Bøger af James Herod

After thirty years of counter-revolution in the USA and worldwide (1970-2000, and continuing) it was heartening that a renewed anti-capitalist movement burst on the scene around 2000. It seems to be gathering strength, with many millions finally connecting the dots between capitalism and their many miseries. Whether this movement can ever defeat the global capitalist ruling class and thus save civilization and the earth is doubtful. But this is our only hope. Perhaps the essays presented here can help in some small way to further that revolution.

At the end of the 1960s there began a sizeable surge among some of the most militant New Left activists back into the Old Left and to the vanguard strategy for defeating capitalists. This small book was written in opposition to that trend. It is an exploration of what an egalitarian, directly democratic strategy might look like.

This text presents mathematical biology as a field with a unity of its own, rather than only the intrusion of one science into another. The book focuses on problems of contemporary interest, such as cancer, genetics, and the rapidly growing field of genomics.