Category: Reviews

Reviews of Christian Anarchism – the Author Responds

(This is a reply to the two reviews of Christian Anarchism that appeared in ideas & action.) By Alexandre Christoyannopoulos Thanks for organising these reviews of my book. I feel I ought to respond to a couple of points. As I explain in the book just before I introduce the main sources relied on in the [...]

Movie Review: In Time – When Time Is Money…

By Scott Rittenhouse “In Time” (Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried) is a clever dystopian movie about a hypothetical future where time has become the currency of society and people literally have to work or steal to live. They have life clocks implanted in their forearm to store and spend time they have “earned” and measure how [...]

Two Reviews of Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel

(The second review was added to this post on Feb. 27, 2012; a response by the author was published on Mar. 22) An Overview of Christian Anarchist Theory By Nathan Jun, Midwestern State University, WSA/TX Alexandre Christoyannopoulos’ Christian Anarchism is a meticulously researched but readily accessible survey of an often overlooked and frequently misunderstood anarchist [...]

Venezuela from Below

Review: Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle by Rafael Uzcategui (See Sharp Press, 2010) By Tom Wetzel In her essay Latin America & Twenty-First Century Socialism (published as  an issue of Monthly Review last year), Marta Har­necker presents a description of “some features” of a decentralized, self-managed socialism based on direct democracy in workplaces and neighborhoods — [...]