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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

	Current Issue #50 Vol 23, No. 2 For texts of articles published within the past year, please contact us (info@sdonline.org) about buying a copy of the journal, or else contact our publishers through their website: www.tandf.co.uk/journals ______________ Table of Contents ______________ 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 *Designed & Powered by MediaTek*_
			Notes on Contributors Marcella Bencivenni was born in Italy but moved to New York City in 1995 to undertake graduate studies in American history. She is currently Assistant Professor at Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, and has recently joined the S&D editorial board. She has published several articles and reviews on issues related to Italian American history and American radicalism; she is now completing a book on Italian immigrant radical culture in the United States. mbencivenni@hostos.cuny.edu Terry Bisson is a science fiction author who has also written about Mumia Abu Jamal (On a Move), Nat Turner, and John Brown. His latest books are Greetings and Numbers Don’t Lie. tbisson@rcn.com Georgy Katsiaficas is finishing a book on South Korean social movements. A new edition of his book Subversion of Politics is being prepared by AK Press. katsiaficas@wit.edu Pat McGeever taught political science at Indiana University (IUPUI) from 1971 to 2002. He has been involved in a variety of activist organizations in Indianapolis, including the Nuclear Weapons Freeze, the Alliance for Democracy, the Living Wage Campaign, and the Peace and Justice Center. Since 2002, he has also worked as a playwright; seven of his plays have been produced to date. iztd100@iupui.edu Franciszek W. Mleczko is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the College of Agriculture in Warsaw and head of the sociology department at the Academy of Computer Science and Economics in Olsztyn. He pioneered research on measuring individual and group professional and social activity and has written extensively on rural and general sociology (his Frugality and Fiscal Extravagance in Rural societies was a non-fiction book of the year in Poland in 1976). In 1993–95 he was chief adviser to the Polish Prime Minister. Frank Rosengarten is co-founder, with Mike Brown, of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy. He has written extensively on 19th- and 20th-century Italian literature and history, and edited the two-volume English-language edition of Antonio Gramsci’s Letters from Prison (1994). His most recent book is Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the Struggle for a New Society. frosengart@aol.com Victor Wallis, S&D’s managing editor, teaches in the department of Liberal Arts at the Berklee College of Music. His writings on political ecology have been translated into six languages. zendive@aol.com

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