author of The State and Society in the Dominican Republic and is currently writing a book on the role of the Catholic Church in Dominican politics. ebetance@gettysburg.edu

Walter A. Davis is Professor Emeritus at Ohio State University. His most recent books are: An Evening With JonBenet Ramsey and Deracination: Historicity, Hiroshima, and the Tragic Imperative (which provides the framework for his article in this issue). davis.65@osu.edu.

Richard Levins is an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist. He works in evolutionary, public health, and agricultural ecology and has been active in the Puerto Rican independence movement, environmental and anti-war struggles, and Marxist education. He has been a participant/observer of the development of Cuban ecology for forty years and teaches at the Harvard School of Public Health. humaneco@hsph.harvard.edu

Steve Martinot is a lecturer at San Francisco State University, in Interdisciplinary Programs. His most recent book is The Rule of Racialization (Temple Univ. Press, 2003). He also translated Albert Memmi's book, Racism, from the French (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2000). marto@OCF.berkeley.edu

Pierre Mesnard y Mendez is a scholar and activist who has lived in several countries on both sides of the Atlantic. His favorite English writer is Swift. He may be reached through the S&D editorial office (zendive@aol.com).

Ronald F. Price has a first degree in Biology and a Ph.D. in Comparative Education. He has taught in technical colleges in the UK and trained teachers in the UK, in Ghana, and at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, from where he retired. He has also taught in Bulgaria (1962) and in China (1965-67). rprice13@bigpond.net.au

Joe Ramsey is a Ph.D. candidate in English and American Literature at Tufts University. The title of his dissertation-in-progress is “Red Pulp: Radicalism and Repression in U.S. Mass-Popular Fiction 1930s-1960s.” joseph.ramsey@tufts.edu

E. San Juan is co-director of the Philippine Forum in New York and also heads the Philippines Cultural Studies Center in Connecticut. He was recently Fulbright professor of American Studies at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and visiting professor of cultural studies at National Tsing Hua University (Taiwan). His recent books are Racism and Cultural Studies (Duke Univ. Press) and Working through the Contradictions (Bucknell Univ. Press). philcsc@earthlink.net

Amy Wendling is completing a Ph.D. in Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. She spent 2003 and 2004 in Amsterdam and Berlin doing research on Marx's unpublished writings from the 1850s. She is the author of "Partial Liberations: The Machine, Gender, and High-Tech Culture" (International Studies in Philosophy 2002) and "Are All Revolutions Bourgeois? Revolutionary Temporality in Karl Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" (Strategies 2003). aew144@psu.edu

Gregory Wilpert is a sociologist (Ph.D., Brandeis University) and freelance writer, who lives in Caracas. He first came to Venezuela as a Fulbright Scholar. He now edits the website www.venezuelanalysis.com and is writing a book for Verso Books on Venezuela during Chávez's presidency. greg@venezuelanalysis.com

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