George Souvlis interviewed Sara Farris, a longstanding contributor and member of the Historical Materialism editorial board, and of itsMarxist Feminist stream. Sara Farris is Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, University of London and the author of In the Name of Women’s Rights. The Rise of Femonationalism (2017, Duke University Press), as well as many journal articles on Marxism, political theory,
Already published in “Materialismo Storico. Rivista di filosofia, storia e scienze umane”, Nr. 1/2017, L’egemonia dopo Gramsci: una riconsiderazione, edited by Fabio Frosini, pp. 115-163, licence Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0. The journal is available online here. Althusser and Poulantzas: Hegemony and the State Panagiotis Sotiris The aim of this paper is to examine Althusser’s
Anti-imperialism has a history that has been in large part repressed, if not buried, amongst many currents of criticial thought and much of the radical Left. The struggles for decolonisation after the Second World War are, of course, remembered, but, too often, it is forgotten that the international communist movement created anti-colonial and anti-imperialist organisations
For those interested in engaging with the history of the Russian Revolution in the hope of more effectively challenging capitalism, a tension between the universal and the particular looms large. The difficulty that inevitably arises is how to disentangle what was historically specific about Russia 1917 and Bolshevism from what might reflect a more generalised
Mario Kessler This text first appeared in a supplemental issue of Sozialismusdedicated to Theodor Bergmann, and was translated for Historical Materialism by Loren Balhorn The older he grew, the harder it was to believe that death would ever catch up with him. Theodor ‘Theo’ Bergmann, an accomplished agronomist and historian of the German labour
This piece was originally written for the special issue 150 of the Spanish journal Viento Sur, “1917-2017 Rethinking Revolution” dedicated to political strategy and anti-capitalist alternatives. Josep Maria Antentas teaches Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He has published in English and Spanish several articles on the Spanish regime crisis, 15M movement,
Phil Hedges on Linebaugh’s May Day Essays and the UCL rent strikes Phil Hedges is a trade union organiser and an alumnus of the International Labour and Trade Union Studies Masters (MA ILTUS) at Ruskin College, Oxford. This essay is dedicated to the 2014-16 MA ILTUS cohort. In March 2016, the Marxist historian Peter
by Jim Kincaid This piece was originally published at https://readingsofcapital.com/. In the eco-socialist movement there have been frequent complaints that Marx’s value theory, with its central emphasis on labour-time, is fatally flawed and irrelevant. It seems to discount the exploitation of nature in the pursuit of profit. Students of Marx have responded by tracing the close
Daniel Hartley interviews Richard Seymour, author, journalist, online editor forSalvage, and member of Historical Materialism‘s Corresponding Editorial Board. The interview was first published in French on 3 May 2017 inPeriode. Often, when intellectuals are interviewed – I am thinking especially of the recent series of interviews carried out by George Souvlis (e.g., Davis 2016;
Michael Roberts is a private researcher who has worked as an economist in the City of London for over 30 years. He is the author of The Great Recession – a Marxist View (2009, Lulu Press) and The Long Depression (2016, Haymarket Publications). He has presented papers to the American Economics Association annual conferences, Historical Materialism conferences and to those
In conversation with Christoph Jünke, on the legacy of German Marxist theorist Leo Kofler and why we need a Marxist understanding of anthropology today. At the beginning of the 1980s, leftists, socialists, and Marxists still talked quite a bit about “humanity” (den Menschen) as such, while authors like Erich Fromm with his humanism were very
Revolutions Against Capital, Capital Against Revolutions? Central London, 9-12 November 2017 http://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/ ***EXTENDED Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2017. Participants from previous conferences will need to create a new login for this year’s conference website. *** ***UPDATE: The streams are now listed at the end of this post.*** One hundred years ago, hailing the Russian Revolution, Antonio
