No. 1372 December 2018

Socialist Standard December 2018

• Editorial: The vote and its misuse

• Pathfinders: The Only Way Is Ethics (Not)

• Letters

• Brexit, Schmexit

• Cooking the Books: Fukuyama goes reformist

• Wood for the Trees: The Cool

• Material World: Brazil – people elect a populist

• Trump’s Economist Advisors Seeing Red Everywhere

• Donald Trump: bog standard capitalist

• The problem is not the banks … it’s capitalism

• Bolshevik anti-socialism

• Cooking the Books: Message from Gotha

• Proper Gander: Pulling The Trigger

• Book Review: ‘Radical Political Economy – Sraffa versus Marx’

• Book Review: ‘Asia’s Reckoning – the Struggle for Global Dominance’

• Book Review: ‘The Dutch and German Communist Left (1900–68)’

• Exhibition Review: Annie Swynnerton – Painting Light and Hope

• 50 Years Ago: Law and Order in the U.S.A.

• Obituary: Bob Beckett

• Rear View

• Cartoon: Free Lunch