Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | April 15, 2025

What is the 34th book chosen for the Past & Present Reading Group at the University of Sydney?

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Althusser, “levels” and a scholarly dialogue

Brett Heino | David Backer | October 15, 2024

Both of us are researchers who are deeply influenced by the work of French philosopher Louis Althusser. Responsible in large part for a vigorous approach to Marxism in the 1960s and 1970s (dubbed “structural Marxism”), Althusser the scholar was always controversial.

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Marxist Viewing of Dune: Part Two

Elliot Dolan-Evans | April 16, 2024

The latest movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic novel Dune, Dune: Part Two directed by Denis Villeneuve, has set truly intergalactic box office records, and been globally exalted by movie critics. Dune: Part Two has, of 24 March, hit over US$220 million in the United States domestic [...]

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Reconstructing the labour theory of value: An interview with Duncan Foley (Part 2: The Capitalist Law of Exchange)

David Calnitsky | John Clegg | December 5, 2023

Reconstructing the labour theory of value: An interview with Duncan Foley (Part 2: The Capitalist Law of Exchange)

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Reconstructing the Labour Theory of Value: An Interview with Duncan Foley (Part 1: The Commodity Law of Exchange)

John Clegg | David Calnitsky | October 24, 2023

Marxists tend to like the labor theory of value because it provides a vivid account of exploitation and highlights a basic antagonism at the core of capitalism: capitalists and workers are locked in a battle over the appropriation of the surplus that workers produce. But many commentators [...]

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Marxian Economics: An Introduction

David Ruccio | August 16, 2022

As you open my new textbook, Marxian Economics: An Introduction, you may be wondering, why should I study Marxian economics? In the United States and in many other countries, Marxian theory, including Marxian economics, is a controversial topic. That's certainly been true for the past few [...]

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CfP Ships in the proletarian night: contemporary Marxist thought in France and Britain

Sakshi Aravind | September 3, 2020

Call for Papers Ships in the proletarian night: contemporary Marxist thought in France and Britain

25th – 27th March 2021

Alison Richards Building, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge

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History, Class Consciousness, and the Scandal of Philosophy

Cat Moir | May 6, 2020

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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