Reviewed by Curtis Price “Early Marx also threatens the academy, being critical of the very professors who now stand guard over Marxian scholarship.” This unusual book (unusual because it’s written by a conservative physician and political scientist involved with the right-wing Hudson Institute) offers a penetrating, lucid and well-documented analysis of alienation in contemporary capitalism […]
Archives for February 2018
SCHOOL SHOOTINGS: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION
posted by Noel Ignatiev Following the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, someone posted the following comment on Facebook: Everyone wants to make school shootings about guns, but no one wants to consider that they might also have something to do with schools. I <shared> the comment on my Facebook page. My <share> elicited a number […]
The Ideal of the Broken Down: On the Neapolitan Approach to Things Technical
Alfred Sohn-Rethel Alfred Sohn-Rethel was the author of Economy and Class Structure in German Fascism and Intellectual and Manual Labor: a critique of epistemology—two important works on economics and philosophy. He spent time in Naples during the 1920s and published this article in a German newspaper. For a couple of hundred years, the informal economy has been the […]
Lift Every Voice
From a new book by Imani Perry, A History of the Black National Anthem “By asserting the cross-cultural and multigenre and style collage of black formalist rituals, I, like [Ralph] Ellison, am disagreeing with a good deal of African American studies criticism. A distinction has sometimes been made by such critics that treats art (or […]
Letter From Huntsville: “Look Out For One Another”
by Curtis Price Through an unknown Facebook friend, I was added to a “secret” Facebook group of some 2,000-odd folks in northern Alabama, where I live. You can’t join, you have to be referred and vetted as trustworthy. I can’t call out its colorful name (which loosely translates as “Look Out For One Another [LOFOA],” […]