Home - Historical Materialism

Marx and Engels as Polyglots

Karl Marx’s 1852 work The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte opens with the famous remark that men ‘make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please.’[1] He goes on to argue that whatever happens in the present time arises from and is a reaction to a political past. Recollecting and interpreting the past

Historical Materialism Conference East and Southeast Asia 2025 – Schedule

Statement by the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism

Strains in a Revolutionary Leadership: Dobbs-Cannon Tensions in the US Socialist Workers’ Party

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

Aug 2025 | book-series

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic. Political Economy and Crisis

Sep 2025 | book-series

Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory

Sep 2025 | book-series

The Constitution of Socialism. A World without Capital

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

More...