The well-travelled life and consistently lucid, radical thought of global labour’s great comparative ethnographer—and social ...

2. definitions of well-being At this point, we need to unpack the idea of well-being. The idea of a steady-state or sustainable economy puts constraints on material throughput, but does not tell us ...

One of the more telling features of the present conjuncture is the scarcity of analyses able squarely to place today’s global turbulence in geohistorical perspective. 1 In his sustained examinations ...

Three things have won conventional wars in this century; greater reserves of manpower, greater industrial potential and a reasonably functioning system of civilian administration. The strategy of the ...

I used to play basketball in Bavaria with a man born in the Ivory Coast. He had been adopted at the age of four by a white middle-class couple in Munich, both doctors. We fell in with each other ...

Donald Sassoon’s One Hundred Years of Socialism is in physical form as well as in intellectual content very suitable to its actual object of study, Western European social democracy and labourism ...

the most important events in the international socialist movement in 1960 took place in Cuba. And it may be that the most important event of 1961 will be the consolidation or overthrow of Cuba’s ...

Fernando Claudin was a leader of the Spanish Communist Party until his expulsion in 1964, and is the author of the already classic The Communist Movement: from Comintern to Cominform. 1 The analysis ...

A Tendency to Profit From a Fallen Theory Turning to Coates’ first underlying assumption, it is clearly beyond the scope of this essay to go into all the arguments for and against the theory of the ...

A Pseudo-Theory. Here we can only sketch the outlines of a critique of functionalism, focusing on its mode of perception of primitive society, on the problematic underlying this perception and the ...

5 The term ‘sub-imperialism’ was first used by Ruy Mauro Marini in his Subdesarollo y revolucion (Mexico 1969), with reference to Brazil—according to Samir Amin in La crise de l’imperialisme, by Samir ...

Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American Growth offers a vast narrative, encompassing some 150 years of us economic history since 1870, with prospective views up to 2040 or so. 1 The conclusion is ...