Council Communist
Book Review from the February 2016 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘Marxism in a Lost Century: A Biography of Paul Mattick‘, by Gary Roth. Chicago. Haymarket Books, 2015 This biography will be of special interest to many readers of the Socialist Standard. While Paul Mattick (1904–1981) never joined the World Socialist Movement (WSM), his views […]
The Theoretical System of Karl Marx (1968)
Book Review from the 1968 – number 3 issue ofThe Western Socialist The Theoretical System of Karl Marx by Louis B. Boudin, Monthly Review Press, $7.50 The reprint of this book, sans introduction and hence free of possible reader misdirection, should be warmly received by all students of Marxism not having the good fortune […]
Marxism in the USA (1968)
Book Review from the December 1968 issue of theSocialist Standard Marxian Socialism in the United States, by Daniel Bell, Princeton University Press. 17s. 6d. This book, written over fifteen years ago, has been re-issued with a new introduction by the author. It is a history of the Socialist Party of America and the Communist […]
The Mind of a Social Democrat (1966)
Book Review from the 1966 – number 5 issue of The Western Socialist The Accidental Century by Michael Harrington (New York: Macmillan Co., 1965) Next to the world-wide Moscovite movement, the largest phony “socialist” tendency is that which is frequently referred to as “social democratic,” or, unfortunately, as “socialist.” The Scandinavian social democratic parties, […]
Where Rockfeller Rules (1913)
Book Review from the June 1913 issue of the Socialist Standard “Poverty,” by Robert Hunter. London : The Macmillan Co. 2s. net. This is a cheap reprint of a work that originally appeared in 1904 in America. It is written by a member of that body of reformers known as the Socialist Party of America. […]
Life in the New York Cities (2014)
Book Review from the World Socialist Party of the United States website: Tales of Two Cities: The Best and Worst of Times in Today’s New York, ed. John Freeman; illustrated by Molly Crabapple. Published by OR Books in association with Housing Works. The “two cities” in the title of this book are both New York. John […]