Sunday Interesting Links

• Essay on the connections (and lack thereof) between Althusser and workerism, the relationship between Marxist theory and practice, and the nature of the communist parties in France and Italy in the ’60s and ’70s, from Viewpoint Magazine

• Polemic by Matt Taibbi against the recent cover story in The Atlantic arguing that the US has too much democracy and not enough of an insulated political establishment

• Book review of Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (2012)

• Report on the increasing unrest in Kashmir and anti-police attitudes

• Analysis of renewable energy’s negative impact on nuclear power and carbon mitigation goals

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