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  •  | Sophia Rosenfeld The Age of Choice A History of Freedom in Modern Life | MR Online

    ‘Racism and ‘Free Speech’’ by Anshuman A Mondal, ’The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life’ by Sophia Rosenfeld reviewed by Guy Lancaster

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on April 22, 2025 by Guy Lancaster (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Apr 23, 2025)

    ‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.

  •  | Everything to Play For How Videogames Are Changing the World | MR Online

    Review: Marijam Did – “Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on March 31, 2025 by Vladimir Rizov (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Apr 05, 2025)

    Videogames are everywhere.

  •  | Western Marxism | MR Online

    Domenico Losurdo: “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on January 9, 2025 by Vernon Shaw (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2025)

    Thought-provoking and polemical as ever, the recent publication of Domenico Losurdo’s “Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn”, finally provides English readers with access to the prolific Italian philosopher and militant’s penultimate book.

  •  | Has Political Correctness Gone Mad The Anatomy of a Right Wing Conspiracy Theory | MR Online

    Tony McKenna: “Has Political Correctness Gone Mad? The Anatomy of a Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory” – Book Review

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on December 11, 2024 by Sean Sayers (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Dec 12, 2024)

    We are all familiar with the charge that some policy or decision is a case of ‘political correctness gone mad’, part of the rhetoric of the ‘culture wars’, but we may not have thought a great deal more about it.

  •  | Vanessa Christina Wills Marxs Ethical Vision Oxford University Press New York 2024 298 pp $45 hb ISBN 9780197688144 | MR Online

    “Marx’s Ethical Vision” – Book Review

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on November 26, 2024 by Sam Ben-Meir (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Nov 27, 2024)

    There is much to say on behalf of Vanessa Christina Wills’ Marx’s Ethical Vision, which not only advances Marxist scholarship but takes a strong, well-founded position regarding some of the most vexing and significant questions confronting anyone who would grasp his philosophical thought.

  •  | A Peoples History of Detroit | MR Online

    “A People’s History of Detroit” – Book Review

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on November 18, 2024 by Garrett Pierman (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Nov 20, 2024)

    Composing a history of Detroit is an exercise in tying together many economic and social trends within a microcosm of class, race, and fraught politics. Mark Jay and Philip Conklin’s work discusses the 20th-century history of the city to offer a documentation of class struggle seen through the industrialization of the city in the early 20th century, the racial tensions of the post-World War II period, and, finally, the simultaneous processes of decay and development in the last three decades.

  •  | Simone de Beauvoir e o feminismo | ex isto | MR Online

    “Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex” – Book Review

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on August 29, 2024 by Naomi Simmons-Thorne (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Aug 30, 2024)

    Belle and Beauvoir proves to be a much needed contribution on a neglected topic. Importantly, it comes at a time when theorists are calling for both greater conceptual clarity on how systems like capitalism and racism interact as well a return to the thought of Black women Marxists and communists.

  •  | Beverley Best The Automatic Fetish The Law of Value in Marxs Capital Verso New York 2024 358 pp $2995 pb ISBN 9781804294802 | MR Online

    Beverley Best – “The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 17, 2024 by Jacob Spenser Wilson (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2024)

    Capitalist crises cannot only be measured by its catastrophic effects on society, but also by the reception of their most staunchest critique: Karl Marx’s Capital.

  •  | Ianir Milevski ed Marxist Archeology Today Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century | MR Online

    Ianir Milevski (ed) “Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on May 21, 2024 by Brant Roberts (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted May 23, 2024)

    Archeology has always been a political science. Since its inception the field has attempted to trace our lineage as a species along the lines of identity, territory and culture. Though often portrayed as a discipline slightly closer to the hard sciences than historiography, it is much closer to its distant cousin in the social sciences than towards anything resembling an empirical practice.

  •  | Brett Christophers Our Lives in Their Portfolios Why Asset Managers Own the World | MR Online

    Brett Christophers: “Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on April 24, 2024 by Thomas Klikauer and Thu Nguyen (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted May 08, 2024)

    Since the global financial crisis, big banks have taken a backseat, and asset managers have become the—often self-appointed—new experts and administrators of capitalism.

