Resistance and Rebellion - Monthly Review Vol.62 No.2 - June 2010 - Independent Socialist Magazine

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Issue of Monthly Review (Vol.62 No.2, June 2010) presenting an independent socialist perspective on capitalism, resistance, and political struggle. Features include articles on U.S. capitalism as an “absurd system,” South African urban protest, Oaxaca’s awakening, and resistance in El Salvador. Includes a review section with work on Sartre’s conversations, plus editors’ notes on the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

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Resistance and Rebellion

EI Salvador: Confronting Deadly Violence in San Isidro

South Africa: Speculative Bubble Meets Urban Protest

Oaxaca: Can the People's Giant Awaken Again?

Capitalism, the Absurd System - A View from the United States

South Africa's Bubble Meets Boiling Urban Social Protest

Awakening in Oaxaca: Stirrings of the People's Giant

El Salvador: Mining the Resistance

Reviews

Time to Pay the Piper

Sartre: Conversations with a “Bourgeois Revolutionary”

Notes from the Editors

John Gerassi's Conversations with Sartre reviewed by JoSEPH L.WALSH MONTHLYVOL.62NO.2June2010 A N IN DEP E N D ENT SO CIA LIS T M A G A Z IN E # Resistance and Rebellion EI Salvador:ConfrontingDeadly Violencein San IsidroGABRIEL ZU CKER South Africa:SpeculativeBubble MeetsUrban ProtestPAT RICK BOND Oaxaca:Can thePeople's GiantAwaken Again?ROBERT JOE STOUT caDItthe absurd system ROBERT W.McCHESNEY AND JOHN BELLAMY FOSTEREco-Sufficiency and Global Justice:Women Write Political Ecology by Ariel SallehnrCCA CLAUSENMarygrove Collegibrary8425 West McNich s RdadDetroit,MI 4822 # MONTHLY REVIEW VOL.62 NO.2 JUNE 2010 An Independent Socialist Magazine Founded in 1949.LEOHUBERMAN,EDITOR,1949-1968◆PAULM.SWEEZY,EDITOR,1949-2004◆ HARRY MAGDOFF,EDITOR,1969-2006 | JOHN BELLAMY FoSTER,EDITOR+MICHAEL D.YATES,AssoCIATE EDITOR◆SUSIE DAY,ASSISTANT EDITOR
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Your correspondence will be read by the editors and forwarded to the respective authors. | | REVIEW OF THE MONTH Capitalism,the Absurd SystemROBERT W.McCHESNEY AND JOHN BELLAMY FoSTER1South Africa's Bubble Meets Boiling Urban Social ProtestPATRICK BOND17Awakening in Oaxaca:Stirrings of the People's GiantROBERT JOE STOUT29El Salvador:Mining the ResistanceGABRIEL ZuCKER40REVIEWS Time to Pay the PiperREBECCA CLAUSEN51Sartre:Conversations with a“Bourgeois Revolutionary”JOSEPH L.WALSH56 Notes from the Editors The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights ofMother Earth held April 20-22,2010,in Cochabamba,Bolivia,will undoubt-edly be remembered as a major historical turning point in the struggle overclimate change.Over 35,000 people from 142 countries attended(includingofficial delegations from the United Nations and forty-seven countries,andspokespersons from indigenous communities).For perhaps the first time,the issue of the planetary environmental crisis was wrested entirely from theideological control of the rich countries of the North in a major internationalforum,leading to the development of a radical South-based perspective. President Evo Morales of Bolivia opened the conference with the words“Planet or Death,We Shall Overcome”and emphasized that there were twopossible paths:"either capitalism dies or Mother Earth dies."The final decla-ration of the conference on April 22,known as The Cochabamba Protocol,or ThePeople's Agreement on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth,stated: The capitalist system has imposed on us a logic of competition,progress,and limitless growth.The regime of production and consumption seeks profitwithout limits,separating human beings from nature and imposing a logic of # Capitalism,the Absurd SystemA View from the United States ROBERT W.McCHESNEY AND JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER Main Entry:cap·i·tal-ism Pronunciation:Yka-pə-ta-liz-am,'kap-tə-,British also kɔ-pi-to-1 Function:noun Date:1877 1:an economic,political and social system based on private ownership of property,business and industry,and directed towards making the greatest possible profits forsuccessful organizations and people. Main Entry:ab·surd Pronunciation:lob-sərd,-zərd\ Function:adjective Etymology:Middle French absurde,from Latin absurdus,from ab-+surdus deaf,stupid Date:1557 1:ridiculously unreasonable,unsound,or incongruous . 2:having no rational or orderly relationship to human life:MEANINGLESS ;also:lacking order or value . A few years ago,in a class one of us taught,a di

FAQs

What is the focus of this Monthly Review issue?

The issue centers on resistance and rebellion through socialist analysis, with major coverage of capitalism’s logic and multiple case studies of popular struggle.

Which article discusses capitalism as an “absurd system” from the United States?

“Capitalism, the Absurd System - A View from the United States” by Robert W. McChesney and John Bellamy Foster.

What climate-change event do the editors highlight in their notes?

The World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held April 20–22, 2010, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, including the Cochabamba Protocol/People’s Agreement.

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