Keith M Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5579992 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith M Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith M |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN K M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
People's Art, People's Reality
Review of Through Our Own Eyes: Popular Art and Modern History by Guy Brett.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Planned Ruination: Thatcher's Britain
Numerous thinkers and writers have long criticized the whole basis of the society of consumption, the society of "always more," the society which places the whole emphasis of human life on having rather than on being. Such criticisms indeed are an explicit element in most of the world's great religions and thus long antedate the modern "Age of Affluence," which rests obscenely on the (planned) deprivation and misery of three quarters of humankind…
On Returning to New Zealand
On returning to New Zealand after an absence of twelve years, we are experiencing a quite remarkable sense of deja vu. The monetarist policy of the Labour government is being carried through with a speed and a thoroughness which must make Thatcher green with envy. Total emphasis everywhere on "user pay"—involving the progressive demolition of the social security system which had once been the country's main claim to any sort of fame. Orientation …
The Life and Death of a Peasant Community
Review of The Road to Alto: An Account of Peasants, Capitalists, and the Soil in the Mountains of Southern Portugal by Robin Jenkins.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Center and Periphery: Reflections on the Irrelevance of a Billion Human Beings
This morning the BBC News carried an item about the impending perfection of a robot which would be sufficiently sophisticated to be able to take care of, and help, elderly or disabled people. It is a savage indictment of a supposedly "developed" nation—a nation, moreover, with 4 million jobless that it should show itself unable or unwilling to fashion a society in which the most basic human skills of its unemployed millions in caring and tending …
How Can Men Stand Up
Review of The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China by Mark Selden.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
First, the Hearts of Men
Review of The Military Art of People's War: Selected Writings of General Vo Nguyen Giap edited by Russell Stetler.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Twilight of the Gods
Review of L'empire américain by Claude Julien.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Speeding up the Social Revolution in Asia
"As socialists we surely can offer concrete and responsible programs to speed up the social revolution in Asia. We can provide the ideas and the concepts which would provide the necessary ethos for the modernizing process." The speaker was the Foreign Minister of Singapore, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, and he was addressing the Eighth Congress of the International Union of Socialist Youth in Vienna in 1966.This article can also be found at the Monthly Revi…
The Revolt Against Satellization in Scotland and Wales
One of the most striking political trends in Britain in recent years is the resurgence of the Celtic nations of Scotland and Wales. This manifests itself in the almost meteoric rise of the Scottish National Party and of Plaid Cymru (the Welsh National Party). Both parties have in recent years become an increasingly significant political force at the local government level; their entry onto the national political scene dates from the Carmarthen by…
Confronting the Damned
For countless decades the "underdeveloped" lands, to which the French give the term "The Third World," existed as a silent and sullen appendage of the developed Euro-American world. Their peoples, two thirds of mankind, formed a "commonwealth of poverty," exploited and manipulated in the interests of a small minority within a small and affluent group of nations; they were voiceless and passive, helpless and hopeless. The decisive historical event…
China Through French Eyes
Review of Dans trente ans la Chine by Robert Guillain; La Construction du socialisme en Chine by Charles Bettelheim.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
China: A Spanish Review
Review of China Triumphs by Julia Alvarez del Vayo.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
South Vietnam—Some Perspectives
These notes are being written in Cambodia, in March, 1965. Bangkok airport as I passed through was shrill with American jet-fighters; on the observation deck of the airport a small group of United States officers was watching the planes disappear into the heat-hazed skies of late spring. The atmosphere is heavy and the voices of the Thai air-hostesses tense; soon the storms of summer will sweep across Southeast Asia. Beyond the eastern frontier o…
Behind the Curtain of Silence
La Vietnam entre deux paix (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965) by Jean Lacouture and Dans les maquis "vietcong" (Paris: Juliard, 1965) by Madeleine Riffaud. In the New Zealand press probably in the British press' certainly in the BBC's news bulletins, the Vietnamese conflict is, at the present moment (mid-October), either sedulously ignored or dismissed in a few brief words. The full extent of this conspiracy of silence becomes apparent only if one …
Cambodia Between Peking and Paris
On the 16th of September, 1964, the Cambodian press unearthed "a U.S. plot to assassinate Prince Sihanouk, disrupt the country from within, and attack at the same time from without by forces from South Vietnam and Thailand." The news is not surprising, for something like the same gambit was played by the CIA in 1958, at a time when the Prince was being received by President Eisenhower in the White House. What is surprising is that the boys in the…
