Daniel Singer
Biographic Data
| ID | 638330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Singer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Singer |
| SIGNATURE | SINGER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5479-2806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Effectiveness of four vaccines in preventing Sars-CoV-2 infection in Almaty, Kazakhstan in 2021
Background In February 2021 Kazakhstan began offering COVID-19 vaccines to adults. Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections raised concerns about real-world vaccine effectiveness. We aimed to evaluate effectiveness of four vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 infection. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort analysis among adults in Almaty using aggregated vaccination data and individual-level breakthrough COVID-19 cases (≥14 days from 2nd dose) using nati…
Outbreak of acute gastroenteritis associated with drinking water in rural Kazakhstan
We conducted an outbreak investigation from June 3 to 15th in a rural village in northern Kazakhstan, after surveillance showed an increase in gastroenteritis. Cases were residents who presented for medical treatment for diarrhea, fever (>37.5 °C), vomiting, or weakness from May 14 to June 15, 2021. Controls were residents matched by age ±2 years at a ratio of two controls for every case. Cases and controls were interviewed using structured quest…
Factors Associated with an Outbreak of Covid-19 in Oilfield Workers, Kazakhstan, 2020
From March to May 2020, 1306 oilfield workers in Kazakhstan tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. We conducted a case-control study to assess factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The cases were PCR-positive for SARS-CoV-2 during June-September 2020. Controls lived at the same camp and were randomly selected from the workers who were PCR-negative for SARS-CoV-2. Data was collected telephonically by interviewing the oil workers. The study had…
Back to the Future
FEW DEVELOPMENTS could seem more unlikely in our current political and intellectual climate than a sudden reawakening of utopian energies on the left. Indeed, in most progressive quarters, die long winter of neoconservative reaction and capitalist tnumphalism has given rise to a pervasive sense of impotence and despair — feelings which are hardly conducive to the kind of expansive, hopeful, and visionary thinking we normally associate with utopia…
The Third Way and a New Left
There are fashionable terms that are at once misleading and revealing. The third way is one of them. There was a time when this concept had a genuine meaning. Back in the 1950s, for the so-called revisionists in Eastern Europe it spelled the search for democratic socialism that had nothing to do with its Stalinist perversion but was not a return to capitalism either. For some radical dissidents in the West it had the same signi?cance: it was thei…
Round table on the future of the left
Why We Need A New Manifesto
We need a new manifesto. Not a blueprint, not a detailed program. But a project, the vision of a different society, the proof that history has not come to an end, that there is a future beyond capitalism. We need it badly because its absence is the main weapon of our enemies. The nickname of Maggie Thatcher, TINA (There Is No Alternative) is the foundation on which their mighty propaganda machine rests.This article can also be found at the Monthl…
The Ethical Significance of Corporate Teleology
The most common corporate reaction to public concern over the ethics of their business practices and the sensitivity of their organization to social expectations is to promote policies and rules designed to bring about a set of socially responsive behaviours and actions. The result of this corporate deontological approach is to create a teleopathic culture that relieves decision makers from the personal responsibil ity for the consequences of the…
The French Winter of Discontent
On November 15 1995 Alain Juppe, the arrogant French Prime Minister, presented his plan to parliament for mastering expenditure on welfare, and particularly on national health. His proposed reform of the social services would, among other things, give him powers to act by decree and to transfer control of social services to parliament, away from bodies controlled jointly by employers and employees. He did not know, nor did anyone else, that he wo…
Requiem for Social Democracy
The fall of the Soviet empire was greeted not only as the funeral of socialism. It was also described as marking the final dead end for all revolutionary roads. The practitioners of revolution—Robespierre and Cromwell—as well as its theoreticians—Luxemburg and Marx—were lumped together in retrospective condemnation. Logically, such an offensive against the very idea of radical transformation should have been coupled with praise for gradualism, fo…
Why Marxism
Just before I left Paris I got a book from Michael Lowy with a new preface and a quotation I want to share with you. It said "Marx is definitely dead for humankind." Come on Daniel, you will object, did you have to travel all the way to give us that tripe we can get here for a penny a dozen! But it's not your tripe. It comes from Italy. It is by Benedetto Croce from 1907 and it's exactly ninety years old. I have quoted it to remind you that grave…
