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From the blurb shown on this page it’s a worthlessly Leninist (stalinist? maoist? critique of Frankfurtism: https://nyupress.org/9781685901356/who-paid-the-pipers-of-western-marxism
I’d take WSWS-brand anti-Frankfurtism over this kind of ‘actually existing socialism’ cheerleader garbage any day.
In the course of the press conference, Mamdani was asked about the resolution against ‘socialism’ that had just been passed by the lower house of the American parliament. Here’s about that resolution:
Or, skip directly to the text of it: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/58/text
A more entertaining article than the BBC’s is this, where the keyword may be ‘surreal’: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/21/trump-mamdani-make-love-not-war-00665861
As for the David North Trots (i.e the WSWS), they title their article ‘Mamdani announces “partnership” with hated would-be dictator Trump’. Here, the keywords are ‘disgusting’ and ‘grotesque’:
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/22/mzez-n22.htmlIf you want to actually watch the 30-minute Mamdani-Trump news conference (never a dull moment), it’s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDanzN1EUeE
‘The October 7 Industry’:https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-october-7-industry
Hermann Lueer reviews part of the Bernes book. The review has these parts:
Abstract;
1. Marx against Labor Money;
2. Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution;
3. Bordiga against the GIC;
4. Dauvé – Councils without workers in the land of milk and honey;
5. Paul Mattick’s famous introduction to the 1970 reissue of the Fundamental Principles;
ConclusionA non-favorable review of the Bernes book by the Anarcho-Syndicalist Network in the most recent issue of its organ, Rebel Worker: https://files.libcom.org/files/2025-09/RW%20Sept-Oct%202025.pdf . On PDF-page 16
A piece by Paul Mattick a few days back:
And here is the platform of him whom Trump calls a ‘100% Communist Lunatic’:
Here you can read what kind of credit-cards are and are not Islam-compliant.
I was expecting to see a review of the Bernes book in the May SS. No.
But here in the Mattick-edited section of the May Brooklyn Rail, there are three reviews of it, along with a rejoinder to them by Bernes.
https://brooklynrail.org/section/field-notes/
I find useful to read his rejoinder first. (Partly out of fear of fatigue from reading ‘this kind of thing’.)
By the way, from his rejoinder it seems he was mistaken for something of an Impossiblist because he rejoinds (if there is such a word):
‘When I speak of the necessity of an immediate plan for common production for common use, I do not mean, as Frits Janssen argues, a “variation of the well-known view that the workers can only make a revolution when they are ‘conscious’…when they have studied piles of books” but rather an intensive and extensive network including “the vast majority” in the activity of planning and producing in common for common use.’
