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News & Letters, Lead Anti-capitalist struggles in the 'new' South AfricaA decade and a half after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains caught in an assortment of contradictions--foremost of which is the growing friction between the government of Thabo Mbeki and the rise of new freedom struggles. Most striking about those struggles is how seriously many take the ideas of liberation. Editorial Fifth year of bloody Iraq warThe fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has come and gone with still no end in sight to the disastrous conflict. The war and the sectarian conflict it precipitated has devastated Iraqi society and opened up dangerous new theater of confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. Global warming or revolutionary change?If left unchecked, global warming will likely lead to the spread of malaria and other diseases, increased drought, famine, and coastal flooding. As thousands of rallies in April are planned to challenge that reality, will they also push the climate action movement toward revolutionary, new human beginnings? From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya Uprooting capitalism's law of valueFar from breaking with history, the structure of Capital is deeply rooted in history. Raya Dunayevskaya argued against Stalin's philosophers rewriting Marx's greatest work to bolster their totalitarian rule and against theorists who tailended the Russian state. The central issue, capitalism's law of value and surplus value, remains alive today. Book announcement Reclaiming Marx's Capital, A Refutation of the Myth of InconsistencyThe myth of inconsistency in Marx's Capital has served to justify the censorship of Marx's critique of political economy and present-day research based upon it. By modifying the standard interpretation of Marx's value theory in two simple ways, the recent "temporal single-system interpretation" eliminates all of the alleged inconsistencies. Essay The Theory of Revolution in the Young MarxDespite deficiencies in Michael Lowy's discussion of the relation between Marx's Theory of revolution to dialectical philosophy, his Theory of Revolution in the Young Marx is a richly documented thesis of an integral connection between the development of Marx's theory of revolution and the early thinking and activity of the working class after 1843. MORE ARTICLES... |
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