A new issue of Left History is out. From Socialist Studies, a special issue on Rosa Luxemburg. Pierre Moscovici on the Left in Europe: What does the future hold? An answer to globalisation: Daniele Archibugi on the cosmopolitanism of the Left. From a Delhi University symposium on “Globalization, Justice and Democracy”, Leo Panitch on pursuing a just world order, and a crisis for the Left. More and more and more and more on How to Change the World by Eric Hobsbawm. Reclaim the common in communism: Capitalism and socialism present the world as private or public property — shared, immaterial creation offers an alternative. A review of The Rise of the Green Left: Inside the Worldwide Ecosocialist Movement by Derek Wall (and more and more). The urgency of creating an ecologically sustainable form of human economy is plain; while Deep Ecology may appear to be a radical alternative, it fails to focus on the key question of material social relations. From Monthly Review, Samir Amin on the trajectory of historical capitalism and Marxism’s tricontinental vocation. Among the most fatal aberrations of recent decades is that free-market liberals have assumed the mantle of economic competence; the Left needs to go on the offensive and prove that egalitarian economies are also stronger and more productive. The welfare state as prop for capitalism?: This time-honoured communist critique is too categorical — any credible approach to reforming capitalism entails not attacking the welfare state but supporting its extension on a global scale.
