Contents

• Peter Lach-Newinsky
  The Continuing Charm of Marx

  “It would seem that a (‘mature’) sifting out of the obsolete and the still useful is called for, i.e. a dialectical integration of Marx into contemporary radical thought ‘on a higher level’. There are many core elements in Marx that are of continuing relevance.”

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• Norman Madarasz
  The Historic Break between Marxism and Communism

  “If Marxism faces a future in the twenty-first century, it will have to better its attempts at a unifying theory. Furthermore, it will have to formulate the means by which to reach a public increasingly stripped of the rational tools by which to understand the communist sentiment in human actions.”

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• Gideon Polya
  “To each according to his needs” for Spaceship Earth

  “‘From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs’ needs to be urgently applied internationally in view of the horrendous avoidable mortality in the world.”

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• Ron Jacobs
  The Spectre Still Haunts: A Marxist’s Look at Socialism in the 21st Century

  “The intriguing question for the future of a world where capital and its rule of the market dominates is twofold. The first and most obvious is can such a world survive? The second is can the rule of capital survive? I suggest that the answer is either one or the other.”

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• J A Miller
  When Determinisms Clash (Poetry)

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• Ismael Hossein-zadeh
  Parasitic Imperialism

  “Recent imperial policies of the United States are often prompted not so much by a desire to expand the empire’s wealth beyond the existing levels, but by a desire to appropriate the lion’s share of the existing wealth and treasure for the military establishment.”

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• Yifat Susskind
  Palestine in the Age of Hamas: The Challenge of Progressive Solidarity

  “The world is full of examples of people who were told to wait until ‘afterwards’ for their rights to be respected. Many of those people are now dead, in exile, or in jail.”

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• Steve Davis
  Dark Lords: An Examination of the Psychology behind Free Market Theory

  “What is it in the culture of Britain that would give rise to an economic outlook so focused on short-term gain that it might well destroy itself and the social system that gave it birth?”

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• Girish Mishra
  On Harry Potter’s Popularity

  “The enormous scale of the sale of Harry Potter is undoubtedly due to the changed nature and scale of propaganda in the ongoing age of globalization. One might have noticed this in India recently where the newspapers and TV channels seldom care for Indian writers and their works.”

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• Little Big Pine
  In My Heart of Hearts (Poetry)

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• Peter Lach-Newinsky
  The Machiavelli to the Masters Suite (Poetry)

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