Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis and starting in June, our next text which is:

Heidi Gerstenberger, Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History. Haymarket, 2023.

We are just finishing our 33rd book book in the group, which is Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital (Verso, 2019) and a commentary on that book will be available soon.

Following on from that, the P&P Reading Group will commence Gerstenberger’s Market and Violence on Thursday 12 June @5:00pm (AEST) on Zoom and each Thursday week thereafter at the same time. The group convenor Adam Morton can be contacted for further details on the Zoom link, subject to limited available numbers.

As with all the volumes we read, please click on the book titles below for more details:

Flávia Soares Julius on Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina: A Critique of Market and State Utopias
Chris Hesketh on Karl Marx, Grundrisse
Pranita Shrestha on Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty
David Avilés Espinoza on Amy C. Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
Adam David Morton on Nancy Fraser, Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care and the Planet―and What We Can Do about It
Elna Tulus on William I. Robinson, Can Global Capitalism Endure?
Madelaine Moore on Michael Lebowitz, Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class
Brett Heino on Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory
Ksenia Arapko, on Jairus Banaji, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism
Christian Caiconte on Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology
David Avilés Espinoza on Milton Santos, The Nature of Space
Anna Sturman on Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy
Arianna Introna on Martha E. Giménez, Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist Feminist Essays
Madelaine Moore on Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics;
Austin Hayden on Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition;
Janet Burstall on Moishe Postone, Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory;
Llewellyn Williams-Brooks on Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History;
Riki Scanlan on Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development;
Frank Stilwell on Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production;
Sirma Altun on Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space;
Oliver Mispelhorn on J.K. Gibson-Graham et al., Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities;
Natasha Heenan on Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation;
Mark Kelly on Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition;
Gareth Bryant on Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital;
Joe Collins on Suzanne de Brunhoff, Marx on Money;
Gareth Bryant on Susanne Soederberg, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population;
Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández on Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism;
Martijn Konings on Samuel Knafo, The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard;
Bill Dunn on Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877;
Adam David Morton on Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America;
Claire Parfitt on Costas Lapavitsas, Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All; and
Adam David Morton on Peter Thomas, The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism.

Author: Adam David Morton

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007); Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG); and co-author of Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (2018) with Andreas Bieler. The volume Henri Lefebvre, On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography was published in 2022 with University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Stuart Elden.