  •  | Ernest Mandel Hope and Marxism Historical and Theoretical Essays | MR Online

    Ernest Mandel – “Hope and Marxism: Historical and Theoretical Essays”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on February 10, 2024 by Fabian Van Onzen (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Feb 12, 2024)

    Some of Ernest Mandel’s finest work on Marxist theory and revolutionary politics appeared in the form of short articles. “Hope and Marxism” collects eleven of Mandel’s most significant articles and provides an excellent introduction to his thought.

  •  | Vivek Chibber The Class Matrix Social Theory after the Cultural Turn | MR Online

    Review: Vivek Chibber – “The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on August 27, 2023 by Chris James Newlove (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Aug 31, 2023)

    The Class Matrix concisely and systematically argues the case for the continued importance of class for the radical left today. Vivek Chibber rigorously debunks various long held understandings that characterise radical left thought since the cultural turn.

  •  | Elite Capture | MR Online

    Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò – “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on August 29, 2023 by Kevin Dodson (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Aug 30, 2023)

    The culture wars are back with a vengeance, if they ever actually left us.

  •  | MARTIN HEIDEGGER   Mente Filosófica | MR Online

    Review: Richard Wolin – “Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on August 25, 2023 by Joan Braune (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Aug 28, 2023)

    The philosophical community knows by now that philosopher Martin Heidegger was fiercely antisemitic and personally drew connections between his philosophy and his support for Nazi ideology.

  •  | Friedrich Engels | MR Online

    Sven-Eric Liedman – ‘The Game of Contradictions: The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth Century Science’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on July 27, 2023 by Matt Shafer (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Aug 02, 2023)

    Liedman portrays Engels’ alternative picture of science as a ‘non-reductive materialism’ characterised by a deep confidence in the unity of knowledge and by an equally deep resistance to treating any level of reality as totally determined by another. Engels’ account of scientificity—of what shape a legitimate theory can take—was modelled both on Marx’s theory of capitalism and on Darwin’s theory of evolution.

  •  | Karl Marx | MR Online

    Levy del Águila Marchena: ‘Communism, Political Power and Personal Freedom in Marx’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on June 27, 2023 by Eduardo Frajman (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Jun 30, 2023)

    Marx diagnosed the oppression of the working class, the alienation of workers from their labor, as well as the alienation of all human beings living within capitalism from their own authentic selves, and proposed that it was objectively possible that emancipation, true liberation, would come one day.

  •  | Zhou Xun and Sander L Gilman I Know Who Caused COVID 19 Pandemics and Xenophobia | MR Online

    Review: ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on April 24, 2023 by David C. Perlman (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Apr 26, 2023)

    A critical review of a Lacanian individualist approach by a fan of Rob Wallace, and chief of infectious disease at Mount Sinai in NY.

  •  | United States of War A Global History of Americas Endless Conflicts from Columbus to the Islamic State | MR Online

    David Vine- “United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, from Columbus to the Islamic State”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on March 20, 2023 by Tabitha Spence (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Mar 28, 2023)

    With World War III looming on the horizon as a very real possibility, now is a more critical time than ever to understand the history and motives of the United States, the world’s greatest hegemon.

  •  | The Untold Story of Capitalism Primitive Accumulation and the Anti Slavery Revolution by Enrique S Rivera reviewed by Joel Wendland Liu | MR Online

    Review: Enrique S Rivera – “The Untold Story of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution”

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on March 10, 2023 by Joel Wendland-Liu (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Mar 14, 2023)

    Every May 10th marks Afro-Venezuelan Day and commemorates the 1795 Coro Rebellion. The May 1795 revolutionary events are the centerpiece of Enrique S. Rivera’s The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution.

  •  | Green Marx | MR Online

    Kohei Saito: ‘Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism’

    Originally published: Marx & Philosophy on February 27, 2023 by Tim Christiaens (more by Marx & Philosophy)  | (Posted Mar 03, 2023)

    In 2017, Japanese Marx scholar Kohei Saito published ‘Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism’, which won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize the following year.

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