Sects and ‘new left’ disillusionment. Mike Macnair reviews P Blackledge, N Davidson (eds) Alasdair MacIntyre’s engagement with Marxism: selected writings 1953-1974, Brill (Historical materialism series),... »
Philosophy
Alasdair MacIntyre’s engagement with Marxism: selected writings 1953-1974 – P Blackledge & N Davidson (eds)
Sects and ‘new left’ disillusionment. Mike Macnair reviews P Blackledge, N Davidson (eds) Alasdair MacIntyre’s engagement with Marxism: selected writings 1953-1974, Brill (Historical materialism series), 2008, pp443, £89. This book was an interesting project, but is less interesting as a product. Alasdair MacIntyre is an eminent moral philosopher. He is chiefly famous for After virtue (1981), which... »
Lars T Lih, Boris Kargalitsky, Hillel Ticktin and other authors to speak at Communist University 2009
Communist University 2009 August 8-15, South London. Book Now! The CPGB’s annual school – the Communist University – is different. It features sharp clashes of opinion ... »
Phil Hearse (ed) Take the power to change the world; Michael Lebowitz: Build it now: socialism for the 21st century; Cliff Slaughter: Not without a storm: towards a communist manifesto for the age of globalisation
Negative critique and positive alternatives Mike Macnair reviews the following books: Phil Hearse (ed) Take the power to change the world (Socialist Resistance, 2007, pp144, £6); - Michael Lebowitz: Build it now: socialism for the 21st century (Monthly Review... »
Lenin reloaded: toward a politics of truth – Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, Slavoj Zizek
Hegel Reloaded? James Turley reviews: Sebastian Budgen Stathis Kouvelakis, Slavoj Zizek (eds) Lenin reloaded: toward a politics of truth Durham, 2007, pp334, £12.99 There are three named editors on the cover of Lenin reloaded, ... »
Philosophical Arabesques- Nikolai Bukharin
Derek Wall, a founder member of Green Revolution, the socialist platform in the Green Party of England and Wales, reviews Nikolai Bukharin Philosophical Arabesques Pluto Press, 2005,... »