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They are a key part of<br>the U.S. governments ongoing campaign to undermine the Cuban<br>Revolution, and stand in egregious violation of international<br>law. Most importantly, the sanctions are cruelly designed for their<br>harmful impact on the Cuban people.<br>In this concise and sober account, Salim Lamrani explains everything<br>you need to know about U.S. economic sanctions against<br>Cuba: their origins, their provisions, how they contravene international<br>law, and how they affect the lives of Cubans. 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In this volume, Michael A. Lebowitz considers the nature, tendencies, and contradictions of those societies. Beginning with the constant presence of shortages within real socialism, Lebowitz searches for the inner relations which generate these patterns. He finds these, in particular, in what he calls vanguard relations of production, a relation which takes the apparent form of a social contract where workers obtain benefits not available to their counterparts in capitalism but lack the power to decide within the workplace and society.<br><br>While these societies were able to claim major achievements in areas from health care to education to popular culture, the separation of thinking and doing prevented workers from developing their capacities as fully developed human beings. The relationship within real socialism between the vanguard as conductor and a conducted working class, however, did not only lead to the deformation of workers and those elements necessary for the building of socialism; it also created the conditions in which enterprise managers emerged as an incipient capitalist class, which was an immediate source of the crises of real socialism. As he argued in The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development,<br> Lebowitz stresses the necessity to go beyond the hierarchy inherent in the relation of conductor and conducted (and beyond the vanguard Marxism which supports this) to create the conditions in which people can transform themselves through their conscious cooperation and practicei.e., a society of free and associated producers.</p>", "author": "Michael A. 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In the process, a huge ecological rift is driven between human beings and nature, undermining the conditions of sustainable existence: a rift in the metabolic relation between humanity and nature that is irreparable within capitalist society, since integral to its very laws of motion.<br><br>Critically examining the sanguine arguments of mainstream economists and technologists, Foster, Clark, and York insist instead that fundamental changes in social relations must occur if the ecological (and social) problems presently facing us are to be transcended. Their analysis relies on the development of a deep dialectical naturalism concerned with issues of ecology and evolution and their interaction with the economy. 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He might well have been describing the long, grim history of rubber. From the early stages of primitive accumulation to the heights of the industrial revolution and beyond, rubber is one of a handful of commodities that has played a crucial role in shaping the modern world, and yet, as John Tully shows in this remarkable book, laboring people around the globe have every reason to regard it as the devils milk. All the advancements made possible by rubberindustrial machinery, telegraph technology, medical equipment, countless consumer goodshave occurred against a backdrop of seemingly endless exploitation, conquest, slavery, and war. But Tully is quick to remind us that the vast terrain of rubber production has always been a site of struggle, and that the oppressed who toil closest to the devils milk in all its forms have never accepted their immiseration without a fight.<br><br>This book, the product of exhaustive scholarship carried out in many countries and several continents, is destined to become a classic. Tully tells the story of humanitys long encounter with rubber in a kaleidoscopic narrative that regards little as outside its range without losing sight of the commodity in question. With the skill of a master historian and the elegance of a novelist, he presents what amounts to a history of the modern world told through the multiple lives of rubber.</p>", "author": "John Tully", "slug": "the-devils-milk-250613-9781583672617-john-tully", "thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/9781583672617.jpg", "default_thumbnail_image": "//redshelf-images.s3-external-1.amazonaws.com/thumbnail/default_book_thumbnail.jpg", "product_type": "book", "product_id": "250613", "product_url": "/app/ecom/book/250613/the-devils-milk-250613-9781583672617-john-tully", "bisac_codes": [ "HIS036060" ], "items_count": null, "identifiers": { "ISBN13": "9781583672310", "EISBN13": "9781583672617", "EISBN10": "1583672613" }, "drm": null, "cover_image": null, "default_cover_image": null, "book_type": null }, "relationships": { "lowest_offering": { "data": { "type": "offerings", "id": "00010000325776" } } } }, { "type": "Product", "id": "00010000250612", "attributes": { "name": "The ABCs of the Economic Crisis", "subtitle": "What Working People Need to Know", "description": "<p>The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economiststhe so-called \"experts\"still cling to bankrupt ideologies that failed to predict the crisis and offer nothing to explain it.<br>In this short, clear, and concise book, Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates explain the nature of the economic crisis. