It was through the method of rational abstractions that Marx sought to delineate the formal structures of the capitalist mode of production, which informs his major aim in Capital. Except the section on primitive accumulation, his analytical object was ‘a pure [...]
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In How the West Came to Rule, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu aim ‘to subvert, and [they] hope displace, the dominant wisdom’ of analyses that focus on the historical origins of capitalist development. Stating that the dominant wisdom is so far ‘an unmistakably Eurocentric history’ [...]
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In How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism myself and Alexander Anievas tackle a foundational myth of Eurocentrism – that capitalism was the invention of a uniquely European history and culture. In Eurocentric narratives, non-Western societies have been side-lined [...]
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On Tuesday, 7 June 2016, the Marxism Reading Group of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relation at the University of Nottingham/UK celebrated its tenth anniversary. To mark the event we hosted [...]
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Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Marxism Reading Group at Nottingham
This semester, the Marxism Reading Group of the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham will celebrate [...]
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As we become political subjects on our own behalf, recognise ourselves in each other and see the connections between our different movements, we come closer to being able not only to articulate the hope of “another world”, but also to bring it about.
With these words, Laurence Cox and [...]
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Karl Marx did not only involve himself in abstract conceptual work on how to understand the capitalist social relations of production. He was also an engaged analyst of class struggles at his time. This included three separate writings on developments in France: The Class Struggles in [...]
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The notion of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ is widely vilified. Often linked to Stalin’s authoritarian rule in the Soviet Union, there is little positive said about it. Moreover, the negative evaluation is also regularly linked back to Lenin and his idea of a vanguard party taking [...]
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