Victor Wallis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3586269 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Victor Wallis |
| PRENOMES | Victor |
| SOBRENOME | Wallis |
| ASSINATURA | WALLIS V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Berklee College of Music |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 71 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 132 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 71 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1974 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Caucus for a Critical Political Science’s 2024 Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
Covid-19 and Capitalism
Covid-19 in the History of Capitalism
The Impact of Censorship on Covid-19 Policy Formation in the United States
Climate, Covid, Class, and Capital
In this essay I reflect on how the anti-ecological class interest of capital finds a parallel in capital’s role in both precipitating and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the U.S. experience, I discuss how the political Right has taken advantage of the Left’s failure to recognize the relevance of its own (anti-capitalist) ecological perspective to questioning a public health agenda largely driven by the interests of Big Pharma
Technology and Ecosocialism
Ecosocialist technology is technology guided by universal human need and by concern for the health of the natural environment. It contrasts with capitalist technology, which is driven above all by the imperatives of cost-reduction and profit-maximization within a market whose contours are shaped by the owners or state agents of capital. The contrast between ecosocialist and capitalist technology appears across all sectors of production and servic…
Socialist Practice
Socialism, Capitalism, and the Covid-19 Epidemic
In the context of coronavirus raging around the world, in April 2020 Dr. Mingliang Zhuo interviewed Prof. Victor Wallis, former editor of Socialism and Democracy, on some important issues via email. Wallis points out in the exclusive interview that the US response to the pandemic has triggered a disastrous economic depression. The United States has not done well in dealing with the epidemic. However, China, Cuba, and other countries applying soci…
Free Public Transit
Free Public Transit: And Why We Don't Pay to Ride Elevators, edited by Judith Dellheim and Jason Prince, gives readers a distinctive blend of the visionary and the practical. It surprises us with rarely publicized instances in which quite sweeping societal transformations have been carried out. The matter-of-fact narratives, covering a wide span of national settings, allow us to envision new angles from which to confront some of the key issues of…
Another Marx
The figure of Karl Marx is so bound up with what I have studied and reflected on, over the years, that I feel I have become quite well acquainted with him while only occasionally making his life st...
Socialism and Democracy
Suren: I would like us to reflect on what Socialism and Democracy has achieved within the context of a broader left, and also on what the future may hold for us – especially at this moment where we
Fractured Times
All that is solid melts into air.– Marx and Engels, 1848Almost nothing that we have inherited can any longer be taken for granted.– Eric Hobsbawm, 2002Hobsbawm’s Fractured Times is a tour de force
Marxism in the Twenty-first Century
In this interview (conducted in December 2015), Victor Wallis, an internationally renowned scholar of Marxism and class analysis shares with us his main ideas on Marxism in the twenty-first century and its relevance today, the ecological class consciousness, short history of US left, and the theoretical problems that Marxism needs to solve at present and in the twenty-first century, and so on. We can learn much from his thoughts
Capitalism Unhinged
I recall that in the first classroom lecture I gave, in September 1968, I referred to capitalism as being in crisis. I have never stopped saying this, year after year.But doesn‘t such repetition vi
Trump's Electoral Triumph
El presente artículo aborda el análisis de los personajes femeninos en las distopías cinematográficas contemporáneas, basándose en un amplio corpus de filmes del siglo XXI. A partir de las aportaciones de Laura Mulvey y Teresa de Lauretis, se explora cómo estos filmes construyen la mirada del espectador hacia dichos personajes, reproduciendo y/o transgrediendo una serie de estereotipos. Estos estereotipos serán analizados mediante la aplicación d…
Facing the Anthropocene
The Holocene is over. The Anthropocene has begun.That cannot be reversed. The climate changes already under way will last for thousands of years ... The question is not whether the Earth System is ch
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
This book should be widely read, discussed, and diffused. Building on generations of struggle and scholarship, it provides the basis for a full understanding of the US as a colonial-settler state
Introductory Note
Intersectionality's binding agent
In this essay, I explore the structural distinctiveness of class domination as compared with intersecting structures of oppression framed by race, gender, sexuality, or other criteria. Social classes are not simply demographic groupings; they are (actual or potential) agents of history. The dominant class, in a given period, shapes the main contours of social existence in every dimension. Thus, members of all oppressed groups have an interest in …
Ecosocialist Struggles
The journal Capitalism Nature Socialism (CNS) occupies a distinctive political space. It embodies in its very title the conviction that a vital link exists between ecological sanity and socialism
The Search for a Mass Ecological Constituency
A core requirement for addressing the ecological crisis will be to reverse the expansionist thrust, which is inherent in capitalism. I explore the political conditions for achieving such a reversal, asking specifically on what basis a vast popular movement inspired by this goal may emerge. Because the drive to economic accumulation arises from the class interest of capital, a coherent and effective opposition to it must reflect a class position o…
D. H. Melhem