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the authors demonstrate that this crisis is not some aberration from a normally benign capitalism but rather the normal and even expected outcome of a thoroughly irrational and destructive system. No amount of tinkering with capitalism, whether it be discredited neoliberalism or the return of Keynesianism and a \"new\" New Deal, can overcome the core contradiction of the system: the daily exploitation and degradation of the majority of the worlds people by a tiny minority of business owners.<br>While the current economic maelstrom has laid bare the web of greed, corruption, and propaganda that are central to capitalism, only an aroused public, demanding the right to health care, decent employment, a secure old age, and a clean and healthy environment, can lead the United States and the world out of the worst crisis since the Great Depression and toward a system of production and distribution conducive to human happiness. This book is aimed primarily at working people, students, and activists, who want not just to understand the world but to change it.</p>", "author": "Fred Magdoff, Michael D. 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The shape and vitality of pop culture's next era will depend, at least in part, on commentators like Cullen.\"<br>Washington Post Book World<br> \"A thoroughly engaging look at American culture ... Cullen's articulate prose is spiced with wicked wit and he loves a good story ... Demonstrates a sophisticated understanding of complex cultural forces.\"<br>Publishers Weekly<br> \"Reflecting both the strengths and weaknesses of an unusually dynamic area of historical scholarship, The Art of Democracy is one of the best surveys of the history of American popular culture.\"<br>Journal of American History<br> \"An exceptionally well-written and engrossing introduction to the nonelitist art forms of American popular culture ... 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Once referred<br>to as the Abyss by Jack London, Silvertown was notorious for<br>oppressive working conditions and the relentless grind of production<br>suffered by its largely unorganized, unskilled workers. These<br>workers, fed-up with their lot and long ignored by traditional craft<br>unions, aligned themselves with the socialist-led New Unionism<br>movement. Their ensuing strike paralyzed Silvertown for three<br>months. The strike leaders including Tom Mann, Ben Tillett,<br>Eleanor Marx, and Will Thorneand many workers viewed the<br>trade union struggle as part of a bigger fight for a co-operative<br>commonwealth. With this goal in mind, they shut down Silvertown<br>and, in the process, helped to launch a more radical, modern<br>labor movement.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>Historian and novelist John Tully, author of the monumental social<br>history of the rubber industry The Devils Milk, tells the story<br>of the Silvertown strike in vivid prose. 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Building on the indicatory flashes of conceptual lightning in the Grundrisse and other works of Karl Marx, Meszaros sets out the relations of structure and agency, individual and society, base and superstructure, nature and history, in a dialectical totality open to the future.<br><br>The project is brought to its conclusion by means of critique, an analysis that shows not only the inadequacies of the thought critiqued but at the same time their social historical cause. The crucial questions are addressed through critique of the highest point of honest and brilliant thought in capitals ascending phase, that of Adam Smith, Kant, and Hegel, as well as the irrationalities and dishonesty of the apologists of the capital systems descending phase, such as Hayek and Popper. 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Communists, scholars, parents,<br>and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemies<br>for the white police state. Together they were swept up in the<br>growing resistance to apartheid, and together they experienced<br>repression and exile. Their contributions to the liberation struggle,<br>as individuals and as a couple, are undeniable. Ruth agitated<br>tirelessly for the overthrow of apartheid, first in South Africa and<br>then from abroad, and Joe directed much of the armed struggle<br>carried out by the famous Umkhonto we Sizwe. Only one of them,<br>however, would survive to see the fall of the old regime and the<br>founding of a new, democratic South Africa.<br>This book, the first extended biography of Ruth First and Joe<br>Slovo, is a remarkable account of one couple and the revolutionary<br>moment in which they lived. 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Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, Brouwer tells the story of Venezuelas Integral Community Medicine program, in which doctor-teachers move into the countryside and poor urban areas to recruit and train doctors from among peasants and workers. Such programs were first developed in Cuba, and Cuban medical personnel play a key role in Venezuela today as advisors and organizers. This internationalist model has been a great successCuba is a world leader in medicine and medical trainingand Brouwer shows how the Venezuelans are now, with the aid of their Cuban counterparts, following suit.<br>But this program is not without its challenges. It has faced much hostility from traditional Venezuelan doctors as well as all the forces antagonistic to the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions. 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