NEW LEFT REVIEW, ISSUE 130, JULY/AUGUST 2021

Περιεχόμενα

interview
Guilherme BoulosStruggles of the Roofless
Amid the debacle of Bolsonaro's rule, Guilherme Boulos-coordinator of Brazil's Sem Teto and PSOL presidential candidate-speaks to Mario Sergio Conti about the political crisis, barrio psychoanalysis, the balance sheet of the Lula-Dilma governments, the politics of impeachment and the militancy of practical experience.
articles
Adam HaniehPetrochemical Empire
A materialist history of capital and empire, through the lens of the German-American petrochemical industry. What does it mean to see oil, not just as an energy source or transport fuel, but as primary material for contemporary commodity culture-the chemical basis for a synthetic world of things?
May Adadol IngawanijPhilippine Noir
Critical-biographical overview of the radical Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz, against the backdrops of military rule and cacique democracy. Countering his Anglophone reception as practitioner of 'slow cinema', a portrait of an avant-garde populist-experimentalist, testing out a wealth of cinematic genres and national-allegorical forms.
David HarveyRate and Mass
If capital is value in motion, what is the fundamental contradiction that propels it? A reading of the Grundrisse as Marx's break with Hegel and Ricardo, pitting the falling rate of profit against the growing mass of capital and its global upshots-from surplus sinks to credit cycles.
reviews
Paths not Taken
Joel Andreas on Isabella Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy. Reconstruction of the tight contest between 'big-bang' and 'dual-track' market reformers in Deng's PRC, weighing generational experience, Western proselytising and the classical Chinese tradition.
Cutting to the Chase
David Simpson on Franco Moretti, Far Country. Europe as counterpoint in a collection of literary-historical close readings of forms across the span of American culture.
Explaining Jokowi
Rohana Kuddus on Ben Bland, Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia. First English-language biography of the Indonesian leader, tracing transformation from candidate of hope to ornament of the old oligarchy.
Titmuss in His Time
Ben Jackson on John Stewart, Richard Titmuss: A Commitment to Welfare. Formation and trajectory of the LSE's central theorist of social policy and the post-war welfare state.