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Review of Terrell Carver, Engels Before Marx (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Friedrich Engels, born 200 years ago on November 28, 1820, has been termed the ‘first Marxist’ in some commentaries and histories from the nineteenth century on, and with good reason, but despite this, Engels’ early works (...)
Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work, Volume I: 1818-1841. By Michael Heinrich. Translated by Alexander Locascio. Monthly Review Press, 2019, 390 pages, $34 cloth.
THE FIRST VOLUME of Michael Heinrich’s biography of Karl Marx, if any (...)
At the bicentenary of his birth, Frederick Engels’s reputation as an original thinker is, among Anglophone academics at least, at its nadir. The main reason for this unfortunate state of affairs is undoubtedly political. Despite the recent global economic crisis and associated increases in (...)
The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that are often surprisingly divorced from Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism, (...)
Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism Capitalism, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy By Kohei Saito New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017, 308 pages, $29 paperback.
MAINSTREAM ECOLOGISTS OFTEN dismiss Karl Marx as “productivist” and blind to ecological problems. A growing body of (...)
Does Karl Marx have any relevance for today’s struggles for women’s liberation? Do his theories of society and revolutionary transformation present us with tools that in any way continue to be useful?
These and related questions come up repeatedly — as I will argue — for two very different (...)
Through his relationship with the Chartist radical and labor poet Ernest Jones, Karl Marx came to realize the necessity of opposing slavery and colonialism in ending capitalism.
In his film The Young Karl Marx, director Raoul Peck features a scene where an anonymous Frenchman of African (...)
This is an edited excerpt from Sven Eric Liedman’s A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx - currently 50% off as part of our [Verso Books] end-of-year sale.
“It is impossible to read the introductory, stylistically razor-sharp and rhetorically perfect first pages of the Communist (...)
Author’s last version of my response to a symposium in Dialectical Anthropology (published online spring 2015) on Marx at the Margins: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies. The symposium featured these essays: Aijaz Ahmad (India), “Karl Marx, Global Theorist,” David Norman Smith (...)
One objection to Marxism is that it originated two centuries ago in Europe—so what could it have to say to the world’s oppressed today? Lance Selfa has an answer.
MANY ACTIVISTS today first encounter Marxist ideas in and around college campuses, where certain interpretations of Karl Marx and (...)
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital. By Michael Heinrich (translated by Alexander Locascio). New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012, 240 pages, $15.95 paper.
THE GLOBAL REDISCOVERY of Marx’s economic writings in the past five years should come as no surprise. The financial (...)
Presentation at the Historical Materialism Conference London, November 10, 2012. For the first time in history, humanity has to conceive our emancipation under a global ecological constraint, unsurpassable by an increase in labor productivity.
Global warming exemplifies this constraint. In (...)
Paul Mason is one of the best journalists covering the global economy today. His book Live Working, Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global is an essential resource for anyone concerned about the workers’ struggle against oppression and for liberation in the past, present and future. I (...)
Marx’s dialectic of race and class is related to that of Frantz Fanon and to the Civil War in the U.S., which unleashed many revolutionary possibilities – Editors. As the U.S. marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War this year, some attention has been given to African-American resistance to (...)
Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies By: Kevin B. Anderson Chicago, The Chicago University Press, 2010, 319 pages, $66 (hard cover); $22.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Michael Löwy. This truly path-breaking book goes against the grain of the conventional wisdom (...)
Despite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where “individuals are directed by abstractions,” (Marx), where impersonal relations and objects [Versachlicht] (...)
Karl Marx, Kevin Anderson and Eric Plaut (editors), and Gabrielle Edgcomb (translator), Karl Marx on Suicide (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999), 147 pages, $49.95 hardcover and $14.95 paper.
« Peuchet : vom Selbstmord » (Gesellschaftspiegel, zweiter Band, Heft VII, (...)
Karl Marx, Kevin Anderson and Eric Plaut (editors), and Gabrielle Edgcomb (translator), Karl Marx on Suicide (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 1999), 147 pages, $49.95 hardcover and $14.95 paper.
Michael Löwy is co-author, with Robert Sayre, of Romanticism against the Tide of (...)
“In these crises there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity—the epidemic of overproduction. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of (...)
THE EXPERIENCE OF reading the Communist Manifesto is to Marxists what the experience of watching “Casablanca” is for movie buffs. Let us call it the surprise of the familiar.
The pulse quickens upon coming across long-familiar lines with the realization that here, right here, is where a certain (...)
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