Is Socialism Doomed
Moment of Truth for Social Democracy
The coming years, the turn of this millennium, will be crucial for the left in western Europe. The way in which capital tackles the current structural crisis, growing unemployment, the open attack on the welfare state present a problem for social democracy, taken here in its now accepted definition: the reformist management of capitalist society. The message for today is plain. There is to be no more fooling with "capitalism with a human face." T…
Europe's Crises
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a well-orchestrated chorus proclaimed the end of history and capitalist eternity. History, as if offended by such silly predictions, quickened pace and today nobody will seriously contend that everything is for the best in the best all of possible capitalist worlds. On the contrary, we are obviously living in a time of deep crisis. The rapid capitalist invasion of Eastern Europe, nicknamed shock therapy,…
The resistible rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
This article offers an overview of the growth of electoral support in France for the Front National [FN] and of the political biography of its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. It argues that the extreme right has become a permanent feature of French politics and offers an explanation of why it is that the FN moved to the centre of the political stage in France during the 1980s. The explanation places particular emphasis upon the shifting balance of pol…
Prometheus Rebound
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;/ To defy Power which seems omnipotent;/ To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates/From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...- Shelley, Prometheus UnboundThis 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
Their Ideology and Ours
Review of The Power of Ideology by István Mészáros.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 Revolution
Maggie Thatcher, George Bush, Helmut Kohl and similar sans-culottes will join Francois Mitterrand in Paris, where I live, on the 14th of July, two hundred years after the storming of the Bastille. They will not be there to dance the Carmagnole, but to bury the French Revolution with faint rather than fulsome praise. The anniversary is celebrated as a funeral to proclaim, with the help of the media and of fashionable historians, that the age of re…
Wither the Soviet Union
Can radical reforms from above prevent a revolution, an upheaval from below? This classical question must now be applied to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as a whole. And it must be answered within a historical context. I ask the reader's forgiveness in advance if my summaries, definitions, and propositions, aimed simply at starting a debate, sound and really are oversimplified.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, wh…
The Intelligentsia and Soviet Change
Review of Revolution from Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going? by Tariq Ali; The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present by Boris Kagarlitsky.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
Is Socialism Doomed
Twenty Years On
The ghost of communism is not haunting Western Europe. Paris is no longer the capital of revolutionary hope. A visitor returning there after a long interval could hardly believe that this was the same town where twenty years earlier the established order was trembling, and imagination was supposed to seize power. Ironically, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary, the French staged one of these general elections which, for all the apparent pomp a…
Mitterand's Achievement
"Revolutions," Rosa Luxemburg wrote, "are the only kind of war in which ultimate victory can only be prepared through a series of 'defeats.'" The implication was that defeats are not in vain if we can learn from them. Today ultimate victory looks distant on the European horizon, but I still propose to draw some lessons from the severe defeat suffered by the French left in the recent parliamentary election.This article can also be found at the Mon…
The Road to Gdansk. Poland and the U.S.S.R
Bahro Refuted
IN 1917, THE RUSSIAN WORKING CLASS became the most revolutionary in the world. Decades of ruthless capitalist exploitation and the crisis of World War I had combined to make the proletariat the leading force in the March Revolution. The March days saw the spontaneous creation of institutions of workers' power in the Soviets which sprang up everywhere, providing a mecha nism for popular control and resistance to an increasingly unpopular provi sio…
The resistible rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
This article offers an overview of the growth of electoral support in France for the Front National [FN] and of the political biography of its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. It argues that the extreme right has become a permanent feature of French politics and offers an explanation of why it is that the FN moved to the centre of the political stage in France during the 1980s. The explanation places particular emphasis upon the shifting balance of pol…
