The publication of Georg Lukács’ History and Class Consciousness in 1923 created a rift in the international Marxist movement unlike any other. The book challenged key tenets of an emerging Soviet orthodoxy, including the moratorium on ‘bourgeois philosophy’, the dogma of party [...]
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Marxist analysis of law is perhaps one of the most fascinating and protean contributions to legal theory. The volatility of Marx’s analyses emerges from the fact that the wellspring of his theory of law is in historical materialism, a factor that makes it less of a legal theory amongst the [...]
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This interview was conducted by the podcast Political Economy for the End Times, which acts as a platform for discussion of the intersecting crises of contemporary capitalism (follow on Twitter here). In this episode, Werner Bonefeld, Professor of Politics at the University of York and a [...]
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In his book Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies, Kevin B. Anderson clearly demonstrates that Marx did not embrace a unilinear, economic determinist position on historical development. Rather, especially in his later writings, he demonstrated a [...]
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James Richard O’Connor (Apr 20, 1930 – Nov 12, 2017)
The passing of James O’Connor marks a significant moment in the history of Marxist scholarship and politics. Born in 1930 and growing up in Boston, a short stint in the merchant marine introduced him to a world beyond the oppressive [...]
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In the first semester of this year, the Past & Present Reading Group chose to tackle the newly published Reading Capital: The Complete Edition, a collection of work by five thinkers, Louis Althusser, Étienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey, and Jacques Rancière. Their [...]
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You might think, at first sight, that Werner Bonefeld’s book Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy is not for you, especially if you dive into the introduction unprepared. Think again. There is more than one way into it, and from the formidable theoretical apparatus and [...]
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Opening Pandora’s Box?
In a recent article co-authored with Pınar Donmez and published in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, we seek to reassess a debate between a heterogeneous body of scholarship, referred to as ‘open Marxism’, and its critics. While we [...]
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