Volume 21 Number 3
Posted May 5th, 2009 by | In this issue we continue RM's longstanding engagement with the work of Antonio Gramsci. Contemporary Gramsci scholars—those who work with and on the categories and modes of analysis pioneered by Gramsci—have demonstrated across our pages the significance of Gramsci's contributions to opening up and rethinking the Marxist tradition and to analyzing the changing modalities of social reality. Now, especially, when Marxian ideas are receiving a new hearing and increased attention, and when the capitalist system (and not just one or another aspect of contemporary politics or economics) is being interrogated and called into question—when “the old is dying but the |
| new cannot be born” and thus “a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”—Gramsci's ideas acquire increased relevance. We are therefore pleased to offer a symposium on Peter Ives's recent book, Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School. 21-3 Contents Complete Editors' Introduction | |
| Electronic access to back issues: We are pleased to announce that the project of scanning and digitizing all back issues of RETHINKING MARXISM has been completed. Please encourage your library to secure access to the contents--the editors' introduction, articles, essays, reviews, symposia, art, and fiction--of all current and back issues, dating back to the very first issue in 1988. |
Political Economy of Right Now special section: Marxist analyses of the current economic crisis
GM's Tragedy: The System Strikes Back
Posted June 15th, 2009 by Rick Wolff
The greatest tragedies among many in the collapse and bankruptcy of General Motors concern what is not happening. There are those solutions to GM's problems not being considered by Obama's administration. There are the solutions not being demanded by the United Auto Workers Union (UAW). There are all the solutions not even being discussed by most left commentators on the disaster. Finally there are crucial aspects of GM's demise not getting the attention they deserve.
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Posted May 26th, 2009 by Rick WolffOn the Militancy of Labor in the US
Posted April 7th, 2009 by michaelhillardStephen Greenhouse’s otherwise effective synopsis of the history of U.S. labor militancy (“In America, Labor Has an Unusually Long Fuse” April 5, 2009, Week in Review, The New York Times) suffers from a simple but profound omission. A key factor explaining the decline of labor militancy since the halcyon days of the 1930s and 1940s has been American employers’ virulent repression of labor militancy and unions per se that transformed the character of American labor as an institution as well as U.S. workers’ political culture, and made such basic tools of labor militancy as a legal strike a suicidal act.
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