Jim Vernon

Vivek Chibber

Juan González

Elinor Taylor

Mike Beggs

MAtteo Tiratelli

This issue of Catalyst opens with an important essay by Mike Beggs on market socialism. Over the past few years, Catalyst has published essays by Sam Gindin and by John Roemer on the subject, with each offering his own arguments for a viable socialism, albeit one in which markets play an important role. In his contribution, Beggs places the democratic firm at the core and shows that if it is to be the microeconomic foundation of market socialism, it calls for a specific constellation of institutional supports to generate the desired macroeconomic outcomes. Beggs brilliantly lays out the overall structure of such a system with a level of detail rarely encountered in the literature.

Vol.6, No.3

Catalyst

In The Popular Front Novel in Britain Elinor Taylor examines British Communist novels of the 1930s and argues that the realist novel of the left was a crucial site in which the politics of the Popular Front were rehearsed.

The Popular Front Novel in Britain, 1934-1940

Nick Hubble

Luke Seaber

With austerity biting hard and fascism on the march at home and abroad, the Britain of the 1930s grappled with many problems familiar to us today. Moving beyond the traditional focus on 'the Auden generation', this book surveys the literature of the period in all its diversity, from working class, women, queer and postcolonial writers to popular crime and thriller novels. In this way, the book explores the uneven processes of modernization and cultural democratization that characterized the decade. A major critical re-evaluation of the decade, the book covers such writers as Eric Ambler, Mulk Raj Anand, Katharine Burdekin, Agatha Christie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Christopher Isherwood, Storm Jameson, Ethel Mannin, Naomi Mitchison, George Orwell, Christina Stead, Evelyn Waugh and many others.

The 1930s: A Decade of Modern British Fiction

Elinor Taylor

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