As a tribute to our late colleague, here are two poems from her last collection, followed by an appreciation by Robert Roth. The poems appeared in D. H. Melhem, Art and Politics / Politics and Art
The Contradictions of Real Socialism
Michael Lebowitz, The Contradictions of Real Socialism: The Conductor and the Conducted (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012) The issue of “Real Socialism” has plagued the global Left since 1917
Promise and Challenge of the Occupy Movement
The nationwide Occupy movement that took off in the US in late 2011 – inspired in part by popular movements around the world – has changed the landscape of our work. It signals a vastly increased r
Their Crisis and Our Response
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
This book should be widely read, discussed, and diffused. Building on generations of struggle and scholarship, it provides the basis for a full understanding of the US as a colonial-settler state
Facing the Anthropocene
The Holocene is over. The Anthropocene has begun.That cannot be reversed. The climate changes already under way will last for thousands of years ... The question is not whether the Earth System is ch
Trump's Electoral Triumph
El presente artículo aborda el análisis de los personajes femeninos en las distopías cinematográficas contemporáneas, basándose en un amplio corpus de filmes del siglo XXI. A partir de las aportaciones de Laura Mulvey y Teresa de Lauretis, se explora cómo estos filmes construyen la mirada del espectador hacia dichos personajes, reproduciendo y/o transgrediendo una serie de estereotipos. Estos estereotipos serán analizados mediante la aplicación d…
Intersectionality's binding agent
In this essay, I explore the structural distinctiveness of class domination as compared with intersecting structures of oppression framed by race, gender, sexuality, or other criteria. Social classes are not simply demographic groupings; they are (actual or potential) agents of history. The dominant class, in a given period, shapes the main contours of social existence in every dimension. Thus, members of all oppressed groups have an interest in …
"Beyond "Green Capitalism
A disdain for the natural environment has characterized capitalism from the beginning. As Marx noted, capital abuses the soil as much as it exploits the worker. The makings of ecological breakdown are thus inherent in capitalism. No serious observer now denies the severity of the environmental crisis, but it is still not widely recognized as a capitalist crisis, that is, as a crisis arising from and perpetuated by the rule of capital, and hence i…
Another Marx
The figure of Karl Marx is so bound up with what I have studied and reflected on, over the years, that I feel I have become quite well acquainted with him while only occasionally making his life st...
Toward Ecological Socialism
2001). Toward Ecological Socialism. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 127-145
The Impact of Censorship on Covid-19 Policy Formation in the United States
Climate, Covid, Class, and Capital
In this essay I reflect on how the anti-ecological class interest of capital finds a parallel in capital’s role in both precipitating and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the U.S. experience, I discuss how the political Right has taken advantage of the Left’s failure to recognize the relevance of its own (anti-capitalist) ecological perspective to questioning a public health agenda largely driven by the interests of Big Pharma
Socialism and Technology
Technology, ecology, and socialist renewal
Covid-19 in the History of Capitalism
The Contradictions of Real Socialism
Michael Lebowitz, The Contradictions of Real Socialism: The Conductor and the Conducted (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012) The issue of “Real Socialism” has plagued the global Left since 1917
Socialist Practice
Socialism, Capitalism, and the Covid-19 Epidemic
In the context of coronavirus raging around the world, in April 2020 Dr. Mingliang Zhuo interviewed Prof. Victor Wallis, former editor of Socialism and Democracy, on some important issues via email. Wallis points out in the exclusive interview that the US response to the pandemic has triggered a disastrous economic depression. The United States has not done well in dealing with the epidemic. However, China, Cuba, and other countries applying soci…
Capitalism Unhinged
I recall that in the first classroom lecture I gave, in September 1968, I referred to capitalism as being in crisis. I have never stopped saying this, year after year.But doesn‘t such repetition vi
The Search for a Mass Ecological Constituency
A core requirement for addressing the ecological crisis will be to reverse the expansionist thrust, which is inherent in capitalism. I explore the political conditions for achieving such a reversal, asking specifically on what basis a vast popular movement inspired by this goal may emerge. Because the drive to economic accumulation arises from the class interest of capital, a coherent and effective opposition to it must reflect a class position o…
Their Crisis and Our Response
Species-Questions
Economic/Ecological Crisis and Conversion
As respostas capitalista e socialista à crise ecológica
A acumulação capitalista choca-se frontalmente com as prioridades ecológicas. Os defensores e os praticantes do "capitalismo verde" procuram alcançar objetivos ambientalistas no interior de uma estrutura definida pelo mercado. Certos melhoramentos são possíveis por tais meios, porém apenas em restritos limites. Isso se aplica não apenas a medidas empresariais, mas também a políticas governamentais, na medida em que envolvem a atribuição de valor …
Capitalist and Socialist Responses to the Ecological Crisis
The global ecological crisis sprang forth full-blown at roughly the same historical moment that global capital—welcoming the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the decay of the revolutionary process in China—was claiming a definitive victory over socialism. The irony of this historic convergence lies in the fact that there could be no more decisive a refutation of capitalist precepts than their long-term incompatibility with species-survivalThis art…
Socialismo e tecnologia
