Historical Materialism Montreal presents: The Great Transition: Building Utopias May 21st-24th 2020 atUniversité du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada Organized in collaboration with the Nouveaux cahiers du socialisme. Extended deadline: Monday November 25th, 2019 The deadline for submissions for The Great Transition 2020 has been extended to November 25. Feel free to share this
A Review of The Birth of Theory by Andrew Cole Samo Tomšič Humboldt Universität zu Berlin tomsicsa@hu-berlin.de Abstract This book review of Andrew Cole’s The Birth of Theory examines his philosophical position and the distinctive contribution of this volume to the ongoing renewal of materialist dialectics. It provides an overview of the author’s take on the history of
A Review of Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital by Matthew T. Huber Wim Carton Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies wim.carton@keg.lu.se Abstract This essay reviews Matthew Huber’s Lifeblood in the context of recent debates on the political economy of climate change. I argue that Huber’s focus on the role of oil in
A Review of Politique et État chez Deleuze et Guattari by Guilleme Sibertin-Blanc Jason Read Philosophy Department, University of Southern Maine Jason.Read@maine.edu Abstract Guilleme Sibertin-Blanc considers the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari not via a direct relation to Marx, either in terms of lineage or deviation, but in terms of their particular response
edited by Colin Barker and David Nicholls CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction – Colin Barker and David Nicholls Shifting Trajectories: Perry Anderson’s Changing Account of the Pattern of English Historical Development – Robert Looker Some Notes on Perry Anderson’s ‘Figures of Descent’ – John Saville A Subordinate Bourgeoisie’? The Question of Hegemony in Modern
A Review of China and the 21st Century Crisis by Minqi Li Burak Gürel Department of Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul bgurel@ku.edu.tr Abstract This essay discusses Minqi Li’s 2016 book on China. Li’s study examines China’s transition to capitalism since the late 1970s, and class-struggles during and after that transition. By linking this transition with the
A Review of Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture by Boris V. Andrianov, andSoviet Archaeology: Schools, Trends, and History by Leo S. Klejn Marcus Bajema Independent Researcher, The Hague, Netherlands mjbajema@hotmail.com Abstract In this review-article, I discuss one aspect of the history of Soviet science,
A Review of Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser Františka Zezuláková Schormová Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University, Prague frantiska.schormova@gmail.com schormof@ff.cuni.cz Abstract The text is a review of Benjamin Balthaser’s Anti-Imperialist Modernism: Race and Transnational Culture from the Great Depression to
Pepijn Brandon In 1944, the Caribbean anti-colonial thinker Eric Williams wrote his classical work Capitalism and Slavery. The book argued that the enormous wealth that Britain pumped out of the slave-plantations in the West-Indies in the eighteenth century contributed significantly to the Industrial Revolution, and thereby to the birth of modern capitalism. For 75 years
A Review of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and The Rise of Austerity Politics by Kim Phillips-Fein Michelle Esther O’Brien Department of Sociology, New York University michelleobrien@nyu.edu Abstract This article reviews the Marxist literature on the New York City fiscal crisis of 1975, putting into context the recent narrative history Fear City: New York’s
A Review of Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex by Nick Dyer-Witheford, andMarx in the Age of Digital Capitalism, edited by Christian Fuchs and Vincent Mosco Jamie Woodcock Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford jamie.woodcock@googlemail.com Abstract The two books, Cyber-Proletariat by Nick Dyer-Witheford andMarx in the Age of Digital Capitalism, edited by Christian Fuchs
A Review of Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today: The Biopolitics of the Multitude versus the Hegemony of the People, edited by Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Giorgos Katsambekis Panagiotis Sotiris Independent Researcher panagiotis.sotiris@gmail.com Abstract Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today, edited by Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Giorgos Katsambekis, is an important volume bringing together contributions that offer
