PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
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The case against growth
JOHN GREEN is persuaded by an argument for the relevance of Marx’s late writings to the looming environmental catastrophe
ANTICIPATED BY MARX: An environmental degradation in the Niger Delta region resulting from exploitation of crude oil, May 2019
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LEO BOIX applauds an audacious, self-questioning film about grief, friendship and film-making
MARY CONWAY admires a brave and topical study of Armageddon that is, unfortunately, unable to come to a conclusion
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH and JAMIE BRITTON review Hanging by a Wire, I Want Your Sex, The Pout-Pout Fish, and Rise of the Foot Soldier: Retribution
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The Bard hands out medals for his Edinburgh campaign and urges us to support The Men They Couldn’t Hang
Marx in the Anthropocene — Towards the Idea of a Degrowth Communism
By Kohei Saito, Cambridge University Press, £29.99
WITH the unfolding climate and environmental catastrophe, there has been a rising interest in what Marx and Engels had to say on such issues.
While one clearly can’t expect these two great 19th century thinkers to have foreseen, let alone commented upon, the human capacity for self-immolation, their holistic approach to understanding the material world and the way societies develop is certainly still relevant today.
In this refreshing and highly significant work, Kohei Saito draws on only recently published writings from Marx’s later notebooks on science and nature which reveal a less Promethean Marx.
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Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a Marxist critique of the ‘race-first’ views of the influential black US theorist Cedric Robinson
Dignity is important to all humans, argues the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School, but it does not come about automatically. In a less than perfect world, dignity can accompany suffering, but the collective dignity of working people is achieved through acting together to change the world.
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School