Gramsci’s “Jacobin Prince” and Leading Light Communism Jacob Brown LLCO.org Part 2/2 of a series on Leading Light Communism and the Writings of Antonio Gramsci Read part 1 here: https://llco.org/leading-light-communism-and-the-writings-of-antonio-gramsci/ In Greek Mythology, there is a story about how humanity received fire. The Titan Prometheus stole fire from the gods to give it to humans. Prometheus went the home of …
Comments on Agriculture and Food in Crisis (2010, Monthly Review Press) ed. by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar. LLCO.org In the period between 2006 and 2008, a world food crisis emerged. Agriculture and Food in Crisis (2010, Monthly Review Press) is an anthology of articles describing the causes and effects of this crisis. The collection is edited by Fred Magdoff …
Hitler’s Beneficiaries (2005) by Gotz Aly reviewed Prairie Fire LLCO.org Gotz Aly’s book Hitler’s Beneficiaries (2005) is groundbreaking. Aly breaks with the dogmatic view held by many myth-makers on the “left” that the German working class despised Hitler’s tyranny. It dispenses with the shared mythology found among almost all First Worldists, be they Trotskyist or Marxist-Leninist or whatever. Aly thoroughly …
Review of André Gunder Frank’s Lupenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopment LLCO.org André Gunder Frank’s Lumpenbourgeoisie: Lumpendevelopement, written in 1972, is a short summary of the evolution of dependency in Latin America from the colonial period through the neocolonial period up to the 1970s. Frank shows how the class structure of Latin American countries evolved in connection with changes between the imperialist countries and …
Book review of Malcolm Caldwell’s The Wealth of Some Nations LLCO.org Malcolm Caldwell was one of the only Westerners to visit Kampuchea (Cambodia) under the “Khmer Rouge” regime. He is mostly remembered as the academic activist who was assassinated in Democratic Kampuchea on December 23rd, 1978, shortly after interviewing Pol Pot. The Western media, starved for anything that could be …
The Slum within the Global Countryside: Reflections inspired by Mike Davis’ Planet of Slums LLCO.org “The brutal tectonics of neoliberal globalization since 1978 are analogous to the catastrophic process that shaped a ‘Third World’ in the first place, during the era of late-Victorian imperialism (1870-1900). At the end of the nineteenth century, the forcible incorporation into the world market of …
Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty was first published in 1981 as a response to the World Bank’s Brandt Report. Even today, decades after it was first published, Hayter’s book is more accurate than not in its depiction of the most glaring fact about our world today, the gap between the rich and poor countries. Hayter’s book is certainly more accurate than the accounts of First Worldists. Even though Hayter may not be fully correct, the overall politics of this work are. Hayter’s work serves as a good introduction to the work of dependency theorists who have come to correct conclusions even though they, often, work within academia. Her work should be placed alongside the work of authors like André Gunder Frank, Walter Rodney, and Samir Amin.
Review: Teresa Hayter’s The Creation of World Poverty (Part 1 of 2) Read part 2 here. Prairie Fire LLCO.org The most glaring fact about our world today is the tremendous gap between the wealthy countries and the poor countries. This division of global society is sometimes referred to as the First World versus the Third World, the global city versus …
Book review: The Cleanest Race (2010) by B. R. Myers LLCO.org The Cleanest Race (2010) is a must read for those trying to understand northern Korea. Ultimately, the book aims to influence US policy toward northern Korea in order to further imperialist ends. In that sense, it is a book by the enemy for the enemy. Even so, the book …
B. R. Myers YouTube Interview: The Myth of Juche LLCO.org 19 September 2014 B. R. Myers’ The Cleanest Race traced the origin of the northern Korean state and its ideology to Japanese fascism. In his latest interview, B. R. Myers continues debunking the claim that northern Korea is a far-left state. Even though northern Korea ended up allied to the Soviet …
