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Volume 27 Issue 2, 2019

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Editorial Perspective: Is a ‘Left Populism’ Possible? Panagiotis Sotiris

Research Article: Marx’s Social Republic: Political not Metaphysical William Clare Roberts

Roundtable: The Long Brazilian Crisis: A Forum Juan Grigera, Jeffery R. Webber, Ludmila Abilio, Ricardo Antunes, Marcelo Badaró Mattos, Sabrina Fernandes, Rodrigo Nunes, Leda Paulani and Sean Purdy

Research Article: In Defence of Speculative Materialism Cat Moir

Research Article: Against Hybridism: Why We Need to Distinguish between Nature and Society, Now More than Ever Andreas Malm

Research Article: What Marxist Tax Policies Actually Look Like David Ireland

Research Article: Marx, the Irish Immigrant-Workers, and the English Labour Movement Martin Deleixhe

Research Article: From the Demise of Social Democracy to the ‘End of Capitalism’  The Intellectual Trajectory of Wolfgang Streeck Jerome Roos

Intervention: Last Philosophy: the Metaphysics of Capital from Sohn-Rethel to Žižek Alberto Toscano

Introduction to Archive Piece: Introduction to Henryk Grossman’s ‘A New Theory of Imperialism and the Social Revolution’  Rick Kuhn

Archive Piece: A New Theory of Imperialism and the Social Revolution (First Three Parts of Four) Henryk Grossman

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Historical Materialism is a Marxist journal, appearing 4 times a year, based in London. Founded in 1997 it asserts that, not withstanding the variety of its practical and theoretical articulations, Marxism constitutes the most fertile conceptual framework for analysing social phenomena, with an eye to their overhaul. In our selection of material we do not favour any one tendency, tradition or variant. Marx demanded the 'Merciless criticism of everything that exists': for us that includes Marxism itself.

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