From New Left Review, what are the key features and dynamics of the global political economy that the left needs to understand? Adam Blanden on the four maladies of global capitalism. Is capitalism all that bad? Victor Feraru reviews Capitalism Must Die by Stephanie McMillan. An anthropologist tries to understand capitalism by studying a Japanese delicacy: Jedediah Purdy reviews The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (and more). Yahya Madra and Ceren Ozselcuk (Bogazici): The Party and Post-Capitalist Politics: A Missed Encounter? McKenzie Wark reviews Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams. A worthy successor to Marx? David Runciman reviews PostCapitalism: A Guide to our Future by Paul Mason (and more and more and more). Paul Mason on how the end of capitalism has begun. Kate Aronoff on how reports of capitalism’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Mike Konczal interviews Robert Reich, author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few.
