Alberto Toscano on Fascism This paper was first delivered as a seminar in February 2017 at Simon Fraser University. The author thanks Clint Burnham for the comradely hospitality and the participants for their critical engagement. A Greek translation can be found here. Alberto Toscano is Reader in Critical Theory and co-director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of
A review of Alex Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015) For an alternative review, see our previous post by Jairus Banaji. Watch out for the symposium on the book forthcoming in theHistorical Materialism journal. Spencer Dimmock is a historian of late medieval and early modern England working in the
Contrary to Leon Trotsky’s influential account, Bolsheviks in March 1917 opposed the Provisional Government and called for a revolutionary soviet regime. Eric Blanc is an independent researcher in Oakland, California. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph, Anti-Colonial Marxism: Oppression & Revolution in the Tsarist Borderlands (Brill Publishers, Historical Materialism Book Series). Photo Caption: Lev Kamenev reading Pravda
Sara R Farris on Elena Ferrante. Main photo: Six Shirtwaist Strike women in 1909, USA. Mary Dreier, Ida Rauh, Helen Marot, Rena Borky, Yetta Raff, and Mary Effers Sara R. Farris is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She works on sociological and political theory, ‘race’/racism and feminism, migration and gender, with a particular focus
Thomas Weiss on Stephan Krüger Thomas Weiss works since 1991 as an economist with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in Berlin, Germany. His research interests are empirical studies with a background of Marxian economics, for example, about the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. Abstract This article presents selected aspects of
Kevin Murphy reviews Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas Twiss Dr. Kevin Murphy teaches Russian history at the University of Massachusetts Boston. His book Revolution and Counterrevolution won the 2005 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize. His current research is on the Petrograd Soviet of 1917. Academia has never been very kind to Leon Trotsky.
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution’s victory, Eric Blanc starts off our series of historical articles. Eric Blanc is an independent researcher in Oakland, California. He is the author of the forthcoming monograph, Anti-Colonial Marxism: Oppression & Revolution in the Tsarist Borderlands (Brill Publishers, Historical Materialism Book Series). Main photo caption: Petrograd protesters in early 1917 Introduction Assessing Bolshevik
Karl Liebknecht in 1907. A timely archive. Courtesy of Daniel Gaido originally published here. Karl Liebknecht’s Speech at the SPD party congress held at Essen in September 1907 “The resolution of the Congress of Stuttgart also determines our position on the question of deportation. That is emphasized here. It contains, under point 3 of the minimum
Jairus Banaji discusses fascism and its three best thinkers of the left, Rosenberg, Reich, and Sartre. This text is the transcript of a lecture given to the students and teachers of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, on 11th March 2016 as part of the JNU Nationalism Lectures series. Jairus Banaji is Research Professor in the Department of Development
Arthur Duhé replies to Frédéric Lordon at London HM 2016 on Spinoza, Marx and indignation. Arthur Duhé is a D.Phil Candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford. His PhD thesis on Spinoza’s theory of international relations both aims to understand Spinoza in his own historical context and to link his philosophy to our contemporary issues. This talk was
In memory of Mark Fisher (1968-2017), we republish from his blog k-punk the following text he presented at the 2009 London Historical Materialism Conference and posted on 29 November 2009. Mark Fisher contributed in many ways to the journal. His groundbreaking work will continue to influence us, as editors and contributors to developing Marxism worldwide and across various disciplines
Prof. Costas Lapavitsas and Dr. Geoffrey Ingham discuss ‘Thinking about Money’ on 18 January 2017 at the SOAS, London. https://soundcloud.com/soaseconomics/thinking-about-money-part-i The recording is part of the symposium and launch of Marxist Monetary Theory,a collection of papers by Costas Lapavitsas part of the HM book series published by Brill. Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Costas Lapavitsas
