Gang of One: The Fall as Anti-Group
Hailing The Fall as a mere instance of working-class subjectivity or as a set of mangled literary intakes fails to understand the terms of Mark E Smith’s critique, writes Lawrence Parker.
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Garrisoning White Power
Julian Assele reviews Gautham Rao's White Power: Policing American Slavery, arguing that its analysis of how racial domination determined American policing and notions of "public order" is further strengthened by a grounding in Marxist categories of labor command and capital accumulation.
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“Black Marxism” Under Debate, 40 Years On
Forty years after his first response to Cedric Robinson, August Nimtz's "Black Marxism": A Marxist Critique revisits a debate about the relations between race, class, and Marxism that remains as pertinent as ever. Gary Levi puts the collection under review.
A Thesis on the History of the 21st Century: Technocracy, AI, and the End of the World
Reviewing a trio of books by a sextet of ruling-class ideologues, Mathias Fuelling finds an ambient anxiety hanging over a perceived crisis in American capitalism, with visions of bolstering a Silicon Valley-led technocracy fueled by AI investment reflecting American fears over the dawn of a "Chinese Century."
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