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 2026, our next text which is:

Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part I (Progress Publishers, 1975).

We have just finished our 35th book in the group, which is Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism: A General Theory (Pluto Press, 1987). A commentary on that book and all the preceding texts read by the group have been made available, below. Following on from that, the P&P Reading Group will commence Marx’s Theories of Surplus Value – the fourth volume of Capital – on Zoom, next month. The group convenor Adam Morton can be contacted for further details on joining the group, subject to limited available numbers. As with all the volumes we read, please click on the book titles below for more details:

35. Neil Maclean on Evgeny Pashukanis, Law and Marxism: A General Theory

34. Christian Caiconte on Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History

33. Laisrian Flynn on Mario Tronti, Workers and Capital

32. Flávia Soares Julius on Felipe Antunes de Oliveira, Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina: A Critique of Market and State Utopias

31. Chris Hesketh on Karl Marx, Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

30. Pranita Shrestha on Aileen Moreton-Robinson, The White Possessive: Property, Power and Indigenous Sovereignty

29. David Avilés Espinoza on Amy C. Offner, Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas

28. 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

27. Elna Tulus on William I. Robinson, Can Global Capitalism Endure?

26. Madelaine Moore on Michael Lebowitz, Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class

25. Brett Heino on Alex Callinicos, Making History: Agency, Structure, and Change in Social Theory

24. Ksenia Arapko on Jairus Banaji, A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism

23. Christian Caiconte on Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Intellectual and Manual Labour: A Critique of Epistemology

22. David Avilés Espinoza on Milton Santos, The Nature of Space

21. Anna Sturman on Kohei Saito, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy

20. Arianna Introna on Martha E. Giménez, Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Marxist-Feminist Essays

19. Madelaine Moore on Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics

18. Austin Smidt on Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

17. Janet Burstall on Moishe Postone, Time, Labor and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx’s Critical Theory

16. Llewellyn Williams-Brooks on Raewyn Connell and Terry Irving, Class Structure in Australian History

15. Riki Scanlan on Jennifer Robinson, Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development

14. Frank Stilwell on Doreen Massey, Spatial Divisions of Labour: Social Structures and the Geography of Production

13. Sirma Altun on Henri Lefebvre, The Production of Space

12. Oliver Mispelhorn on J.K. Gibson-Graham et al., Take Back the Economy: An Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities

11. Natasha Heenan on Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

10. Mark Kelly on Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition

9. Gareth Bryant on Jason W. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital

8. Joe Collins on Suzanne de Brunhoff, Marx on Money

7. Gareth Bryant on Susanne Soederberg, Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry: Money, Discipline and the Surplus Population

6. Luis F. Angosto-Ferrández on Nicos Poulantzas, State, Power, Socialism

5. Martijn Konings on Samuel Knafo, The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard

4. Bill Dunn on Charles Post, The American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class Structure, Economic Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877

3. Adam David Morton on Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America

2. Claire Parfitt on Costas Lapavitsas, Profiting Without Producing: How Finance Exploits Us All and

1. 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.