Prometheus Rebound
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;/ To defy Power which seems omnipotent;/ To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates/From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...- Shelley, Prometheus UnboundThis 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 Road to Gdansk
The Road to Gdansk
The French Winter of Discontent
On November 15 1995 Alain Juppe, the arrogant French Prime Minister, presented his plan to parliament for mastering expenditure on welfare, and particularly on national health. His proposed reform of the social services would, among other things, give him powers to act by decree and to transfer control of social services to parliament, away from bodies controlled jointly by employers and employees. He did not know, nor did anyone else, that he wo…
Is Socialism Doomed
On Revolution
Maggie Thatcher, George Bush, Helmut Kohl and similar sans-culottes will join Francois Mitterrand in Paris, where I live, on the 14th of July, two hundred years after the storming of the Bastille. They will not be there to dance the Carmagnole, but to bury the French Revolution with faint rather than fulsome praise. The anniversary is celebrated as a funeral to proclaim, with the help of the media and of fashionable historians, that the age of re…
Wither the Soviet Union
Can radical reforms from above prevent a revolution, an upheaval from below? This classical question must now be applied to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as a whole. And it must be answered within a historical context. I ask the reader's forgiveness in advance if my summaries, definitions, and propositions, aimed simply at starting a debate, sound and really are oversimplified.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, wh…
Is Socialism Doomed
Class Struggle in Poland
It looked like the signing of a peace treaty between two sovereign powers. It was nearly 5 p.m. on that Sunday when—amid flashes of cameras and the noise of the recorders—the two main protagonists, their brief speeches over, signed the 21-point protocol. True, the setting was not very typical of diplomatic occasions. The ceremony was being held in the Lenin Shipyards and beamed through loudspeakers to thousands of workers standing outside. Nor wa…
Prelude to Revolution
""Daniel Singer is the left's most brilliant arsonist. He sets ablaze whole forests of desiccated cliches about 'the end of history' and 'the triumph of the market' in order to light the way forward for the next generation of radical thinkers and activists."-Mike Davis An essential firsthand account of the May 1968 upheaval in France."
Weakness and Potentialities of the Dissident Movement
A century ago Russian tsardom seemed terrorized by a handful of rebels. Today, the Soviet rulers give the impression of not being unduly worried by their dissidents, despite the echo their protests arouse around the world. The reason for this declining power of the dissident intelligentsia cannot be quantitative. Without entering here into a semantic argument about the definition of the intelligentsia, it is obvious that the educated strata from …
Class Struggle in Poland
It looked like the signing of a peace treaty between two sovereign powers. It was nearly 5 p.m. on that Sunday when—amid flashes of cameras and the noise of the recorders—the two main protagonists, their brief speeches over, signed the 21-point protocol. True, the setting was not very typical of diplomatic occasions. The ceremony was being held in the Lenin Shipyards and beamed through loudspeakers to thousands of workers standing outside. Nor wa…
The Road to Gdansk
The Revolution is But a Beginning
Review of Post-Revolutionary Society by Paul M. Sweezy.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
Août-octobre 1980
The Road to Gdansk
The Road to Gdansk. Poland and the U.S.S.R
Bahro Refuted
IN 1917, THE RUSSIAN WORKING CLASS became the most revolutionary in the world. Decades of ruthless capitalist exploitation and the crisis of World War I had combined to make the proletariat the leading force in the March Revolution. The March days saw the spontaneous creation of institutions of workers' power in the Soviets which sprang up everywhere, providing a mecha nism for popular control and resistance to an increasingly unpopular provi sio…
Mitterand's Achievement
"Revolutions," Rosa Luxemburg wrote, "are the only kind of war in which ultimate victory can only be prepared through a series of 'defeats.'" The implication was that defeats are not in vain if we can learn from them. Today ultimate victory looks distant on the European horizon, but I still propose to draw some lessons from the severe defeat suffered by the French left in the recent parliamentary election.This article can also be found at the Mon…
Is Socialism Doomed
Twenty Years On
The ghost of communism is not haunting Western Europe. Paris is no longer the capital of revolutionary hope. A visitor returning there after a long interval could hardly believe that this was the same town where twenty years earlier the established order was trembling, and imagination was supposed to seize power. Ironically, to celebrate the twentieth anniversary, the French staged one of these general elections which, for all the apparent pomp a…
