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Book Review: Communism (Short Histories of Big Ideas Series)
Full text linkReview of Communism (Short Histories of Big Ideas Series) by Mark Sandl
Susanne Soederberg, Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North South Relations. Winnipeg and London: Arbeiter Ring Publishing and Pluto Press, 2006, 206 pp., $24.95 paper.
Full text linkAcademics and activists who have followed the discussions of globalization in the World Social Forum literature and in progressive publications will readily agree with Soederberg that globalization does not simply signify an “inevitable and unstoppable” (26) process. In focusing on the concept of global governance, she contributes to the critical problematization of an international economic regime which all too frequently is treated as benevolent in its consequences and independent of politics. Soederberg strongly resists mythological descriptions of global (and regional) financial and other economic regimes, by pursuing an historical - materialist analysis of the emergence of the relevant organizations and institutions, always identifying the role of power, political influence and political planning in their construction. She nimbly walks the reader through a plethora of institutions which even the informed lay-person and political activist will not know how to distinguish. She obviously possesses enormous knowledge of their workings and their history. In this sense this is a very useful book to read, particularly for those who are not specialists in the fields of international relations, Third World development or the politics of international financial institutions
Book Review: Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Full text linkReview of Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right, by Roy J. Adam
Book Review: The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire
Full text linkReview of The New Imperialists: Ideologies of Empire, Colin Mooers (Ed.
Book Review: I am not a Man, I am Dynamite! Friedrich Nietzche and the Anarchist Tradition
No full textReview of I am not a Man, I am Dynamite! Friedrich Nietzche and the Anarchist Tradition, by John Moore and Spencer Sunshine (Eds.
Towards a Historical Materialist Approach to Racism in Post-\u27Unification\u27 Germany
Full text linkThis paper problematizes the subtext of ‘race’, which underpinned the contradictory process of German ‘unification’. The following question guides my inquiry: how and why have ‘white’ East German workers in post-‘unification’ Germany come to think of their ‘Germanness’/’whiteness’ as meaningful? Clearly drawing from the work of David R. Roediger, I argue that ‘white’ East German workers were paid the ‘wages of Germanness’. The concept is fleshed out as I interrogate three interrelated dimensions of changes pertaining to the lived experiences of (‘white’) East German workers: (1) German citizenship regulations with its lines of inclusion and exclusion; (2) the qualifier East denoting the existence of various degrees of Germanness; (3) individualized market dependence giving rise to conflicted emotions. Setting in motion a process of extensive and complex change, ‘unification’ had an impact on social relations of power, lived experiences and cultural means. The concept ‘wages of Germanness’ expresses the connections between political, ideological and economic aspects of ‘unification’, and further brings into focus the historical legacy of racialized notions of Germanness. Using the framework of historical materialism, this paper articulates a critique of hegemonic ideology, which suggests that racism in post-‘unification’ Germany was, by and large, spatially confined to East Germany
Book Review: Anarchy and Art: from the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Full text linkReview of Anarchy and Art: from the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall, by Allan Antlif