May Day Books Blog

  “What’s Hidden in Rural Areas?” Take a drive through the U.S. off the freeways, toll roads and the big stroads.   Drive through some small...

  “Friend - A Novel from North Korea,” by Paek Nam-Nyong, 2020 Eng. Trans. / 1988 The author is one of the top authors in north Korea – a...

  “Unlearning Marx – Why the Soviet Failure Was a Triumph for Marx” by Steve Paxton, 2021 Paxton is a supporter of G.A. Cohen of the Briti...

  Bud Schulte – 1947 to 2022 Bud Schulte, long time labor and socialist activist, did not wake from his sleep on February 12, 2022.   He w...

  “Beyond Leviathan,” by István Mészáros, edited by J.B. Foster, 2022 This is a book that attempts to provide a Marxist theory of the stat...

  “Peaky Blinders, Season 6,” directed by Anthony Byrne (partial spoiler alert) This is the last season of this BBC series, done after the...

  “The Romance of American Communism,” by Vivian Gornick, 1979 This famous book was written by a red-diaper baby who looks back fondly at...

  Weird Conservative Feminism I think there is some weird feminist thing happening on the right, especially among light-skinned working cl...