Socialist Standard February 2010

Socialist Standard magazine February 2010 - - ‘Haiti - an un-natural disaster’ Earthquakes are inevitable, but the death toll is not - ‘Christmas bombers’ The son of a Nigerian banker wasn’t the only one on a bombing mission at Christmas - ‘Who bailed out the bankers?’ They tell us that we “the taxpayers” did? But it’s not as simple as that - ‘Beyond capitalism’ Attempts to reform capitalism, whether through parliament or dictatorship, have failed. This leaves conscious majority revolution as the only way forward - ‘The market versus cooperation’ Difficulties with cooperation arise when the restrictions of the market start to operate - ‘Car boot capers’ Regular features - Pathfinders (science / technology) – ‘The Machine Inside the Ghost’ (re. Zeitgeist) Material World – ‘America and the S-word’ Pieces Together – news cuttings from mainstream media Cooking the Books 1 (economics) – ‘Dreams and Nightmares’ Cooking the Books 2 - ‘The Yellow Brick Road’ 50 Years Ago – ‘MacMillan: “You’ve Never Had it So Good” ’ Voice From the Back - selected news items Free Lunch – cartoon Book Reviews – ‘Cronies or Capitalists? The Russian Bourgeoisie and the Bourgeois Revolution from 1850 to 1917’, by David Lockwood ‘Red Planets - Marxism and Science Fiction’, edited by Mark Bould & China Miéville ‘First as Tragedy, Then as Farce’, by Slavoj Žižek Also see www.worldsocialism.org and http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/

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