<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">tina ebro</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cgebro@gmail.com">cgebro@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:40 AM<br>Subject: [CommonGood] "Beyond Digital Capitalism" - new book of Socialist Register; Interview with Editors - L. Panitch & G. Albo on "Capitalist contradictions & COVID-19 crisis"<br>To: <br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#505050" face="Georgia, Times, Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:12px"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></span></span></font></div><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0.3em 0px;border-width:0px 0px 5px;border-top-style:initial;border-right-style:initial;border-bottom-style:solid;border-left-style:initial;border-top-color:initial;border-right-color:initial;border-bottom-color:rgb(51,51,51);border-left-color:initial;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1.4em;font-family:Roboto;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#e06666">'Socialist Register' editors discuss <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"></span>capitalist contradictions and the COVID-19 crisis</font></h1><div style="margin:0px;padding:0.7em 1em;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16.0016px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Roboto;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);background:rgb(238,238,238)"><br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;float:right"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both"><div id="m_4725434265264080758gmail-atstbx" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0px;line-height:0;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;opacity:1"><span id="m_4725434265264080758gmail-at-8b965130-a97c-4a71-b8fe-afbabe766955" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden"></span><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden"></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;float:left;height:16px;width:16px"></span><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10.2px;line-height:16px;vertical-align:baseline;height:16px;background:none">Facebook</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden"></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;float:left;height:16px;width:16px"></span><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10.2px;line-height:16px;vertical-align:baseline;height:16px;background:none">Twitter</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;overflow:hidden"></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;float:left;height:16px;width:16px"></span><span style="margin:0px 0px 0px 5px;padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10.2px;line-height:16px;vertical-align:baseline;height:16px;background:none">More</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px 15px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:10.2px;line-height:16px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;float:right">1</span></div></div></div></span></div><div style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16.0016px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:Roboto;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,17,17)"><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Following the publication of the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weigh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in:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.9em;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Greg Albo</p></div><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Albo envisions new mechanisms forming within states to address the crisis – ranging from emergency monetary policy and the socialization of wages to the way supply chains and health care systems are being re-thought – as important issues to monitor as this crisis, and the responses to it, unfolds.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">While, similar to Panitch, Albo doesn’t see crisis as an automatic catalyst for change, he is interested in the types of class alliances that could emerge following this world event, and what the global balance of power might look like on the other side. “After we see the wreckage that has been imposed, again, by neoliberalism, will the response be to push away from it?” he asked.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The latest volume of the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Socialist Register</em>, the publication’s 56th, titled, <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(227,24,55);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living</a></em>, captures several issues and themes related to the impact of states’ responses to the COVID-19 outbreak despite being published prior to the virus being declared a pandemic. “The volume hit this moment very well, although the authors of the essays were obviously not writing about this moment directly,” Albo said.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Although Panitch and Albo asked contributors to consider dystopia, they don’t see the volume as necessarily pessimistic.</p><div id="m_4725434265264080758gmail-attachment_274810" style="margin:1em 0px 1em 2em;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;height:auto;text-align:center;float:right;display:inline;width:210px"><img src="https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/files/2020/04/cover_issue_2232_en_US-200x300.jpg?x44397" alt=""Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living"" width="200" height="300" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;height:auto"><p id="m_4725434265264080758gmail-caption-attachment-274810" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.9em;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Beyond Market Dystopia: New Ways of Living</em></p></div><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Panitch described the theme of “new ways of living” as “an attempt to get us to think about the terrible new ways in which we’re living, and the consequences of market dystopia – as seen in the appalling lack of preparation of our health care system – but also to encourage people to be visionary.” For Panitch, looking at new ways of living means encouraging the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Register’s</em> authors and audience to retain a positive vision of the future.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">In a paper he co-authored with former York Professor and Visiting Packer Chair in Social Justice <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Sam Gindin</strong> and York PhD graduate <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Stephen Maher</strong>, Panitch explores both the promises and limitations of contemporary progressive political campaigns such as those for Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Jeremy Corbyn.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Oxford University Professor <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Barbara Harriss-White</strong> examines climate change and the ecological crisis and considers how to make the world a better place through restitution and restoration.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Authors contributed pieces looking at refugees and global migration, social reproduction, the economy in the home, the corporatization of health care and education systems and a variety of other topics related to neoliberalism is fostering market economies in all parts of society.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Roger Keil</strong>, a professor at York University, wrote a paper titled “Communism in the Suburbs?” which looks at attempts throughout the past century to develop “utopian communities” in Los Angeles through measures such as more egalitarian housing policies.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The volume concludes with a paper by renowned critical theorist, feminist and philosopher <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Nancy Fraser</strong>, asking, “What should socialism mean in the twenty-first century?”</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Panitch is pleased to see York University well represented in the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Register’s </em>56th volume, reflecting on a “steady stream of York contributors” he has been thankful for since he and Albo began editing the journal.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“I’m very proud of the place York always occupies,” Panitch said, “and I’m very thankful to York for the kind of support it has always provided to my editorship of the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Register</em>.”</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Looking back at his tenure as one of the journal’s editors, Panitch is also proud of the places the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Socialist Register</em> has come to occupy both in academia and amongst left intellectuals.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“It was always resolutely international, and it still is,” Panitch said. “Someone once said to me, ‘if you want to be read in Alexandria, Egypt, publish in the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Register</em>, and if you want to be read in Cambridge, Massachusetts, don’t.’”</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Panitch recalled how founding editor Ralph Miliband told him, “the <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Register</em> needs to be hard to read and hard to write for,” in the sense of being intellectually challenging yet always very clearly written. Nearly all of the journal’s essays are commissioned, with hardly anyone ever declining to write for the publication when asked.</p><div id="m_4725434265264080758gmail-attachment_274811" style="margin:1em 2em 1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;height:auto;text-align:center;float:left;display:inline;width:210px"><img src="https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/files/2020/04/9781788738347-200x300.jpg?x44397" alt=""Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn"" width="200" height="300" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;height:auto"><p id="m_4725434265264080758gmail-caption-attachment-274811" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:0.9em;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn</em></p></div><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Beyond Market Dystopia</em> is the first of two volumes based on the theme of new ways of living. Panitch and Albo are already working on a companion edition, <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Beyond Digital Capitalism</em>, to be published in fall 2020.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Albo, who coordinates the <a href="https://socialistproject.ca/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(227,24,55);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Toronto Socialist Project’s</a> daily e-magazine, <a href="https://socialistproject.ca/bullet/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(227,24,55);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The Bullet</em></a>, and supports the work of the <a href="https://www.socialjustice.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(227,24,55);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank">Centre for Social Justice</a>, is finding more time for writing – and editing the work of others who have more time for writing – while in isolation.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Panitch, whose formal role at York as a retired senior scholar mainly sees him giving talks and wrapping up a handful of remaining PhD supervisions, is looking forward to the upcoming launch of his new book, <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/635952/searching-for-socialism-by-leo-panitch/9781788738347" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(227,24,55);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Searching for Socialism: The Project of the Labour New Left from Benn to Corbyn</em></a><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">, </em>co-authored with <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Colin Leyes</strong>, which will likely take place in a virtual format later this month.</p><p style="margin:0.75em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“Maybe we’ll call it ‘Zooming for Socialism,’” Panitch joked.</p></div><div><em style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(17,17,17);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Do you have a story to share about how you are coping, or what you are doing differently, during the COVID-19 pandemic? Email us at </strong></em><a href="mailto:yfile@yorku.ca" style="font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(227,24,55);text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">yfile@yorku.ca</em></strong></a><em style="font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(17,17,17);margin:0px;padding:0px;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