Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed

The commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids, unapologetically—embarrassingly, perhaps, for those who subscribe to capitalism’s dog-eat-dog/I-got-mine-you-get-your ethic. The capitalist chicken now roosting in the White House itself.

The Artist who Took up Arms: Reclaiming the Marxist Vision of Bishnu Prasad Rabha

Henry Heller (1938–2026)

The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar

Journals

Dec 2025 | journal

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 2, 2025

Sep 2025 | journal

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1, 2025

May 2025 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4, 2024

Events

5th Nov 2026 10:00 | event

Twenty-third Annual Conference

21st Jul 2026 12:00 | event

Historical Materialism Rio 2026

2nd Jul 2026 12:00 | event

Historical Materialism Barcelona

Books

Jun 2026 | book-series

Radical Transcendentalisms

Jul 2026 | book-series

Textbook for the Materialist Conception of History

Jul 2026 | book-series

Dynamising Things: Essays on Objects, Relations, and People

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Podcast

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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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