Wednesday January 4th, 2012
Featured Books!
The Politics of Genocide - New Edition by Edward S. Herman and David Peterson
The Crisis and the Left: Socialist Register 2012 edited by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, and Vivek Chibber
The Rise of the Tea Party by Anthony DiMaggio
José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology edited & translated by Harry E. Vanden and Marc Becker
What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism by Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
Class Dismissed by John Marsh
Revolutionary Doctors by Steve Brouwer
The People's Lawyer by Albert Ruben
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Vol. I + Vol. II Special by István Mészáros
Buy Now—just $40!
Buy Now—just $40!
Social Structure and Forms of Consciousness, Volume II by István Mészáros
The Devil’s Milk: A Social History of Rubber by John Tully
The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism by Michael Perelman
The Science and Humanism of Stephen Jay Gould by Richard York and Brett Clark
The Law of Worldwide Value by Samir Amin
Mexico’s Revolution Then and Now by James D. Cockcroft
Agriculture and Food in Crisis by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar
The Crisis This Time: Socialist Register 2011 by Leo Panitch, Greg Albo, and Vivek Chibber
The Ecological Rift by John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York
Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank by Éric Toussaint and Damien Millet
The Socialist Alternative by Michael A. Lebowitz
Antonio Gramsci by Antonio A. Santucci
The Politics of Genocide by Edward S. Herman & David Peterson
‘The Dangers are Great, the Possibilities Immense’
The Ongoing Political Struggle in India
It is always easy to criticize and dismiss an argument in its weakest formulation. Attacking the policies of the security-centric Indian state establishment, particularly the Home Minister, today does not need much daring. So let us instead take the benign, almost humanist utterance of the Prime Minister in his address to state police chiefs in September 2009: don’t forget, he said, that the Maoist movement has support among the poorest of the poor in the country. Those on the left opposing the impending armed state offensive often invoke this quote from the PM to buttress their point about how these are really poor people, innocent civilians and ordinary villagers who will suffer if the offensive is undertaken … | more |