The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW—“Wobblies”) in its heyday (1905-1920) was a great moment. Like Abolitionism and the Freedom…
Žižek: Too Clever by Half
I forced myself to listen to an hour-and-half talk Slavoj Žižek made in Tel Aviv this past June in which…
Still More on Business as Usual
In a previous entry I reviewed Paul Mattick’s book, Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism.…
More on Business as Usual
Thanks for this posting about Paul Mattick’s book. I went right to Amazon and bought it. This is an area…
Paul Mattick’s Business as Usual
Paul Mattick’s Business As Usual (Reaktion Books: London 2011) is a short, comparatively accessible attempt to explain the current economic…
The Communist Hypothesis
The Communist Hypothesis, by Alain Badiou, is worth reading in spite of its needless difficulty, attributable to Badiou’s being both…
Memories of Yemen: A Brooklyn Tale
SANA, Yemen (AP) December 28, 2011— Strikes spread through Yemen on Wednesday as workers demanded reforms and the dismissal of…
Notes on Surrealism & the Revolution of Everyday Life
by Penelope Rosemont “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue.”—Oscar Wilde ” .…
Behind the Euro Crisis
Behind the Euro Crisis: Germany Gambles on the Old Dream of European Hegemony By Richard Greeman German industrial and financial…
What Is a Paper?
The following is an email I recently got from a student, followed by my reply: Hi Noel! So I am…