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The Catechism for American Power
Abel Bisrat, May 11, 2026
Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power.
The Comfort of Conspiracy: A Review of "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"
Scott Patrick argues that Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism substitutes class analysis with conspiracy-focused explanation in its attempt to understand accommodation to imperialism among Marxist intellectuals. – Read review
Against Civil Society: A Review of Anton Jäger’s 'Hyperpolitics'
Julian Assele reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, finding fault in a conception of civil society that implicitly takes it as a neutral field of conflict rather than a weapon in class struggle used by capital to discipline racialized surplus labor. – Read review
Building Epistemic Capacity: A Review of "Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry"
Sam Dee reviews Notes Towards a Digital Workers' Inquiry by the Capacitor Collective, published by Common Notions Press. – Read review
Process and Totality: A Review of David McNally's 'Slavery and Capitalism'
David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History offers a necessary corrective to the New History of Capitalism (NHC) group by embracing Marxism's revolutionary commitments, argues Julian Assele. – Read review