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  •  | OVERSHOOT | MR Online

    Overshoot and the 1.5- degree celsius warming target

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on January 6, 2025 by David Schwartzman (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Jan 08, 2025)

    How much above this warming target and for how long overshoot persists will determine the likelihood of emergence of dangerous tipping points in the climate system.

  •  | John Bellamy Foster | MR Online

    John Bellamy Foster interviewed by Daniel Tutt on Georg Lukács and “The Destruction of Reason”

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on February 10, 2023 by Daniel Tutt (more by Historical Materialism)  |

    John Bellamy Foster speaks with Daniel Tutt about the work of István Mészáros and Paul Baran, contemporary irrationalist tendencies in left ecological thought, intensifying global class struggles, and the continued relevance of Georg Lukács’s The Destruction of Reason (1952), recently reissued with an introduction by Enzo Traverso by Verso in 2021.

  •  | A MARXIST HUMANIST PERSPECTIVE | MR Online

    Beyond the binary of race and class: A Marxist Humanist perspective

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on Issue 31 by Peter Hudis (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2024)

    The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point of reexamining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race.

  •  | MARXIST THEORY IN JAPAN A CRITICAL OVERVIEW | MR Online

    Marxist theory in Japan: A critical overview

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on April 2024 by Gavin Walker (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Apr 06, 2024)

    I. To summarise the reception history of Marx in Japan is no small task.1 In fact, it is essentially impossible to give an adequate overview of one of the deepest, most prolific, and most variegated linguistic repositories of the Marxist tradition. Although it remains remarkably little-known in contemporary European or North American intellectual circles, Marxism […]

  •  | The Return of Nature | MR Online

    Marxism and the climate crisis (John Bellamy Foster on the ‘Historical Materialism podcast’)

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on October 2022 (more by Historical Materialism)  |

    Foster begins by referencing the fact that the 19th century, Newtonian view of nature, and the mechanistic, positivist approach to science originally penetrated socialist thought.

  •  | Susan Ferguson 2019 Women and Work Feminism Labour and Social Reproduction London Pluto Press | MR Online

    The Pasts and Futures of Social Reproduction as Dual Terrains Struggle

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on September 2021 by Maud Perrier (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Sep 08, 2021)

    This article discusses Susan Ferguson’s Women and Work and how it advances contemporary debates about social reproduction within and beyond Marxist feminism. In particular, I emphasise its call for avoiding hierarchising struggles against oppression and those against exploitation, and for centring a dual-terrains approach. – Maud Perrier

  •  | Fascism Fascisation Antifascism | MR Online

    Fascism, fascisation, antifascism

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on January 7, 2021 by Ugo Palheta (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2021)

    Fascism can be classically defined as an ideology, a movement and a regime.

  •  | Charles H Kerr | MR Online

    Capital Comes to America: Charles H. Kerr & Company and the Cross-Atlantic Journey of Marx’s Master Work

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on July 14, 2020 (more by Historical Materialism)  |

    On his regularly appearing “Publisher’s Notes” page of the ISR, Kerr would often emphasise that the company was organised to do just one thing–to bring out books valuable to the international socialist movement and to circulate them at prices affordable for working class readers.

  •  | Dialectical Confusion On Jason Moores Posthumanist Marxism | MR Online

    Dialectical Confusion: On Jason Moore’s Posthumanist Marxism

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on June 25, 2020 by Alf Hornbog (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2020)

    What constitutes acceptable Marxist theory is a topic of endless debate. Over the past few decades, much ink has been devoted to how we should go about reconciling Marxism and ecological concerns.

  •  | Soviet Archaeology in Theory and Practice | MR Online

    Soviet Archaeology in Theory and Practice

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on September 2019 by Marcus Bajema (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Sep 18, 2019)

    A Review of Ancient Irrigation Systems of the Aral Sea Area: The History, Origin, and Development of Irrigated Agriculture by Boris V. Andrianov, and Soviet Archaeology: Schools, Trends, and History by Leo S. Klejn

  •  |  by Dottie+Henrik Soderstrom is licensed under CC BY NC 40 | MR Online

    Marxism, space and a few urban questions: a rough guide to the English language Lliterature

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on June 2019 by Stefan Kipfer (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Jun 25, 2019)

    Starting in the late 1960s, ‘radical geography’ became a crucial avenue of intellectual innovation in contemporary Marxism. For a generation, its basic orientation was two-fold: (1) politicise ‘space’ by challenging the stranglehold of specialists (architects, urban planners, designers, military planners, regional and development officials) in the spatial disciplines, and (2) insist, simultaneously, on the importance of spatial questions within the various currents of the left.

  •  | Marx and the Dutch East India Company | MR Online

    Marx and the Dutch East India Company

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on June 13, 2019 by Pepijn Brandon (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Jun 22, 2019)

    In the final part of Capital, Volume I on “the so-called original accumulation”, Marx gives a dazzling overview of the often violent historical phenomena that contributed to the birth of the capitalist system, “dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt.”

  •  | Michael Heinrich Image derived from httpmarx biografiedewp contentuploads201710MH beajpg | MR Online

    Interview with Michael Heinrich

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on 2018 by Darren Roso (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Jun 03, 2019)

    Think about it: when we look at our own biography, to what influenced us, why we became what we became, why we became leftists, very often there are already events in childhood. When you were a youngster, perhaps there was a teacher, who influenced you or an early friend, who opened your eyes to this or that or a book, which inspired you.

  •  | Praxis and Critical Theory Interview with Andrew Feenberg | MR Online

    Praxis and critical theory

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on November 2018 (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Dec 04, 2018)

    In fact, my book begins with the early Marx because he created the first version of what I call the philosophy of praxis. The key problem of this version of Marxism is what Marx called the “realisation” of philosophy.

  •  | Racism and the Logic of Capitalism | MR Online

    Racism and the logic of capitalism

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on Issue 26(2): Identity Politics (more by Historical Materialism)  |

    The emergence of a new generation of anti-racist activists and thinkers battling police abuse, the prison-industrial complex and entrenched racism in the US, alongside the crisis over immigration and growth of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere, makes this a crucial moment to develop theoretical perspectives that conceptualise race and racism as integral to capitalism while going beyond identity politics that treat such issues primarily in cultural and discursive terms.

  •  | Dave Beech Art and Value Arts Economic Exceptionalism in Classical Neoclassical and Marxist Economics Boston Brill 2015 | MR Online

    Review of Art and Value by Dr. Nizan Shaked

    Originally published: Historical Materialism on December 2017 by Nizan Shaked (more by Historical Materialism)  | (Posted Dec 13, 2017)

    Art and Value: Art’s Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics reveals the irreconcilable differences between the Marxist economic definition of the term ‘value’ and its other uses in relation to the art object. It corrects the faulty assumption that rare or historical objects bear intrinsic value, symptomatic of capitalist worldview. Beech’s analysis of art’s value-form is critical to unpacking the double ontological condition of art as both an object of collective symbolic value and a hoard of monetary value, since the two operate in mutually exclusive spheres, yet function to constitute one another. The book can help us understand the capitalist sleight of hand that allows art to flicker between two forms of being, making profit appear as value, and value appear as significance (and vice versa), the toggling between the two facilitating the transfer of commonly held symbolic value in support of the individual accumulation of wealth.

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    Sam-Kee Cheng  | A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory smoking a cigar The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS dollar imperialism | MR Online

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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