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Historical Materialism

Research in Critical Marxist Theory

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Historical Materialism is a Marxist journal, appearing four times a year, based in London. Founded in 1997, it asserts that, notwithstanding the variety of its practical and theoretical articulations, Marxism constitutes the most fertile conceptual framework for analysing social phenomena, with an eye to their overhaul. In our selection of materials, we do not favour any one tendency, tradition or variant. Marx demanded the ‘merciless criticism of everything that exists’: for us that includes Marxism itself.

Fourth North American Conference

May 2012, York University, Toronto, Canada

The 2012 HM conference in Toronto is being organized.  North American HM conferences have been organized since 2006 in Toronto and New York City (which will now alternate with bi-annual Spring conferences). 

More information forthcoming.

Historical Materialism Book Series looking for new projects

The Historical Materialism Book Series is looking for book proposals of the following type:

  • scholarly monographs on Marx and Marxism, or applications of Marxist methods to particular fields and issues
  • translations of works by non-anglophone Marxist writers
  • republications of Marxist classics with a new editorial apparatus
  • thematically coherent anthologies of Marxist texts


Please send all proposals, with a full account of the proposed structure and argument of the proposed volume (including estimated total word length and delivery date), as well as its position in relation to the existing scholarship to: historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk.

PhD dissertations are welcome as long as the author is prepared to engage in rewriting to transform it into book form.

All HM books are published in hardback form by Brill and in paperback format by Haymarket Books

The HM Book Series is also looking for copy-editors and translators to collaborate with the publishing programme. Please send your CV to the aforementioned email.

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