{"title":"Response to Julia Lovell's Maoism: A Global History","authors":"Yingjian Chen","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.292","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"379 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132842732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lukács’ Red Revolution","authors":"E. Leslie","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.182","url":null,"abstract":"Moving between autobiographical and biographical reflections on Lukács and the embeddedness of lives, his and briefly mine, in historical time, the persistent influence of his readings of culture and questions of form, science and a philosophy of praxis is to be reflected on. There is, in some quarters, a dominant Lukácsian reading of modernism, which he apparently dismisses as fragmentary and debilitating. However, there is much to be said about the ways his writings, especially the ones from the 1920s, leave traces and recurrently propel inquiry lines in less discussed areas: namely, thermal analyses of alienation and reification as picked up in Frankfurt School and Situationist thinking; synthetic color production, and communist self-activity. To observe this persistent generativity in the name of self-organization and dialectics is to value something under attack in the revival of anti-Semitism and anti-Communism in Hungary today.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114238530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Lukács’ Philosophy of Praxis to Lefebvre's Metaphilosophy of Everyday Life","authors":"Riki Scanlan","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114251495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Claudia Jones, the West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian-Caribbean News and the Rise of a New Black Radicalism in the UK and US","authors":"J. Smethurst","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.2.261","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to the Black Communist Claudia Jones as a progenitor of Black radical feminist notions of intersectionality. In Britain, Jones has also been hailed as an important part of the Black British political and cultural radical tradition. Less studied is how Jones brought a U. S. Black Left institution-building sensibility to the UK, particularly as embodied in the West Indian Gazette and Afro-Asian-Caribbean News (WIG) newspaper, helping to lay the foundation for the growth of Black Power and Black Arts in the UK. In turn, Jones and WIG brought to Black radicals in the U. S. a renewed sense of Black internationalism inspired by Africa's crossroads and its diaspora in London and other major British cities.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125503514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Proletariat in Marx and Engels' Critique of Capitalism, 1842–1848","authors":"Katjo Buissink","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.95","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.95","url":null,"abstract":"Marx and Engels’ development during the 1840s is often approached by comparing their main theoretical work before and after 1846. Yet Marx and Engels were both active participants in political movements building up to the revolutionary wave which swept across Europe in 1848–49. This political context, and their personal belief in the political importance of the proletariat, are essential for understanding why Marx and Engels followed their chosen lines of research. As early as 1843, both men see the proletariat's potential as a revolutionary group and seek to develop this relationship further in their writings. For this reason, it is necessary to interpret Marx and Engels’ works and theoretical shifts during 1842–1848 in the context of their broader political development focused on the proletariat's role in the coming revolutions. This context shapes their prominent theoretical works, highlighting the strategic principles that they developed in their activist-oriented writings.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116655441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unequal Exchange in the EU: The Case of Trade Transactions Between Germany, Italy, and Greece","authors":"G. Economakis, M. Markaki","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.21","url":null,"abstract":"In contemporary capitalism, unequal exchange is a form of imperialist exploitation. A theoretical approach to unequal exchange is traced to Marx's analysis of economic crises in Volume III of Capital and Theories of Surplus Value. Unequal exchange penetrates the world economy revealing an economic-performance hierarchy through value extraction in trade. Trade transactions between Germany, Italy, and Greece are examined to estimate the degree of unequal exchange in the European Union.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"424 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116183093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential Reserve Army and Diverging Paths of Transition in (Former) Socialist Economies","authors":"Zhun Xu","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.76","url":null,"abstract":"The causes of diverging transition paths of (former) socialist economies are best understood through a framework centered on the differences in the composition of their working classes; in particular, the sizes of their respective potential reserve armies. An examination of the historical process of market reforms in socialist economies suggests that a sizable potential reserve army could give rise to a gradual approach to market transition. In contrast, a negligible potential reserve army could lead to either a shock therapy or a long impasse.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134416051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"World Money and Oil: Theoretical and Historical Considerations","authors":"Adam Hanieh","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.50","url":null,"abstract":"Over recent years, Marx's category of world money has proven to be a useful analytical tool for understanding the preeminent global role of the US dollar. However, accompanying the emergence of the US dollar, there was a second transformation receiving much less attention in the Marxist literature on world money: the shift towards an oil-centered global capitalism. Situating oil within the account of world money can provide numerous insights. Most notably, it helps illuminate the constitutive role of violence and imperial force in the money form, as well as the linkages between social and class structures in oil-producing countries and the dominant forms of world money issued by core countries. It also raises important questions around the possible future of world money, particularly in the context of an apparent US decline and the necessary transition away from fossil fuels.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133921280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predatory Inclusion and the Flint Water Crisis","authors":"Kenyon P. Cavender","doi":"10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2023.87.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"In 2014, residents of Flint, Michigan began to experience the first effects of the years-long Flint water crisis. Mismanagement of crumbling infrastructure by the city and state and severe austerity measures exposed thousands of children to toxic levels of lead in the drinking water. While blame for this is often assigned to the officials in charge at the time, the history of Flint reveals a decades-long pattern of private and public collusion in the exploitation of city residents. The predominantly Black population of Flint has been tethered to derelict properties and excluded from opportunity through a process that Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has termed “predatory inclusion.” In Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, she provides a productive addition to the necessary conversations on how the real estate industry and its racial and class dimensions factor into the creation of environmental crises.","PeriodicalId":132404,"journal":{"name":"Science & Society","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131671208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}