Call for papers Capitalism has been able to attenuate but not resolve the contradictions of capital, doing so by occupying and producing space, extending urbanism, programming consumption, expanding the frontiers of primitive accumulation, and sustaining the reproduction of the relations of production. This is not an inexorable process; nor are its participant-witnesses ignorant of the
The international forum The Great Transition took place from May, 17th to May, 20th 2018 in Montreal. The event was financed by Historical Materialism, the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), and a variety of unions and academic units. The event was an immense success, with over 300
A version of this interview appeared in French at http://revueperiode.net/la-valeur-de-lart-entretien-avec-dave-beech/ 1°) What is the current state of debates around the issues of a marxist approach of artistic production ? Are there different or dominant intellectual currents that can be identified ? On what aspects relate the most important disagreements ? Marxism has an excellent record of engaging seriously with
A version of this interview appeared in French at http://revueperiode.net/le-role-de-la-prison-dans-la-lutte-des-classes-entretien-avec-ruth-w-gilmore/ Clément Petitjean: In Golden Gulag, you analyse the build-up of California’s prison system, which you call “the biggest in the history of the world”. Between 1980 and 2007, you explain that the number of people behind bars increased more than 450%. What were the various factors that
Chris Rumble reviews Marx Returns by Jason Barker (2018, Zero Books). Following several disappointing portrayals, a new novel by the author and filmmaker takes an ingenious look at why Karl Marx might have been right after all. Why have recent dramatic portrayals of Karl Marx been so underwhelming? This spring saw the release of
Rationality, Islam, and Decolonisation with Maxime Rodinson By Selim Nadi. Translated by Joe Hayns. This piece was originally published in Revue Période: http://revueperiode.net/le-savant-et-le-militant-rationalite-islam-et-decolonisation-chez-maxime-rodinson/ Selim Nadi is a French PhD Student and a member of the editorial board of the French journals Période andContretemps. Joe Hayns would like to thank Ian Birchall, Selim Nadi, and Maïa Pal
Today we are launching on our website a whole new special issue on Identity Politics which will appear in print later this year in volume 26:2 of the journal. Big thanks to HM editors Ashok Kumar and Dalia Gebrial, and guest editors Adam Elliott-Cooper and Shruti Iyer for their very hard work putting this issue together. Thanks also to all
The deadline for abstracts has been extended a final time, to midnight GMT on 13 June 2018 ***PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER EXTENSIONS*** Main conference details page: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/fifteenth-annual-confe… Organised in collaboration with the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Committee and Socialist Register. The HM conference is not a conventional academic conference but rather a space
This text is based on Heide Gerstenberger (2017) Markt und Gewalt. Die Funktionsweise des historischen Kapitalismus (Westfälisches Dampfboot) Münster. An English translation will appear published by Brill asMarket and Violence. Marx’s analysis of the basic structures of capitalism explains why, once established by ‘blood and dirt’, the capital relation can be reproduced in social forms which appear to confirm
A French version of this interview was originally published in Période:http://revueperiode.net/red-black-a-haiti-entretien-avec-matthew-j-smith/ In the Introduction to your book Red & Black in Haiti. Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934–1957 (UNC Press, 2009), you write — citing Sténio Vincent — that the year 1934 marked a second independence for Haiti. Could you explain this point? How did
A version of this article was originally published at https://kritisch-lesen.de/interview/solidaritat-ist-das-ergebnis-politischer-arbeit The topic of our issue is Marx’s 200th birthday. On a most general level and after 150 years since the first volume of Capital was first published: Why should one still read Marx today? Marx’s writing remains the most formidable effort to weld the drive to
In this article Alberto Toscano considers three texts that allow us to explore the place that a recovery and reinterpretation of Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’ played in setting the agenda of European Marxist philosophy after the crisis of ’56. Introduction: An ‘Eastern’ Materialism? By way of contrast to the texts I’ll be considering
