New Left Review - new issue out now

The May/June issue of New Left Review is out now, featuring the following essays:

Susan Watkins: Another Turn of the Screw?

Beneath the rolling surface of the Euro-crisis, a further chapter of the EU integration project is underway. Susan Watkins on the institutional machinery Berlin is imposing across the Union, and the political stakes – and hypocrisies – laid bare by the struggle.

Michel Aglietta: The European Vortex

Global economic turmoil has exposed the structural flaws in the single currency. Amid deepening divergences between industrial north and debt-laden south, Michel Aglietta assesses the Eurozone’s chances of recovery, and the impact of its continued travails on the world economy.
Michel Aglietta is author of A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience.

Perry Anderson Ronald Fraser

Tribute to the author of Blood of Spain, locating the impulse behind his oeuvre in a commitment to explore lived experience. Reconstructions of work, war, politics and subjectivity, from Napoleonic era to post-Fordist present.
Amongst others, Perry Anderson is the author of The New Old World and Spectrum.

Ronald Fraser: Politics as Daily Life

How are collective mobilizations refracted through the prism of personal experience – and in what conditions can individual histories be constituted as history? Ronald Fraser reflects on memory, method and militancy.
Ronald Fraser is author of In Hiding, In Search of a Past  and Napoleon's Cursed War: Popular Resistance in the Spanish Peninsular War, 1808-1814.

Alèssi Dell’Umbria: The Sinking of Marseille

The recent fate of France’s second city – post-war decline followed by modish resurgence – seen in the longe durée by its radical historian. A social and political archaeology  of Marseille, amid the steady dismantling of its urban worlds.

Roberto Schwarz: Political Iridescence

Brazil’s foremost literary critic engages with the autobiography of Caetano Veloso, its best-known musician. The dense wave of relations between 60s counter-culture and left movements, and its rending by years of dictatorship and capitalist triumph.
Roberto Schwarz is the author of forthcoming Verso book, Two Girls

The issue also features the following book reviews:

Fredric Jameson on Francis Spufford, Red Plenty. A documentary-cum-fable reconstructs the lost future of the Khrushchev era.
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Amongst others, Fredric Jameson is the author of Representing Capital: A Reading of Volume One.

Tom Hazeldine on D. R. Thorpe, Supermac. Lengthy apologia for Harold Macmillan from a serial Tory biographer.
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Gregory Elliot on Lucio Magri, The Tailor of Ulm. The trajectory of Italian communism, analysed by an unillusioned participant-observer.
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Paul Buhle on Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out the Vintage. Chronicle of the United Farm Workers and their mercurial leader, Cesar Chavez.
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Paul Buhle is author of It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest.

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Dear sirs economists, philosophers.   The scientist of the new direction in Russian philosophy and the economic theory represents a subject of modern interpretation of a method of a triyedinstvo for application in the organization of economic (economic) systems.   Quintessence of Russian philosophy and the economic theory is the triyedinstvo or vseedinstvo method. Modern interpretation of this method, on the basis of achievements of the advanced directions in these areas also allows to speak about novelty of the direction. The innovative essence is that the methodology a triyedinstvo from the idealistic beginning is applied. This methodology is stated in my new book - Bases of methodology of Russian economic school. / V. M. Chefonov — Irkutsk: Publishing house БГУЭП, 2011. - 247с. ISBN 978-5-7253-2330-6     In what novelty of the direction as a whole?   In that the material on construction of economic systems on the basis of use of methodology of a triyedinstvo from the idealistic beginning is given. This methodology, without destroying the saved-up experience, simply builds on it the harmonizing beginning. Therefore this methodology works to the dress and together with before saved-up experience of the organization of economic systems.   In what being of this method?   This method of the organization of systems connects three subjects, three methods, three tendencies of life of to some extent isolated system of an economy in uniform system.     I will present a being of structure of this method.   Let's cause these three methods essentially, i.e. on the substance of their structure, to a construction principle:   Monistichesky method (metaphysics). Fundamental principle of the organization of communications of components of this method is the principle of domination of one of properties, elements, qualities in any system, as leads to formation of monistichesky (metaphysical) methodology of the organization of system of components involved in a turn. Dominating forms of components three is material, existential, ideal.   Dialectics. The dialectic method as the dominating organizing beginning accepts a methodological principle of a contradiction to use. Dialectic a method three is materialistic, existential, idealistic   Triyedinstvo. Triyedinstvo as a methodological principle is formed in the conditions of a harmonious form of the organization of all variety of the components involved in a turn. Therefore, there are three methods of a triyedinstvo is a triyedinstvo from the materialistic beginning, from existential, from idealistic.   The fundamental principle of each of methods the is a monad, a substance, a form. Which reveal in three subject and methodological bases. Three subjects: the material – existential - ideal. Three methods: monisticheskiya – dialectic - triune. Three tendencies or qualities of process of life: evolution – revolution - jump.   All these three subject and methodological bases exist at the same time in parallel consecutive взаимоувязанных communications.   In what novelty of application of this method in the organization of economic systems?   Novelty is in the economic theory that the modern economic system has three levels of persons of a property is a private property, state (collective), interstate. Any of current economic (philosophical) schools doesn't allow to organize harmoniously such three-level structure of economic process. Russian economic school on the methodological structure is based on a harmonious form of connection of three parties of economy (economy).   In what being of structure of modern economic (economic) system?   Economy (economy as a whole) it:   Three types of work necessary for performance of economic functions (production, an exchange, goods use) are physical, administrative, intellectual.   Three spheres of application of these three types of work are material, administrative (public sector), spiritual.   Three forms of high-quality transformations of economic (economic) process are an evolutionary way of development, it is a revolutionary way of development, it is jump in development.   Such structure of economy (economy) also allows to speak about need of application of methodology of Russian economic school or a triyedinstvo from the idealistic beginning.  
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