Where next for anti-capitalism?
– Michael Moore latest – Political cartoon books – Hardt and Negri reach a mass market Capitalism loves a profitable trend and radical ideas are on the up, so we shouldn’t be surprised at the bizarre spectacles this throws up. For instance, discount CD shops in central London that only ever stock 20 or so bestselling book titles, are now buying up huge quantities of Isaac Deutscher’s three-volume biography of Trotsky that they can sell for less than it costs the independents to buy. For at least the last year we have been inundated with anti-globalisation this and anti-capitalist that, but some of these books do address real political arguments within the movements. Anti-Capitalism: Where Now? (Bookmarks 6) is a collection of essays by leading activists of the movement, including Prabir Purkayastha from the Mumbai World Social Forum, Michael Albert of radical website Znet, Naomi Klein, Alex Callinicos, CWU general secretary Billy Hayes, Brazilian socialist Luciana Genro and Susan Georg
