Marx the Capitalist

Mises Review 8, No. 3 (Fall 2002)

HOW DEMOCRATIC IS THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION?
Meghnad Desai 
Verso, 2002, xi + 372 pgs.
 

Professor Desai has given us two books in one: a new interpretation of Marxism, and a history of twentieth-century capitalism. I propose to concentrate, with one exception, on the first of these, owing to its revolutionary thesis: Desai presents Marx as a supporter of capitalism.

Disarmed  and Wholly Dependent

Mises Review 8, No. 3 (Fall 2002)

GUNS AND VIOLENCE: THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE
Joyce Lee Malcolm
Harvard University Press, 2002, viii + 340 pgs.
 

Banking, Flesh, and Blood

Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002)

A HISTORY OF MONEY AND BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES: FROM THE COLONIAL ERA TO WORLD WAR II
Murray N. Rothbard
Joseph T. Salerno, Editor
Mises Institute, 2002, 510 pgs.

The Facts of Economic Life

Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002)
 

THE COLLAPSE OF THE FACT/VALUE DICHOTOMY AND OTHER ESSAYS
Hilary Putnam
Harvard University Press, 2002, xi + 190 pages
 

Contempt For Life

Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002)

STRAW DOGS: THOUGHTS ON HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS
John Gray
Granta Books, 2002, x + 246 pgs.
 

The Truth About Diversity

Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002) 

MULTICULTURALISM AND THE POLITICS OF GUILT: TOWARD A SECULAR THEOCRACY
Paul Edward Gottfried
University of Missouri Press, 2002 x + 158 pgs. 
 

Paul Gottfried has seen an aspect of multiculturalism and political correctness that previous critics of these doctrines have failed adequately to stress. He uses his insight to develop a brilliant analysis and critique of the modern managerial and therapeutic state.

Ours by Right

Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002)

NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE
Hadley Arkes
Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 302 pages
 

Ruins of the Drug War

Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002)

More Equal than the Others

Mises Review 8, No. 2 (Winter 2002)

THE CASE AGAINST PREEMPTIVE WAR
Paul W. Schroeder
American Conservative
Vol. 1, No. 2 (October 21, 2002): 8–20
 

Revolution and Secession

Mises Review 8, No. 4 (Winter 2002)

“THE UNREAL LINCOLN”
Ken Masugi
National Review, Vol. 54, No. 19 (October 14, 2002): 61–63