May Day Books Blog

  “The Emotional Logic of Capitalism,” by Martijn Konings, 2015 (This is the first in a series of 4 looking at purely academic books, as I...

  CoVid eo Nation - II “The Assistant, ” – The best film on working as an executive assistant I’ve seen. (After all, how many are there? O...

  “History and Class Consciousness   –  Studies in Marxist Dialectics” by Georg Lukács. (1971 English translation with a 1967 preface by the...

  “Nomadland,” the film, directed by Chloe Zhao, 2021 Based on the book of the same name written by Jessica Bruder (reviewed below) Nomadl...

  “Caste – the Origins of Our Discontents,” by Isabel Wilkerson, 2020 This book is a small step forward from the simple-minded analyses of...

  “The Paper / Novine” Season 1, directed by Dalibor Matanić, written by Ivica Dikić, 2016 This Netflix series is set in a working town...

  “Dead Epidemiologists – on the Origins of Covid-19,” by Rob Wallace, 2020 This is an excellent lyrical and Marxist take on Covid-19 by a...