Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

The Sacralisation of History: The Holocaust as State Legitimation

There is a cruel historical irony in Israel’s ferocious genocidal war on the besieged Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank: the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazi Wehrmacht in 1943 was one of the most tragic episodes in the genocide perpetrated against European Jewry during the Second World War. Yet the

Materialism and the Legal Form

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The USSR Home Front and World War II

Geert Reuten: a fond recollection

Journals

May 2025 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4, 2024

Dec 2024 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 3, 2024

Nov 2024 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 2, 2024

Events

6th Nov 2025 12:00 | 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

Rationality and the Poet. Recollections of Bertolt Brecht and Selected Writings

Nov 2025 | book-series

Mode of Production. The Final Horizon of Practice and Theory

Aug 2025 | book-series

Helene Bauer in Vienna. Political Economy Between Two World Wars

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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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