I am an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lehman College and John Jay College, CUNY. I received my doctorate from the CUNY Graduate Center. I am the editor of Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and author of Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). For many years I was co-editor of New Politics (newpol.org).
A recent book by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin critiques the shortcomings of Social Democratic gover... more A recent book by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin critiques the shortcomings of Social Democratic governance and campaign platforms and discusses the difficulties of left-socialist political strategy in Europe and the United States.
Review of "The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can
Overcome the Crises of Capitalism... more Review of "The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism" by Paul S. Adler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Reviews of "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian... more Reviews of "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, eds., Grove Press, 2003, and "Let Justice Well Up Like Water: Progressive Jews from Hillel to Helen Suzman," by Bennett Muraskin, Center for Cultural Judaism, 2004. New Politics, Winter 2005, Vol. 10 Issue 2, pp. 171-173.
Review of Stephen Eric Bronner, Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions & the... more Review of Stephen Eric Bronner, Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions & the Erosion of American Democracy. New Politics, Summer 2006, Vol. 11 Issue 1, pp. 153-155.
Review of Paul Le Blanc, Unfinished Leninism: The Rise & Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine. New ... more Review of Paul Le Blanc, Unfinished Leninism: The Rise & Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine. New Politics, Winter 2016, Vol. 15 Issue 4, pp. 127-131.
Review of Designing Socialism: Visions, Projections, Models (Al Campbell, ed.) and Of the People,... more Review of Designing Socialism: Visions, Projections, Models (Al Campbell, ed.) and Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy by Robin Hahnel. Published in New Politics (Summer 2016) pp. 109-115.
Review of Peter Hudis, Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalist Society (Chicago: Haymarke... more Review of Peter Hudis, Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalist Society (Chicago: Haymarket, 2013), in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Spring 2014, <http://logosjournal.com/2014/schulman-hudis/>
Review of Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton: Princeton U... more Review of Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007). Published in New Politics Vol. 12 No. 4, Winter 2010: 62-65.
Review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, in Perspect... more Review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, in Perspectives on Politics (Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2016).
Review of Werner Bonefeld, Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion a... more Review of Werner Bonefeld, Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason (New York: Bloombsbury Academic, 2014). Published in New Political Science, June 2015: 291-94.
A review essay in New Political Science Volume 31, Number 2, June 2009, of Peter Barnes, Capitali... more A review essay in New Political Science Volume 31, Number 2, June 2009, of Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (San Francisco: Berrett Koehler, 2006) and Robert B. Reich, Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
Review of Jonathan Joseph, Marxism and Social Theory, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, in New ... more Review of Jonathan Joseph, Marxism and Social Theory, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, in New Political Science Volume 29, Number 4, December 2007.
Review of The Rise and Fall of the House of Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein, published in New Politi... more Review of The Rise and Fall of the House of Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein, published in New Political Science in 2007.
The global financial crisis and recession of 2008-9 appears to have sounded the death knell of th... more The global financial crisis and recession of 2008-9 appears to have sounded the death knell of the political dominance of neoliberal doctrine. If the long-prevailing common wisdom was that unfettered markets ensure efficiency and prosperity, the crisis at the very least reminded the world of the Keynesian wisdom that financial deregulation inevitably leads to speculative bubbles and bursts because financial markets are based on uncertain information about future economic performance. As a result, even politicians of the right have abandoned their fealty to free markets; France’s Nicholas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel have called for a regulated “moral capitalism.” However, though the crisis has occurred predominantly under right-wing governments, as of this writing it seems unlikely that the parties of the mainstream left will benefit. In Western Europe, the social democratic parties are themselves associated with neoliberal economics and have not built a credible continent-wi...
Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review, 2019
Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are priced via computation of embo... more Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are priced via computation of embodied labour-time with remuneration such that one hour of actual labour is exchanged for items produced in one hour. But implementing Marx’s scheme today would incentivize increased individual labour time and drive a tendency to ecologically harmful “growth.” As pushing beyond capitalism remains indispensable, we must assess newer models of socialist planning and distribution providing alternatives to capitalism and market socialism
Abstract:
Lars T. Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered: “What Is to Be Done?” in Context, containing new t... more Abstract:
Lars T. Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered: “What Is to Be Done?” in Context, containing new translations of heretofore mangled Russian terms, proves that Lenin was not initially an authoritarian. It elucidates why What Is To Be Done? is more democratic than popularly believed, but The State and Revolution – not analyzed by Lih – is, ironically, less democratic, given its technocratic picture of “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” an outgrowth of Marx’s class-reductionist definition of politics and Engels’ vision of communism as the “administration of things.” This essay reveals what Lenin owed to Kautsky’s democratic Marxism and critiques Lukács’ theoretical justification for “Leninism.”
Accepted for publication by Theory in Action. Tentatively scheduled for publication in Vol. 12, No. 3, July 31, 2019.
A recent book by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin critiques the shortcomings of Social Democratic gover... more A recent book by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin critiques the shortcomings of Social Democratic governance and campaign platforms and discusses the difficulties of left-socialist political strategy in Europe and the United States.
