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How can the Left win?

From the latest issue of New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Gary Blank (York): Gender, Production, and the "the Transition to Capitalism": Assessing the Historical Basis for a Unitary Materialist Theory. Klaus Hagendorf (Nanterre): Crowding Out Capitalism: A Law of Historical Materialism. An interview with Daniel Rubin, author of Can Capitalism Last? A Marxist Update. A review of How to Read Marx’s Capital by Stephen Shapiro. From Jacobin, Zombie Marx: Mike Beggs on the arrogance of Marxist economists; an excerpt from Living in the End Times by Slavoj Zizek on the Jacobin spirit; and Alan Johnson on Zizek and the power of nonsense. An interview with Slavoj Zizek: "Let's speak frankly, no bullshit, most of the left hates me even though I am supposed to be one of the world's leading communist intellectuals". If Communist regimes systematically imprison, torture and execute autonomous-minded intellectuals, why is it that so many Western intellectuals enthusiastically support these regimes? The Left’s dangerous illusions: A review of Showdown with Evil: Our Struggle Against Tyranny and Terror by Jamie Glazov. A review of The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development by Michael Lebowitz (and more). Should the Left become social democratic? The central difference between social democracy and communism is the latter's acceptance of the category of imperialism; other differences derive from it. How can the Left win? Richard Seymour investigates. A review of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael Kazin. More on Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World. How socialists built America: An excerpt from John Nichols's The “S” Word: A Short History of an American Tradition... Socialism (and more).