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Rescuing Guns, Germs, and Steel from its worst detractors

Noel Ignatiev grew up in Philadelphia in the 1940s. He wrote in his memoir, Acceptable Men, that “from the time I was a youngster I knew I wanted to dedicate my life to revolution.” His parents had both been communists and he inherited the family business, traversing over his lifetime a variety of revolutionary groupings, from Stalinist to proto-anarchist. A man ahead of his time, he maintained a steady focus on the fight against racial oppression.

A comradely criticism by Clive Bradley of some of Patrick Clawson's views on the development of capitalism in Egypt from Khamsin #9.

In partnership with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Valley Health System established the Internal Medicine Residency Program.

What lies behind the furore over sending Leopard 2 tanks to the Ukraine battlefield? Something deeper is going on, writes <strong>Daniel Lazare</strong>

Orientation The golden age of left-wing economists In part because the 1960s was still a period of capitalist abundance, there were few socialists in Yankeedom who pointed to the economic contradictions of capitalism as a motivator for the coming revolution. “Western Marxists” ignored the economy, imagining capitalism could go on forever. As first anarcho-communist and

Ecomodernists offer no solutions to contemporary problems other than technical innovation and further integration into private markets which are structured systematically by centralized state power in favour of the wealthy… Chris Smaje "Ecomodernism: a Response to my Critics", Originally published September 10, 2015 by Small Farm Future In 2017, the then Monsanto Chief Technology Officer

The Marxist historian and urban theorist died in October aged 76. As a theoretical innovator, his singular political approach is as prescient and urgent as ever.

The American sociologist Dylan Riley on fascism, thinking as therapy and the crisis of capitalist democracy.

The Federal Reserve's bid to "get wages down" reflects the enduring hold of neoliberal thought at the highest levels of economic policymaking.