Review of "The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can
Overcome the Crises of Capitalism... more Review of "The 99 Percent Economy: How Democratic Socialism Can Overcome the Crises of Capitalism" by Paul S. Adler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Reviews of "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian... more Reviews of "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, eds., Grove Press, 2003, and "Let Justice Well Up Like Water: Progressive Jews from Hillel to Helen Suzman," by Bennett Muraskin, Center for Cultural Judaism, 2004. New Politics, Winter 2005, Vol. 10 Issue 2, pp. 171-173.
Review of Stephen Eric Bronner, Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions & the... more Review of Stephen Eric Bronner, Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions & the Erosion of American Democracy. New Politics, Summer 2006, Vol. 11 Issue 1, pp. 153-155.
Review of Paul Le Blanc, Unfinished Leninism: The Rise & Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine. New ... more Review of Paul Le Blanc, Unfinished Leninism: The Rise & Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine. New Politics, Winter 2016, Vol. 15 Issue 4, pp. 127-131.
Review of Designing Socialism: Visions, Projections, Models (Al Campbell, ed.) and Of the People,... more Review of Designing Socialism: Visions, Projections, Models (Al Campbell, ed.) and Of the People, By the People: The Case for a Participatory Economy by Robin Hahnel. Published in New Politics (Summer 2016) pp. 109-115.
Review of Peter Hudis, Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalist Society (Chicago: Haymarke... more Review of Peter Hudis, Marx’s Concept of the Alternative to Capitalist Society (Chicago: Haymarket, 2013), in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Spring 2014, <http://logosjournal.com/2014/schulman-hudis/>
Review of Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton: Princeton U... more Review of Robin Archer, Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007). Published in New Politics Vol. 12 No. 4, Winter 2010: 62-65.
Review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, in Perspect... more Review of Immanuel Ness, Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class, in Perspectives on Politics (Vol. 14, No. 2, June 2016).
Review of Werner Bonefeld, Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion a... more Review of Werner Bonefeld, Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason (New York: Bloombsbury Academic, 2014). Published in New Political Science, June 2015: 291-94.
A review essay in New Political Science Volume 31, Number 2, June 2009, of Peter Barnes, Capitali... more A review essay in New Political Science Volume 31, Number 2, June 2009, of Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (San Francisco: Berrett Koehler, 2006) and Robert B. Reich, Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007).
Review of Jonathan Joseph, Marxism and Social Theory, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, in New ... more Review of Jonathan Joseph, Marxism and Social Theory, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006, in New Political Science Volume 29, Number 4, December 2007.
Review of The Rise and Fall of the House of Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein, published in New Politi... more Review of The Rise and Fall of the House of Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein, published in New Political Science in 2007.
The global financial crisis and recession of 2008-9 appears to have sounded the death knell of th... more The global financial crisis and recession of 2008-9 appears to have sounded the death knell of the political dominance of neoliberal doctrine. If the long-prevailing common wisdom was that unfettered markets ensure efficiency and prosperity, the crisis at the very least reminded the world of the Keynesian wisdom that financial deregulation inevitably leads to speculative bubbles and bursts because financial markets are based on uncertain information about future economic performance. As a result, even politicians of the right have abandoned their fealty to free markets; France’s Nicholas Sarkozy and Germany’s Angela Merkel have called for a regulated “moral capitalism.” However, though the crisis has occurred predominantly under right-wing governments, as of this writing it seems unlikely that the parties of the mainstream left will benefit. In Western Europe, the social democratic parties are themselves associated with neoliberal economics and have not built a credible continent-wi...
Studies in Political Economy: A Socialist Review, 2019
Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are priced via computation of embo... more Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are priced via computation of embodied labour-time with remuneration such that one hour of actual labour is exchanged for items produced in one hour. But implementing Marx’s scheme today would incentivize increased individual labour time and drive a tendency to ecologically harmful “growth.” As pushing beyond capitalism remains indispensable, we must assess newer models of socialist planning and distribution providing alternatives to capitalism and market socialism
Abstract:
Lars T. Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered: “What Is to Be Done?” in Context, containing new t... more Abstract:
Lars T. Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered: “What Is to Be Done?” in Context, containing new translations of heretofore mangled Russian terms, proves that Lenin was not initially an authoritarian. It elucidates why What Is To Be Done? is more democratic than popularly believed, but The State and Revolution – not analyzed by Lih – is, ironically, less democratic, given its technocratic picture of “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” an outgrowth of Marx’s class-reductionist definition of politics and Engels’ vision of communism as the “administration of things.” This essay reveals what Lenin owed to Kautsky’s democratic Marxism and critiques Lukács’ theoretical justification for “Leninism.”
Accepted for publication by Theory in Action. Tentatively scheduled for publication in Vol. 12, No. 3, July 31, 2019.
