Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

Folk-Socialism, a Left Populist Disorder

Richard Löwenthal (1908-1991) was a German Jewish writer and political scientist. In the Weimar Republic he belonged to the Communist youth movement and then to a revolutionary splinter group called the Leninist Organisation, also known as New Beginning. He helped organise underground resistance to the Nazi regime before he was forced into exile. He published

Paul Schäfer: Opponent of Hitler, Victim of Stalin

Nepal: The Failure of Refurbished Stalinism and Maoism, the Attempts by Hindutva and Imperialism

The Sacralisation of History: The Holocaust as State Legitimation

Journals

Sep 2025 | journal

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1, 2025

May 2025 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4, 2024

Dec 2024 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 3, 2024

Events

6th Nov 2025 10:00 | event

Twenty-Second Annual Conference

23rd Jul 2025 9:00 | event

Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia 2025

26th Jun 2025 9:00 | event

Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025): Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe

Books

Nov 2025 | book-series

Lenin’s Comintern Revisited

Oct 2025 | book-series

Poetics of Value. The Primacy of Insurgency as Marxist Methodology

Nov 2025 | book-series

Toward the Scientific Defence of Historical Materialism Basic Elements of the Historical View of Nature, Cognition from the Historical Point of View, The Science of Social Consciousness

Networks

Podcast

Broadcasts

Historical Materialism
A podcast on critical Marxist theory

Episode 9: Racecraft

How does racialisation shape the labour process? How is race formed in the transition from slavery to wage labour? What is the role of racecraft in wage labour exploitation?

Episode 8

Palestine

Episode 7

Marxism and Health

Episode 6

Insurgent Universality

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