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Socialism and strategy

Stephen D'Arcy (Huron): The Rise of the Post-New Left Political Vocabulary. Michael Burawoy (UC-Berkeley): Marxism after Polanyi. James Steinhoff (Western Ontario): Transhumanism and Marxism: Philosophical Connections. Alessandra Asteriti (Glasgow): Kairos and Clinamen: Revolutionary Politics and the Common Good. Sabrina Zajak (Ruhr): Pathways of Transnational Activism: A Conceptual Framework. From Contention, a special issue on the study of social protest. Socialism and strategy: Anthony Zurbrugg on a libertarian critique of Leninism. From Affinities, a special issue on antiracist anarchism. From Fifth Estate, Layla AbdelRahim on education as the domestication of inner space; Jonny Ball on hypocrisies of the Left: In their search for leaders to revere, socialist sects defend the worst dictators, but they've done this since the days of Stalin and Mao; the continuing relevance of Michael Bakunin: Mark Leier on what today’s activists can learn from “the father of anarchism”; and Alex Knight on the paradox of capitalism and magnetic anarchist strategy: How do we live within capitalism, immersed in its institutions, and still fight against it? From Modern Slavery: The Libertarian Critique of Civilization, strangers in an alien world: Wolfi Landstreicher on being an anarchist at the beginning of the 21st century; and Jason McQuinn reviews Twilight of the Machines by John Zerzan. From the latest issue of Review of Capital as Power, Joseph Baines (York): Wal-Mart’s Power Trajectory: A Contribution to the Political Economy of the Firm; and Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan (York): Can Capitalists Afford Recovery? Three Views on Economic Policy in Times of Crisis.