Book Reviews
While our journal no longer carries a reviews section, and shorter reviews are now featured on our website, Historical Materialism welcomes articles addressing key contemporary interventions in critical Marxist theory or literature reviews that seek to provide critical surveys of contemporary debates. The word length and criteria for these articles, including the peer-review process, are the same as for other submissions to the journal.
If you are interested in writing articles that critically address recent volumes in critical Marxist theory or critical literature reviews please contact the editorial board in advance with information about the volume(s) under consideration and a short abstract (250 words) outlining your argument.
If you are interested in submitting a shorter review, about a recent Marxist publication to the website, please send us your submission directly to website@historicalmaterialism.org.
Real Abstraction and the Real Break between Marx and Hegel
A Review of Un parricidio compiuto by Roberto Finelli
Losurdo’s ‘Stalin’: the debate between Jean-Jacques Marie and Domenico Losurdo
‘Gulag socialism’ writes Jean-Jacques Marie. ‘Primitive thinking’ replies Domenico Losurdo. We publish here a review by Jean-Jacques Marie (contributor to La Quinzaine littéraire and head of the Centre d’études et de recherche sur les mouvements trotskistes et révolutionnaires internationaux) of Domenico Losurdo’s book Staline, histoire et critique d’une légende noire, along with Losurdo’s response.
A Jewish Communist’s Unclaimed Legacy
A Review of A Jewish Communist in Weimar Germany: The Life of Werner Scholem (1895–1940) by Ralf Hoffrogge
A Review of Antitézis. Válogatott tanulmányok 2001–2020 [Antithesis: Selected Writings]
Mark Losoncz
Marxism, Strategy and the Art of War
A Review of Estrategia Socialista y Arte Militar [Socialist Strategy and the Art of War] by Emilio Albamonte and Matías Maiello
The Pasts and Futures of Social Reproduction as Dual Terrains Struggle
A Review of Women and Work by Susan Ferguson
Absolute Sex and the Problems of Political Economy
A Review of Sex and the Failed Absolute by Slavoj Žižek
A Failed Attempt at Myth-Busting
A Review of The Myth of Mao Zedong and Modern Insurgency by Francis Grice
Trajectories of Fascism
A Review of La possibilité du fascisme. France, la trajectoire du désastre by Ugo Palheta
