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.
Hegemony, People, Multitude: Contemporary Movements and Radical Theory
A Review of Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today: The Biopolitics of the Multitude versus the Hegemony of the People, edited by Alexandros Kioupkiolis and Giorgos Katsambekis
Two Revolutions, One International Legal Order
A Review of Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman
Everyday Life in the Paris Commune
A Review of Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
The Humanisation of Nature and the Naturalisation of Marxism
A Review of The Concept of Nature in Marx by Alfred Schmidt,Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective by Paul Burkett,Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam-Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm, andLiving Factories: Biotechnology and the Unique Nature of Capitalism by Kenneth Fish
Karl Marx’s Mathematical Return
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.
Art and Value, reviewed by Nizan Shaked
Dave Beech, Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (Boston: Brill, 2015)
The Long Depression
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 of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) and the Association of Heterodox Economists (AHE). He writes a blog on Marxist economics at thenextrecession.wordpress.com.
The Eastern Origins of Capitalism?
A review of Alex Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015)
There is No True Life, If Not in the False One: On Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels
Sara R Farris on Elena Ferrante.
Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
Kevin Murphy reviews Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy by Thomas Twiss
Financial Claims on the World Economy
Tony Norfield reviews François Chesnais’s Finance Capital Today: Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump, Brill, Leiden, 2016.
