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Paul LeBlanc responds to Eric Blanc Paul LeBlanc has recently published October Song: Bolshevik Triumph, Communist Tragedy 1917-1924.This post was first published on 21 October 2017 on John Riddell’s blog. For a collection of articles on the Russian Revolution seeThe Bolsheviks in 1917: Index to a Debate A valuable contribution to scholarship on Lenin, the Bolsheviks,

HM at 20 and 16 For the journal’s 20th anniversary, we repost here extracts of interviews with Esther Leslie for HM in 2017 and with Peter Thomas for Jacobin in 2004, both conducted by George Souvlis. HM London 2017: Revolutions Against Capital, Capital Against Revolutions? 9-12 November at the SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Main building, Russell Square (more details below). *** ONLINE REGISTRATION

Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne   This essay is taken from the forthcoming anthology Considering Class, Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century, (eds) Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne, Brill, Leiden/Boston, 2018. Introduction This essay explores the social and political role and significance of the intellectuals within capitalist society. It sets out to

Eric Blanc   Eric Blanc is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph, Anti-Colonial Marxism: Oppression & Revolution in the Tsarist Borderlands (Brill Publishers, Historical Materialism Book Series), and has published a series of articles this year for us on the Russian Revolution. Seehere

Michael Bray   Michael Bray is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern University. His article, “Rearticulating Contemporary Populism: Class, State, and Neoliberal Society” appeared in Historical Materialism 23:3 (2015). His monograph, Powers of the Mind: Mental and Manual Labor in the Political Crisis, is forthcoming from transcript in Fall 2018. He is also working on

 Michael Vester (Extracts translated from Die Entstehung des Proletariat als Lernprozess. DieEntstehung antikapitalistischer Theorie und Praxisin England 1792–l848, third edn., Frankfurt 1975) Translated by Jairus Banaji The following is a translation of parts of Michael Vester’s classic work The Emergence of the Working Class as a Learning Process, which was first published in Germany in 1970.* 

Facundo C Rocca analyses the labour contract and the juridical form from the young to the mature Marx, en passant parFoucault and Agamben. Facundo is a PhD. Student in Philosophy at the University of San Martin and Paris 8, and a PhD Fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET). This paper was presented at the

The Intelligentsia and the October Revolution David Mandel This is a revised and somewhat expanded version of an article that first appeared in Critique, no. 14, 1981, pp. 68-87. Much of it is based on research published in my The Petrograd Workers and the Fall of the Old Regime and The Petrograd Workers and the

  Sara Salem recently joined the Historical Materialism editorial board and is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick in the UK. Sara’s research looks at questions of political economy, feminist and gender studies, postcolonialism, history, and Marxism in the particular context of the Middle East. She has recently published journal articles