One of the grand traditions of the Past & Present Reading Group is “the pitch.” As we near the end of our current text, those who have engaged with it are given the opportunity to nominate the next book that the group will tackle. At risk of doing an injustice to any selfless members of the [...]
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An extremely lively and promising pluri-disciplinary research agenda has coalesced around the rubric state capitalism, demonstrating its potential for focusing scholarly efforts on an important set of transformations in the morphology of present-day capitalism, and particularly on the changing [...]
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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 variations of the question ‘What is the point of International Relations?’ have been asked by so many scholars over the years that there is now a veritable literature dedicated to analysing the discipline’s unending existential angst. In a snapshot of the debates on IR’s raison d’être, [...]
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For the last book of 2020, the Past & Present Reading Group tackled Georg Lukács’ classic, History and Class Consciousness. There was a general sense that although the text remains a critical work for the development of a theory of praxis and for historical materialism more broadly, as [...]
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Please join us for the keynote addresses at the Historical Materialism Sydney 2018 conference. All parts of the conference are free and open to all.
Full conference details, including venue, timetable and registration are here.
Lisa AdkinsSocial Reproduction in the Neoliberal [...]
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Robert W. Cox was born in Montreal Canada in 1926. Following a Master’s degree in history from McGill University, he worked in the International Labor Organisation (ILO) for over 20 years. Cox then turned to academia and taught at Columbia University, New York, before taking up a [...]
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Historical Materialism Sydney | Contesting the Survival of Capitalism | University of Sydney | 13-14 December 2018 Call for papers
Capitalism has been able to attenuate but not resolve the contradictions of capital, doing so by occupying and producing space, extending urbanism, programming [...]
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