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This hearder includes articles reflecting on Marxism (and its diversity), as well as elements of discussion between (more or less) Marxists and non-Marxists. For “Marxism and...”, see also the sections “Ecology”, “Patriarcat”, “Internationalism”, etc.
Upon G. M. Tamás’s death last month, even many laudatory obituaries claimed that he marked the endpoint of Hungary’s Marxist traditions. But Marxism isn’t dead in Hungary.
Gáspár Miklós Tamás was, without a doubt, one of the most diverse and creative thinkers in the former Eastern bloc. A (...)
After losing a coveted niche in the trucking industry, I started UCLA as an adult freshman, attracted by rumors of a high-powered seminar on Capital led by Bob Brenner in the History Department.
Verso is extremely sad to announce the death of our friend and comrade Mike Davis (1946-2022), (...)
Ian Parker describes the stakes of the difference between an approach that is just a malignant mirror of capitalism and an approach that is for free association as the core of communist politics.
This little book [[https://resistancebooks.org/product/stalinist-realism-and-open-communism] is (...)
Critics of Marx have accused him of imposing a European model of historical development on the rest of the world. But the real Marx rejected Eurocentric thinking and developed a sophisticated view of world history in all its diversity and complexity.
Despite a revival of interest in his (...)
In 1991, a documentary crew witnessed the dissolution of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
The End of the Party shows us three demographics. The young(er) Eurocommunists of the Party leadership have the chic graphics and the hard truths; confidently they berate an ageing audience to (...)
Mao Zedong’s writings on insurgent war have had an international impact. In the book under review, Grice attempts to show that these writings not only lacked originality but that their influence has also been strongly exaggerated. Grice seeks to disprove ‘the myth of Mao Zedong’ as an original and (...)
In November 2020, socialists around the world celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Friedrich Engels. It is a mistake, often repeated, to regard Engels as a simple populariser of Marx’s ideas.
Not only did he contribute with Marx in 1844-48 to the formation of a new worldview - the (...)
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 (...)
On the anniversary of his communist father Mazhar Ali Khan’s death, 27 years ago, an extraordinary writer and activist speaks on what makes communism resonate to this day.
On a cold rainy afternoon on January 28, I made my way to the house where the renowned writer and activist Tariq Ali was (...)
Lal Khan n’a pas besoin d’être présenté dans les milieux politiques révolutionnaires, non seulement du Pakistan, mais du monde entier. Il a connu son dernier souffle aujourd’hui, le 21 février à 19h00, à Lahore.
Depuis un an et demi, il combattait le cancer. Lal Khan avait 64 ans. Il a été l’un des (...)
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, (...)
Mukoma wa Ngugi’s opening remarks at the launch (today) of the 2020 Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival in The Hague.
In January of 2019, I traveled to Ghana to visit slave castles and forts for the book I am currently writing on the relationship between Africans and Black (...)
Ten aspects of Marxism are highlighted in this paper by Ian Parker on what we could or should expect socialism to look like.
Paper presented ’The 46th Discipline Forum of the National College of Marxist Theory Discipline’ (Guangxi University for Nationalities)- ‘New Development of Socialism in (...)
Prominent writers in postcolonial theory have considerable influence in progressive circles within academia. They address issues of colonialism, racism, and differences in culture and politics between the former colonies and the former colonisers. They have devised new frameworks and categories (...)
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 (...)
José Carlos Mariátegui was Latin America’s most original Marxist. And his work is strikingly relevant for confronting the continent’s right-wing backlash today.
Latin America’s first, most original Marxist thinker was born on June 14, 1894, in Peru’s southern department of Moquegua. José Carlos (...)
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