Em sua primeira seção, o artigo enfatiza a importância da tecnologia no contexto da oposição capitalismo/socialismo, tirando daí a implicação de que uma análise de suas funções e efeitos colaterais na sociedade não pode estar ausente da fundamentação teórica necessária para sustentar a luta pelo socialismo. Relacionam-se a seguir os princípios básicos que tal fundamentação deve incorporar. As demais seções apresentam uma visão panorâmica setorial…
Radical perspectives on race and racism
(2003). Radical perspectives on race and racism. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 17, Radical Perspectives on Race and Racism, pp. 3-5
Progresso ou progresso? Definindo uma tecnologia socialista
Está na hora de os socialistas recuperarem a concepção de progresso. Progresso significa melhoria. Sob o impacto hegemônico do capital, entretanto, o conceito tem sido conduzido a uma estreita trilha instrumental/tecnológica, com conseqüências desastrosas. O socialismo em sua primeira fase não desafiou esta compreensão mas, ao contrário, assumiu-a, pensando em superar o capitalismo no seu próprio terreno. Tudo isso tem levado muita gente a ver o …
"Imperialism and the "Via Chilena
Note on the Status of Federal Repressive Legislation
The Caucus at a Turning Point
Workers' Control in Latin America
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Two Elections
Elections were held in Nicaragua two days before the U.S. elections. The timing of the Nicaraguan elections had been announced nine months in advance, in anticipation of the U.S. elections' outcome. Resistance to this schedule came only from those forces which, prior to the announcement, had maintained the pretense of an anxious concern that elections be held as quickly as possible. The Sandinistas, in a break with revolutionary precedent, called…
Book Notes
Marxism in the age of Gorbachev
Archie Singham
Marxism and the U.S. Left
The "death of Marxism," widely celebrated in the capitalist press, could end up becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Why is this the case, why does it matter, and what can be done about it?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
State, Class, and Ethnicity in Nicaragua
Socialism, Ecology, and Democracy
At the time of the Russian revolution, in 1917, the capitalist world's great powers were embroiled in a war that could well be seen as portending the system's collapse. Three-quarters of a century later, as socialism's first epoch draws to a close, the capitalist system officially breathes triumphalism and invincibility.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to pur…
On Eco-Radicalism
Review of Radical Ecology: the Search for a Livable World by Carolyn Merchant.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
Unraveling Washington's Cold War
Review of Harry S. Truman and the War Scare of 1948: A Successful Campaign to Deceive the Nation by Frank Kofsky.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
Responses to Richard Flacks
Response to Victor Wallis; Reply to Ronald Aronson
Normally I do not respond to reviews, but since I respect Monthly Review so highly—indeed I have published in it—I must say a few words in reply to Victor Wallis's strange and uncomradely discussion of my book After Marxism. (MR January 1996) All those of us on the Left who have ever set pen to paper accept the possibility of hostile and uncomprehending readers: it goes with the territory when you attack the dominant ideological conventions and t…
Socialism Under Siege
Review of After Socialism by Ronald Aronson; Socialism for a Skeptical Age by Ralph Miliband.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
Lester Brown, the Worldwatch Institute, and the Dilemmas of Technocratic Revolution
The Worldwatch Institute, founded and led by Lester Brown, is the world's preeminent authority on environmental issues. This article, taking off from an in-depth examination of its publications, weighs the institute's achievements and shortcomings. Positive features are the quality of its research, the range of topics it covers, its imaginative technological proposals, and its ability to popularize. The principal (but critical) negative trait is …
Keeping the faith
(1997). Keeping the faith: The ‘60s contribution to the ‘90s left. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 109-135
Self-Portrait of a Revolutionary
Review of Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience by Mumia Abu-Jamal.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
Ecological socialism and human needs∗
1997). Ecological socialism and human needs. Capitalism Nature Socialism: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 47-51
The communist manifesto and capitalist hegemony after 150 years
(1998). The communist manifesto and capitalist hegemony after 150 years. Socialism and Democracy: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 7-13
Keeping the Faith
The future of the Left, in the United States as elsewhere, is bound up with a larger question: What will it take to bring socialism back onto the popular agenda? In the eyes of many, the defeats of the past generation have been so crushing as to make this question no longer worth asking. By the same token, however; capitalism has come to enjoy a level of exclusive hegemony unknown since before 1917. In its current global incarnation, it is plungi…
House organ
The US Left Since 1968
Current prospects for the US Left may be illuminated through a comparison with conditions prevailing in 1968. This requires going beyond the spectacular manifestations of that year to examine changes in (1) capitalism's global strength, (2) the legitimacy of dominant political forces, (3) the conditions and make-up of the Left's popular constituency, (4) the orientation of pertinent social movements and grassroots organizations, and (5) the impac…
Species Questions (Gattungsfragen)
This article examines key moments in the historical interface between issues of social class and issues of humanity’s impact on the rest of the natural world. The author argues that Marx has been unfairly characterized as downplaying the importance of nature. In fact, Marx’s work provides a grounding for the present-day view that the struggles against class domination and against abuse of the natural environment, far from being in contention with…
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