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Monday, 19 March 2007 |
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James Petras
Many progressive overseas academics, politicians, journalists and commentators have glowingly characterized the Evo Morales regime as 'radical', 'revolutionary' and part of an 'anti-imperialist bloc'. Academics as diverse as Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Emir Sader, Heinz Dietrich, Marta Hanecker and Immanuel Wallerstein have described Evo Morales as part of a new leftist wave sweeping Latin America. What is striking about these academic celebrants of President Morales, is the total absence of any empirical analysis of his recent political trajectory and the socio-economic and public policies implemented during his first 15 months in office.
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Sunday, 18 March 2007 |
Saswat Pattanayak Vijay Prashad, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, The New Press, New York, 2007. Hardcover, 384 pp. Amazon/NP The Darker Nations is a critical historiography of the Third World. Vijay Prashad's deeply instructive as well as occasionally mordant looks at events and processes that made up the history of oppressed peoples in the 20th century comprise this brilliant work. It is a book profound for being peremptory, and absolutely necessary for being so relevant today that it is imperative for activists and researchers alike. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (184) | Quote this article on your site | Print | E-mail |
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Wednesday, 28 February 2007 |
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Radical Notes Michael Lebowitz's Build it Now: Socialism for the Twenty-First Century is not just another book about the  specificities of the Bolivarian Revolution. Like the Communist Manifesto, its purpose is to identify the participants in the ongoing class struggle - the fundamental struggle between the needs of capital and the needs of human beings - underlying contemporary capitalism and its crisis, exposing the contours of their practices. It refreshes the classical Marxist notion of a continuous and uninterrupted revolution of radical needs as practice of the working class, as its struggle for self-emancipation. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (190) | Quote this article on your site | Print | E-mail |
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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
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Pratyush Chandra "Criticism - the most keen, ruthless and uncompromising criticism - should be directed, not against parliamentarianism or parliamentary activities, but against those leaders who are unable - and still more against those who are unwilling - to utilise parliamentary elections and the parliamentary rostrum in a revolutionary and communist manner. Only such criticism-combined, of course, with the dismissal of incapable leaders and their replacement by capable ones-will constitute useful and fruitful revolutionary work that will simultaneously train the "leaders" to be worthy of the working class and of all working people, and train the masses to be able properly to understand the political situation and the often very complicated and intricate tasks that spring from that situation." (V.I. Lenin, Left-Wing Communism: an Infantile Disorder, Chapter 7) Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (170) | Quote this article on your site | Print | E-mail |
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Thursday, 08 February 2007 |
Adam's Fallacy: A Guide to Economic Theology has critical  implications not only for the official discipline of mainstream economics, but also for various contemporary anti-capitalist movements, which frequently reproduce 'Adam's fallacy', inheriting the moral philosophy and dualisms that constitute this fallacy . Naturally, professional economists like Robert Solow , Brad DeLong and others have been quite actively seeking to dampen the book's impact. However, the book contains several lessons that are crucial for people interested or involved in social transformation, especially after the collapse of the major 20th century socialist experiments. In this regard, Radical Notes (RN) decided to forward a few questions to Prof Duncan K Foley (DKF) for his responses, which we reproduce here. Readers might find other articles that we published earlier on the book helpful.
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