A new issue of Scottish Left Review is out. From Ameriquests, Julius Grey on the ideology of capitalism. How the state makes global capitalism, and how global capitalism makes the state? Leading political economists debate the arguments in Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s The Making of Global Capitalism. Mark Trekson reviews Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift. Lenin led a successful workers’ revolution, but are his ideas about organization still relevant today? Sheldon Richmond reviews Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: The Political Philosophy of Kai Nielsen. What is to be done? Bhaskar Sunkara, James Turley, and Ben Blumberg on conversations on the Left. Putting the sect into sectarian: Louis Proyect goes inside the International Socialist Organization. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the World Socialist Web Site has a section called “Why I read the WSWS: Letters from Readers”.
