Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism: A General Theory
Neil Maclean | May 5, 2026
What is the inner connection between the form of law and the commodity form to produce a commodity-form theory of law?
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Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence
Christian Caiconte | January 27, 2026
From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and violence?
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Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital
Laisrian Flynn | June 3, 2025
Just as Mario Tronti wanted to engage with Marx in his own time, how do we approach Operai e capitale (Workers and Capital) on the basis of capitalism today? The latest deep-dive from the Past & Present Reading Group gives some pathways.
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Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina
Flávia Soares Julius | November 5, 2024
How are the works of Ruy Marini, Vania Bambirra and Theotônio dos Santos brought together by Felipe Antunes de Oliveira in Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina to offer a non-Eurocentric theory of “uneven and combined dependency”?
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Karl Marx, Grundrisse
Chris Hesketh | September 10, 2024
To mark PPE@10 this post continues a series of posts to celebrate ten years of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) as a blog that has addressed the worldliness of critical political economy issues since 2014.
From the beginning of February to the end of July this year the Past & [...]
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Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty
Pranita Shrestha | November 21, 2023
Aileen Moreton-Robinson in her book The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty presents a collection of essays on race, dispossession and sovereignty. She argues that ‘the thread that weaves the chapter(s) together is the intersubstantive relations between white [...]
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Amy C. Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
David Avilés Espinoza | August 22, 2023
Almost nine years after reading Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto's Dependencia y Desarrollo en America Latina, the Past & Present Reading Group has come back to visit the history of Latin American political economy. In this journey, I have the pleasure of being the Latin American [...]
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Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism
Adam David Morton | April 26, 2023
In what is an important reflection on the political stakes for wider Marxist Feminist theory, Cinzia Arruzza has counselled against the fashionable conflation of racial and patriarchy oppressions within capitalism. Asserting the intersectionality of race, gender, and class is simply not enough [...]
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