George Comninel, ‘Alienation and Emancipation in the Work of Karl Marx’

Berkay Koçak | June 10, 2021

Introduction

The revival of Marx and Marxism emerged as one of the inevitable consequences of the critical questioning of capitalism with the long-term effects of the Global Crisis by 2007-8. Seeking to carry ‘the renaissance of Marx and Marxism’ forward, Palgrave-Macmillan’s Series [...]

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The Global South has lost $152 trillion through unequal exchange since 1960

Dylan Sullivan | June 8, 2021

Dependency and world-systems theorists have long argued that “unequal exchange” is a key driver of global inequality. Since wages and natural resource prices are much lower in the global South than the North, poor countries must export many more units of embodied labour and resources than [...]

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Labour Conflicts in the Global South: a new special issue in Globalizations

Andreas Bieler | Jörg Nowak | May 25, 2021

Against the background of the global economic crisis since 2007-8 and increasing inequality across the world, we have experienced widespread, large-scale industrial action throughout the Global South, including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had been hailed [...]

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You’ve been comparing, over and over, don’t you know?

Ian Bruff | May 12, 2021

This is the second of two posts on how we are forever enmeshed in relationships, in all aspects of our lives, that continually (re)shape, (re)produce, and (re)envision how we practise our craft. The first discussed the important role played by my students across the 2010s in educating me [...]

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Gaining the motion to move to new generational beats

Ian Bruff | May 10, 2021

This post, and the future post that will soon be published here on Progress in Political Economy, are about how we, as individuals or as specific groups of co-authors, are those whose names are on the articles, chapters, reports and books that are part and parcel of academic work. Yet, while [...]

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When Does the Fightback Begin?

Andreas Malm | May 6, 2021

When writing interventions on contemporary events, one’s best hope is that comrades of all stripes will engage with them closely and critically. I have recently written two –Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century and How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning [...]

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