A Review of Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky by Leon Trotsky, with a Preface by H.N. Brailsford and a Foreword by Slavoj Žižek Harrison Fluss Department of Philosophy, St John’s University, Jamaica, New York; Department of Philosophy, Manhattan College, Riverdale, New York hfluss01@manhattan.edu Abstract This review looks back at Leon Trotsky’s
* Alberto Toscano The State as organized tuberculosis; if the germs of the plague were to organize, they would found the world Kingdom. Georg Lukács, Notes on Dostoevsky (1915) It is commonplace when commenting on crises of various stripes to note their capacity suddenly to reveal what the seemingly smooth reproduction of the
Christopher R. Cox, University of Washington Jason W. Moore has been written off by an influential group of peers, unjustly in my opinion. Therefore, instead of writing another ruthless critique of Capitalism in the Web of Life, I attempted to show how the book is an important contribution to the ever-expanding world of Marxism.
Alf Hornborg, Lund University What constitutes acceptable Marxist theory is a topic of endless debate. Over the past few decades, much ink has been devoted to how we should go about reconciling Marxism and ecological concerns. As in earlier debates, people disagree about whose version of Marxism is most consistent with Marx’s own concepts, while
Xavier Lafrance teaches political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. With Charles Post, he co-edited the book Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (Palgrave 2018) and he is the author of The Making of Capitalism in France. Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914 (Brill,
Jairus Banaji The tract published below was written in India early in 1977, during the final months of the Emergency when theoretical work was a more or less enforced necessity, given that most practical activity had ceased. (A study that some of us did many years later showed that the massive strike wave of 1973–74
At Historical Materialism, we are devastated by the loss to our movement of Neil Davidson, who was a source of unflinching support to the journal, book series and conferences. We will be publishing two books by him in the book series, and we strongly encourage you to purchase his works that are available from Haymarket
* The editorial board of Historical Materialism recognises that the ongoing pandemic has rendered all planning uncertain. It is by no means guaranteed that universities in the UK and elsewhere will be open as usual in the Autumn term, nor can we calculate the personal, financial and material toll of the current public health emergency
A Review of Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt against the Last Humans, 1848–1945 by Ishay Landa Aleksandar Matković Independent Researcher salematkovic@gmail.com Abstract This article provides an overview of Ishay Landa’s book Fascism and the Masses: The Revolt against the Last Humans, 1848–1945. First, according to Landa, our preconceptions of fascism are still largely framed
A Review of Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov by James D. White Paul Le Blanc Department of History, La Roche University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania paul.leblanc@laroche.edu James D. White, (2019) Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov,Historical Materialism Book Series, Chicago: Haymarket Books. Abstract Alexander Bogdanov is a central figure in
A Review of Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India by Manjusha Nair Niloshree Bhattacharya Presidency University, Kolkata niloshree.soc@presiuniv.ac.in Abstract This review-essay explores informal workers’ politics with respect to state–labour relations in India. Locating informal workers’ movements in the context of neoliberal economic reforms, this essay focuses on how transformations in the nature of the
