From Interface: A Journal for and about Social Movements, a special issue on crises, social movements and revolutionary transformations. David Lane (Cambridge): Global Perspectives on European and Central Asian Trajectories of Change from State Socialism. Sebastian Berg (Humboldt): "Post-Communism", Radicalism, and the Intellectual Left: A Comparative Approach. The Thinking Man’s Marxist: More on Why Not Socialism? by G.A. Cohen. Present perfect, or the time of post-socialism: Suspended between negation and anticipation, post-socialist societies are a beginning with no end. Unlike in eastern Europe, Marxism in the West was never entirely discredited by proximity to state socialism; this has led to divergent intellectual tendencies in the last twenty years. An interview with Cyrus Bina on economic crises, Marx's value theory, and 21st century capitalism. The main strategy open to crisis-ridden capitalism that doesn't directly risk class antagonism, is the creation of artificial scarcity through regimes of intellectual property. From Anarchy, Jason McQuinn on Max Stirner, the anarchist every ideologist loves to hate; Lawrence Jarach on why he's not an anti-primitivist; and a review of Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire by David Graeber. You'd be forgiven for thinking that a group of zine-publishing techie squatters into rock music, baiting the State and defending the working class were part of the anarchist left, but Italy's Casa Pound movement is symptomatic of the Right's growing ability to assimilate progressive agendas into a toxic and populist political brew. Gavin McInnes, a “race-mixing, gay-loving, pro-choice, atheist, anarchist who hates all liberals”, on the innate supremacism of the anti-racist movement. Gary Tedman on determining your philosophy dialectically.
