New Left Review 156, out now.
In the latest New Left Review: analysis of the legacy of apartheid in South Africa, the relationship between the novel and the encyclopedia, and the troubled politics of public history.
In the Latest Issue
Thirty years on, why is South Africa still stuck in the patterns of income and housing segregation forged by apartheid? Standard explanations point to the ANC, as either too neoliberal or too statist. In the new number of NLR, Kevin Cox looks instead at the apartheid regime's making of classes—and expropriation of African farmers—at the moment of globalization’s labour shock.
The inter-generational correspondence between one of the Cold War’s originating thinkers and a young Marxist scholar studying his work, previously unpublished: George Kennan and Anders Stephanson exchange thoughts on containment, definitions of the national interest, American foreign policy and the independence of political discourse.
Ryan Ruby traces the relationship between the novel and the encyclopedia.
Cédric Durand provides a critical intellectual portrait of Michel Aglietta, a founder of the regulation school of heterodox economists.
Pierre Vesperini explores the troubled politics of public history.
Julieta Caldas ponders the purpose of Frieze Art Fair.
Plus book reviews: Nic Johnson on Melinda Cooper’s Counterrevolution, Grey Anderson on Edward Luce’s Zbig and Maria Haro Sly on Carlos Pagni’s El Nudo.
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