On Revolution
Maggie Thatcher, George Bush, Helmut Kohl and similar sans-culottes will join Francois Mitterrand in Paris, where I live, on the 14th of July, two hundred years after the storming of the Bastille. They will not be there to dance the Carmagnole, but to bury the French Revolution with faint rather than fulsome praise. The anniversary is celebrated as a funeral to proclaim, with the help of the media and of fashionable historians, that the age of re…
Wither the Soviet Union
Can radical reforms from above prevent a revolution, an upheaval from below? This classical question must now be applied to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as a whole. And it must be answered within a historical context. I ask the reader's forgiveness in advance if my summaries, definitions, and propositions, aimed simply at starting a debate, sound and really are oversimplified.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, wh…
The Intelligentsia and Soviet Change
Review of Revolution from Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going? by Tariq Ali; The Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State from 1917 to the Present by Boris Kagarlitsky.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
Prometheus Rebound
To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;/ To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;/ To defy Power which seems omnipotent;/ To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates/From its own wreck the thing it contemplates...- Shelley, Prometheus UnboundThis 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
Their Ideology and Ours
Review of The Power of Ideology by István Mészáros.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 resistible rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen
This article offers an overview of the growth of electoral support in France for the Front National [FN] and of the political biography of its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. It argues that the extreme right has become a permanent feature of French politics and offers an explanation of why it is that the FN moved to the centre of the political stage in France during the 1980s. The explanation places particular emphasis upon the shifting balance of pol…
Europe's Crises
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, a well-orchestrated chorus proclaimed the end of history and capitalist eternity. History, as if offended by such silly predictions, quickened pace and today nobody will seriously contend that everything is for the best in the best all of possible capitalist worlds. On the contrary, we are obviously living in a time of deep crisis. The rapid capitalist invasion of Eastern Europe, nicknamed shock therapy,…
Is Socialism Doomed
Moment of Truth for Social Democracy
The coming years, the turn of this millennium, will be crucial for the left in western Europe. The way in which capital tackles the current structural crisis, growing unemployment, the open attack on the welfare state present a problem for social democracy, taken here in its now accepted definition: the reformist management of capitalist society. The message for today is plain. There is to be no more fooling with "capitalism with a human face." T…
The Ethical Significance of Corporate Teleology
The most common corporate reaction to public concern over the ethics of their business practices and the sensitivity of their organization to social expectations is to promote policies and rules designed to bring about a set of socially responsive behaviours and actions. The result of this corporate deontological approach is to create a teleopathic culture that relieves decision makers from the personal responsibil ity for the consequences of the…
The French Winter of Discontent
On November 15 1995 Alain Juppe, the arrogant French Prime Minister, presented his plan to parliament for mastering expenditure on welfare, and particularly on national health. His proposed reform of the social services would, among other things, give him powers to act by decree and to transfer control of social services to parliament, away from bodies controlled jointly by employers and employees. He did not know, nor did anyone else, that he wo…
Requiem for Social Democracy
The fall of the Soviet empire was greeted not only as the funeral of socialism. It was also described as marking the final dead end for all revolutionary roads. The practitioners of revolution—Robespierre and Cromwell—as well as its theoreticians—Luxemburg and Marx—were lumped together in retrospective condemnation. Logically, such an offensive against the very idea of radical transformation should have been coupled with praise for gradualism, fo…
Why Marxism
Just before I left Paris I got a book from Michael Lowy with a new preface and a quotation I want to share with you. It said "Marx is definitely dead for humankind." Come on Daniel, you will object, did you have to travel all the way to give us that tripe we can get here for a penny a dozen! But it's not your tripe. It comes from Italy. It is by Benedetto Croce from 1907 and it's exactly ninety years old. I have quoted it to remind you that grave…
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