The British Labour Party's embrace of neoliberal policies through the government of Tony Blair wa... more The British Labour Party's embrace of neoliberal policies through the government of Tony Blair was principally the result of a shift to a more passive approach to union–party relations on the part of organized labour. The labor movement's defensiveness created the opening through which Blair and his colleagues moved to establish a close relationship with business, bringing the Party into a " neoliberal power network, " actively contributing to the reproduction of neoliberal hegemony. This passivity continued under Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, exemplified by the unions' endorsement of the Collins Review, thus effectively block-voting for the Labour Party to " distance itself " from them. Yet Jeremy Corbyn, who defied expectations and led Labour to sweeping victories in the recent British general election, has a quite different relationship with the unions. This paper will provide details and determine if the unions' political and industrial strategies have substantially changed now that a clearly pro-labor MP leads the Labour Party.
A commentary on the active support given by part of the Left to Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Se... more A commentary on the active support given by part of the Left to Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Serbia during the NATO-Serbia war of 1999. Printed in Science & Society, Vol. 67, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 223-225.
An essay on the postmodern critique of Marxism and where it goes awry. Published in Jacobin No. 2... more An essay on the postmodern critique of Marxism and where it goes awry. Published in Jacobin No. 2 (2011).
Table of contents and introductory chapter to my book Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union... more Table of contents and introductory chapter to my book Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
A review of Stanley Aronowitz and Peter Bratsis, eds. Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, M... more A review of Stanley Aronowitz and Peter Bratsis, eds. Paradigm Lost: State Theory Reconsidered, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002, and Stanley Aronowitz and Heather Gautney, eds., Implicating Empire: Globalization and Resistance in the Twenty-first Century World Order, New York: Basic Books, 2003. From Radical Society, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2003) 83-86.
The table of contents and introduction to Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy (New York: Palgrave... more The table of contents and introduction to Rosa Luxemburg: Her Life and Legacy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
An analysis of the political theories of prominent Labor and Socialist Zionists. Published in New... more An analysis of the political theories of prominent Labor and Socialist Zionists. Published in New Politics, vol. 9, no. 3 (new series), whole no. 35, Summer 2003.
A contribution to the debate over liberalism and republicanism as it pertains to socialist politi... more A contribution to the debate over liberalism and republicanism as it pertains to socialist politics. Published in Rational Radicalism and Political Theory: Essays in Honor of Stephen Eric Bronner, Michael J. Thompson, ed. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010).
Abstract: Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are “priced” via computa... more Abstract: Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are “priced” via computation of embodied labor-time with remuneration such that one hour of actual labor is exchanged for items produced in one hour. But implementing Marx’s scheme today would incentivize increased individual labor time and drive a tendency to ecologically-harmful “growth.” As pushing beyond capitalism remains indispensable we must assess newer models of socialist planning and distribution providing alternatives to capitalism and “market socialism.”
Presented at “Rosa Remix: New Takes on a Longtime Classic,” August 22,
New School for Social Res... more Presented at “Rosa Remix: New Takes on a Longtime Classic,” August 22, New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Later published in Rosa Remix (New York: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York Office, 2016).
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Overcome the Crises of Capitalism" by Paul S. Adler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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Lars T. Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered: “What Is to Be Done?” in Context, containing new translations of heretofore mangled Russian terms, proves that Lenin was not initially an authoritarian. It elucidates why What Is To Be Done? is more democratic than popularly believed, but The State and Revolution – not analyzed by Lih – is, ironically, less democratic, given its technocratic picture of “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” an outgrowth of Marx’s class-reductionist definition of politics and Engels’ vision of communism as the “administration of things.” This essay reveals what Lenin owed to Kautsky’s democratic Marxism and critiques Lukács’ theoretical justification for “Leninism.”
Accepted for publication by Theory in Action. Tentatively scheduled for publication in Vol. 12, No. 3, July 31, 2019.
Overcome the Crises of Capitalism" by Paul S. Adler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Lars T. Lih’s Lenin Rediscovered: “What Is to Be Done?” in Context, containing new translations of heretofore mangled Russian terms, proves that Lenin was not initially an authoritarian. It elucidates why What Is To Be Done? is more democratic than popularly believed, but The State and Revolution – not analyzed by Lih – is, ironically, less democratic, given its technocratic picture of “the dictatorship of the proletariat,” an outgrowth of Marx’s class-reductionist definition of politics and Engels’ vision of communism as the “administration of things.” This essay reveals what Lenin owed to Kautsky’s democratic Marxism and critiques Lukács’ theoretical justification for “Leninism.”
Accepted for publication by Theory in Action. Tentatively scheduled for publication in Vol. 12, No. 3, July 31, 2019.
Published in the Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal in 2019. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10672-019-09331-0
in the Twenty-first Century World Order, New York: Basic Books, 2003. From Radical Society, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2003) 83-86.
whole no. 35, Summer 2003.
Accepted//Accepté: The Great Transition // La Grande Transition - Montreal May 17-20 Mai (https://thegreattransition.net/home/)
New School for Social Research, New York, NY. Later published in Rosa Remix (New York: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, New York Office, 2016).