Man and Fighter is the subtitle of Boris Nicolaievsky and Otto Maenchen-Helfen’s biography of Karl Marx. It is also readers’ first clue that the work is something unique, something that transcends the triviality of biography. [...]
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Magdoff and Foster’s The Great Financial Crisis is an enlightening history of the current capitalist crisis that is overshadowed by the authors’ political confusion. [...] Deadly outbreaks of swine and bird flu are products of capitalism, not nature. [...] America today has a reputation for avarice, individualism, and a crude religiosity. These are not characteristics found in colonial America in great abundance. [...] Fischer over at Notes from Underground recently blogged about the BBC’s miniseries adaptation of Dickens’s Little Dorrit and the critique of capitalism implicit in it. I can’t comment on that work as the only Dickens I’ve read is his 1854 novel Hard Times, but that’s fine because Hard Times is one of the finest [...] |
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