2013-05-312013-05-311996-01Nature, society, and thought, Vol. 9, No. 1 (January 1996)0890-6130https://hdl.handle.net/11299/149961ARTICLES: Michael Parenti, The Strange Death of President Zachary Taylor: A Case Study in the Manufacturing of Mainstream History. Ronald A. Kieve, “A Plaything in Their Hands”: American Exceptionalism and the Failure of Socialism A Reassessment. Domenico Losurdo, Marx, Columbus, and the October Revolution: Historical Materialism and the Analysis of Revolutions. MARXIST FORUM: Erwin Marquit, International Meeting of Communist and Left Parties on the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, 11–12 May 1996. BOOK REVIEWS: Bamshad Mobasher, Marx’s Mathematical Manuscripts: A Review Essay. Andrew Austin, The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education, by John K. Wilson. Christopher Paris, Economics of Racism II: The Roots of Inequality, USA, by Victor Perlo. ABSTRACTS OF ARTICLES (in English and French).enNewsletter or Bulletin