When Hyenas Go Away
Review of L'Afrique noire est mal partie by René Dumont.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
The Negro Problem in the U.S.—An Outsider's View
As the author explains in the opening paragraph of this article, he was moved to write it not by a study of the Negro problem in the United States but by a study of the problems of the Third World. He was, he tells us, struck by similarities suddenly thrown into sharp relief by the Birmingham crisis. It is probably safe to assume that what he has written is an explicit formulation of ideas which have occurred to many people, both inside and outsi…
The Demolition Men: The U.S. and the Crisis of Neutrality in Southeast Asia
"The further extension of the non-committed area of the world constitutes the only possible and indispensable alternative to the policy of total division of the world into blocs and intensification of cold war policies." This is the voice of the nonaligned nations assembled at Belgrade in 1961, and it speaks to all those nations of the Third World—the impoverished, the weak and the backward—whose prospects of economic emergence, even of national …
Light on Africa
The traditional pattern of African society has been destroyed by the impact of the West; out of the chaos, new patterns of life are emerging, painfully. Some of these are deformed; some, like Mau Mau, are abortions. Western ideas, and the example of Asia, have encouraged the rise of African nationalism; it's a strident nationalism, with all the cocksureness, the impatience, the idealism, and the capacity for mistakes of the young. Confronted by t…
South from China
The last lap of my China travels took me to Nanning, in the Chuang Autonomous Region of south China. The Chinese-Vietnamese border lay only one hundred miles to the south, and when the opportunity of a brief visit to North Vietnam was offered to me I eagerly accepted. Few Western observers had visited the country since the restoration of peace; moreover, Vietnam was of major interest to me as a geographer because its great rice growing area in th…
The Many Faces of China
I went to China in October 1958 at the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the trip was to meet Chinese geographers, to discuss with them the exchange of geographical material, and to see something of the changing geography of China. I started from Canton, in the Pearl River lowland, sub-tropical China with its fields of rice and sugar cane, its banana and bamboo groves.This article can also be found at the Monthly Revie…
Center and Periphery: Reflections on the Irrelevance of a Billion Human Beings
This morning the BBC News carried an item about the impending perfection of a robot which would be sufficiently sophisticated to be able to take care of, and help, elderly or disabled people. It is a savage indictment of a supposedly "developed" nation—a nation, moreover, with 4 million jobless that it should show itself unable or unwilling to fashion a society in which the most basic human skills of its unemployed millions in caring and tending …
The Demolition Men: The U.S. and the Crisis of Neutrality in Southeast Asia
"The further extension of the non-committed area of the world constitutes the only possible and indispensable alternative to the policy of total division of the world into blocs and intensification of cold war policies." This is the voice of the nonaligned nations assembled at Belgrade in 1961, and it speaks to all those nations of the Third World—the impoverished, the weak and the backward—whose prospects of economic emergence, even of national …
Light on Africa
The traditional pattern of African society has been destroyed by the impact of the West; out of the chaos, new patterns of life are emerging, painfully. Some of these are deformed; some, like Mau Mau, are abortions. Western ideas, and the example of Asia, have encouraged the rise of African nationalism; it's a strident nationalism, with all the cocksureness, the impatience, the idealism, and the capacity for mistakes of the young. Confronted by t…
South from China
The last lap of my China travels took me to Nanning, in the Chuang Autonomous Region of south China. The Chinese-Vietnamese border lay only one hundred miles to the south, and when the opportunity of a brief visit to North Vietnam was offered to me I eagerly accepted. Few Western observers had visited the country since the restoration of peace; moreover, Vietnam was of major interest to me as a geographer because its great rice growing area in th…
The Many Faces of China
I went to China in October 1958 at the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the trip was to meet Chinese geographers, to discuss with them the exchange of geographical material, and to see something of the changing geography of China. I started from Canton, in the Pearl River lowland, sub-tropical China with its fields of rice and sugar cane, its banana and bamboo groves.This article can also be found at the Monthly Revie…
The Negro Problem in the U.S.—An Outsider's View
As the author explains in the opening paragraph of this article, he was moved to write it not by a study of the Negro problem in the United States but by a study of the problems of the Third World. He was, he tells us, struck by similarities suddenly thrown into sharp relief by the Birmingham crisis. It is probably safe to assume that what he has written is an explicit formulation of ideas which have occurred to many people, both inside and outsi…
The Demolition Men: The U.S. and the Crisis of Neutrality in Southeast Asia
"The further extension of the non-committed area of the world constitutes the only possible and indispensable alternative to the policy of total division of the world into blocs and intensification of cold war policies." This is the voice of the nonaligned nations assembled at Belgrade in 1961, and it speaks to all those nations of the Third World—the impoverished, the weak and the backward—whose prospects of economic emergence, even of national …
