Tag: Book Review

From Policy as Technocratic Exercise to “Way Station of Tenant Power”
Reflecting on Abolish Rent, Ben Teresa argues that policymaking must become a “way stations of tenant power” rather than a technocratic adjustment to market realities.

Is Rent the Crisis? On the Tenant Union Movement, Old and New
Holden Taylor reviews Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.
Class Politics in an Age of Catastrophe
Charles Stevenson reviews On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo and articulates what the book misses about class politics.
Renewing Political Marxism
Daniel Tutt reviews Isabelle Garo’s recent Communism and Strategy,”bringing it into conversation with Laclau, Mouffe, Althusser and other authors in and responding to the communist tradition.
Class, Race, and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century US South
Charles Post interviews Michael Goldfield about his new book The Southern Key.
Jordy Cummings’s Review of Comrade
Jodi Dean responds to Jordy Cummings’s review of her book, Comrade. Is it possible to think, write, and practice a communism that is not fully determined by the debates and divisions of the twentieth century?