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Why not in paperback?

The price of the hardback edition is prohibitively expensive to all except academics. How about a paperback edition for the rest of us?

In response to The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume 1 by Rosa Luxemburg

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Why Lenin Was Right?

This is a great book to learn why Lenin was right and to understand why Marxism would not be an actual matter and would not be practicized properly as an proletarian theory in the age of imperialism without Lenin. In a sense, he was Marx of new epoch. It was who was also open the way to Stalin, who was the gretaest leninist, among the availables, of the period of real foundation of communist society. Who was the first founder of communist society. Lenin had saved Marx to retain a mere academic issue in hands of "marxist" academicians. Today we can not find true answer to the question of "why Marx was right" of academic marxists, if we do not read him through Lenin. Verso should publish these old classics with a new translation.

In response to Lenin by Georg Lukács

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It is great to see a critical piece on Thomas Friedman given the undue veneration he is accorded in U.S. society. Now, what is still needed is a critique of his domestic issues counter part at the NYT, David Brooks. Won't someone, please, write a book exp

Book on Brooks still needed

In response to The Imperial Messenger by Belén Fernández

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Fetishized contrarianism?

After giving Richard Seymour an audience by reading his essay, "The Genocidal Imagination of Christopher Hitchens," I've decided that the purchase and investigation of his "Unhitched" effort will be worth neither my dime nor my time. Which is oddly a shame, because I chase a high that Seymour can only understand as fetishized contrarianism, but which bonded me to the Hitch, however briefly, as his student: it includes a passion for having new evidence infect your most cherished beliefs so that your former identity must evolve and so that your newfound "hypocrisy" must be reckoned with as a matter of intellectual rigor. One of my cherished beliefs, I'll admit, is that even when Christopher was wrong, he was principled. Despite sentimental personal attachments, Mr. Seymour MIGHT have persuaded me with evidence. Instead, he appears to think that Hitchens was an unprincipled scoundrel. I understand Mr. Seymour is praised for the extensiveness and exhaustiveness of his argumentation -- even his essays are brimming with footnotes. Taking a cue from Seymour and substituting amateur psychoanalysis for de rigeur analysis, I'm inclined to say that it's as easy to dismiss the author of this book as a person with a tribal bone to pick, and an education in fashionable nonsense that makes his bone picking sound more legitimate than it is. During the time that I studied with the late Hitch, my long term girlfriend was Afghan and Muslim. Seymour's readers would do well to hear her sentiments on the man's "blatant Islamophobia" and on the Taliban who had beggared her country. But if her opinions squared with his, whatever would they do? We have Ayan Hirsi Ali to reference, for a start. I hope Mr. Seymour and Verso enjoy the dimes this book reels in. The rarity of the condition to which I referred above--the addiction to the high of having your most cherished notions shattered by evidence and your tribe membership revoked as a result--is still a rare enough addiction.

In response to Unhitched by Richard Seymour

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German source for this?

What is the German source for this? Is this in Adorno or Horkheimer's collected works? A Suhrkamp publication? Archival? Or is there a recording? I'd like to read or hear this in German.

BTW: Livingstone is an excellent, excellent translator.

In response to Towards a New Manifesto by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer

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