Cambodia Between Peking and Paris
On the 16th of September, 1964, the Cambodian press unearthed "a U.S. plot to assassinate Prince Sihanouk, disrupt the country from within, and attack at the same time from without by forces from South Vietnam and Thailand." The news is not surprising, for something like the same gambit was played by the CIA in 1958, at a time when the Prince was being received by President Eisenhower in the White House. What is surprising is that the boys in the…
When Hyenas Go Away
Review of L'Afrique noire est mal partie by René Dumont.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
China: A Spanish Review
Review of China Triumphs by Julia Alvarez del Vayo.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
South Vietnam—Some Perspectives
These notes are being written in Cambodia, in March, 1965. Bangkok airport as I passed through was shrill with American jet-fighters; on the observation deck of the airport a small group of United States officers was watching the planes disappear into the heat-hazed skies of late spring. The atmosphere is heavy and the voices of the Thai air-hostesses tense; soon the storms of summer will sweep across Southeast Asia. Beyond the eastern frontier o…
Behind the Curtain of Silence
La Vietnam entre deux paix (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1965) by Jean Lacouture and Dans les maquis "vietcong" (Paris: Juliard, 1965) by Madeleine Riffaud. In the New Zealand press probably in the British press' certainly in the BBC's news bulletins, the Vietnamese conflict is, at the present moment (mid-October), either sedulously ignored or dismissed in a few brief words. The full extent of this conspiracy of silence becomes apparent only if one …
China Through French Eyes
Review of Dans trente ans la Chine by Robert Guillain; La Construction du socialisme en Chine by Charles Bettelheim.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Confronting the Damned
For countless decades the "underdeveloped" lands, to which the French give the term "The Third World," existed as a silent and sullen appendage of the developed Euro-American world. Their peoples, two thirds of mankind, formed a "commonwealth of poverty," exploited and manipulated in the interests of a small minority within a small and affluent group of nations; they were voiceless and passive, helpless and hopeless. The decisive historical event…
The Revolt Against Satellization in Scotland and Wales
One of the most striking political trends in Britain in recent years is the resurgence of the Celtic nations of Scotland and Wales. This manifests itself in the almost meteoric rise of the Scottish National Party and of Plaid Cymru (the Welsh National Party). Both parties have in recent years become an increasingly significant political force at the local government level; their entry onto the national political scene dates from the Carmarthen by…
Speeding up the Social Revolution in Asia
"As socialists we surely can offer concrete and responsible programs to speed up the social revolution in Asia. We can provide the ideas and the concepts which would provide the necessary ethos for the modernizing process." The speaker was the Foreign Minister of Singapore, Mr. S. Rajaratnam, and he was addressing the Eighth Congress of the International Union of Socialist Youth in Vienna in 1966.This article can also be found at the Monthly Revi…
The Twilight of the Gods
Review of L'empire américain by Claude Julien.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
First, the Hearts of Men
Review of The Military Art of People's War: Selected Writings of General Vo Nguyen Giap edited by Russell Stetler.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
How Can Men Stand Up
Review of The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China by Mark Selden.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Center and Periphery: Reflections on the Irrelevance of a Billion Human Beings
This morning the BBC News carried an item about the impending perfection of a robot which would be sufficiently sophisticated to be able to take care of, and help, elderly or disabled people. It is a savage indictment of a supposedly "developed" nation—a nation, moreover, with 4 million jobless that it should show itself unable or unwilling to fashion a society in which the most basic human skills of its unemployed millions in caring and tending …
The Life and Death of a Peasant Community
Review of The Road to Alto: An Account of Peasants, Capitalists, and the Soil in the Mountains of Southern Portugal by Robin Jenkins.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
On Returning to New Zealand
On returning to New Zealand after an absence of twelve years, we are experiencing a quite remarkable sense of deja vu. The monetarist policy of the Labour government is being carried through with a speed and a thoroughness which must make Thatcher green with envy. Total emphasis everywhere on "user pay"—involving the progressive demolition of the social security system which had once been the country's main claim to any sort of fame. Orientation …
People's Art, People's Reality
Review of Through Our Own Eyes: Popular Art and Modern History by Guy Brett.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Planned Ruination: Thatcher's Britain
Numerous thinkers and writers have long criticized the whole basis of the society of consumption, the society of "always more," the society which places the whole emphasis of human life on having rather than on being. Such criticisms indeed are an explicit element in most of the world's great religions and thus long antedate the modern "Age of Affluence," which rests obscenely on the (planned) deprivation and misery of three quarters of humankind…
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