Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them 7-10 November 2024   SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 17th May 2024 Submit paper or panel...

(Photo: Barbara Herrenkind)   After a long illness, our comrade Marina Vishmidt left us on Friday. Her many friends and collaborators are devastated. Historical Materialism sends all our love and...

Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson’s brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era. While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism...

Abstract In this article, I contrast two of the main schools of thought within eco-Marxism, namely Metabolic Rift (MR) and World-Ecology (WE). These differ above all else in their accounts of the...

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Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx…

      All Haymarket titles are 40% off for the duration of the HM Conference. Browse paperbacks from the Historical Materialism book series: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/234-reading-guide-h...

Jameson once told me that, whatever the relative merits of Fables of Aggression might be, it had failed in one respect. He had never been able to persuade anyone that they should read Wyndham Lewis....

Over the past decade racism, racialisation, empire and solidarity have re-emerged as some of the most central and contested issues to contemporary political struggles. The political right has...

When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York...

Register Here Whether the discussion is about reforming pension systems, overhauling health care or the sources of inflation, we are constantly reminded that life has a cost, a price to pay, a burden...

What do we want communism to look like? Søren Mau discusses communist modes of production, Left utopian ideas, the transcendental power of capitalism, and hi...

Twenty-First Annual Historical Materialism London Conference  Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them  7-10 November 2024, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London...

When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York...

In Rescuing Autonomy from Kant, James Furner argues that Marxism’s relation to Kant’s ethics is not one of irrelevance, complementarity or incompatibility, but critique. Although Kant’s formulas of...

Listen to this episode from Historical Materialism Podcast on Spotify. What does the Covid-19 pandemic tell us about the relationship between humans and nature? And how can eco-Marxism help us...

Historical Materialism London Conference

When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York...

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Table of contents for Thesis Eleven, 157, 1, Apr 01, 2020

Publishing books on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of Haymarket’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Now as ever, we...

This roundtable brings together different voices in the articulation of queer Marxism in a discussion of its past, present and future.

Reading Althusser Politically Conference, March 2021. Asad Haider, "Althusser, or Forgetting," (begins at 10:00).Robyn Marasco, "What Every Child Knows: Alth...

Join us for a discussion about the politics of moral panics with Amy De'Ath, Max Fox, and Rahul Rao.

"The Spectre of Capital: Idea and Reality" published on 14 Jul 2022 by Brill.

Draft Programme Available here Call for Papers The war in Ukraine is a brutal and tragic reminder of the fact that imperial ambitions, inter-imperialist rivalry, and nationalism can easily escalate...

An online seminar series led by Jason Read, Andrew Goffey and Jeremy GilbertAt least since the 1960s, a particular strain of radical thought has explored the relationships – potential and act…

Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery—working harder, doing overtime, and learning to hustle. To paraphrase...

Winner of the International Labor History Association (ILHA) 2023 Book of the Year Award for labor historyFor more than a century, municipal socialism has fired the imaginations of workers fighting...

BOOK Launch: The Spectre of Capital by Chris Arthur

Marx, Hegel and Dialectic - Two Further Lectures with Sean Sayers - adding to the previous 6 Lectures

The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century...

It is often asserted that postmodernism emerged from 'leftist' Nietzsche-interpretations, but this claim and its implications are rarely explored. Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism invest...

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Join us for a panel discussion about ME O'Brien's new book, 'Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care.'

Join us for a book launch celebrating The 2023 Isaac & Tamara Deutscher Prize winning "Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History" by Heid...

Jairus Banaji launches A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism (Haymarket, 2020), joined by Henry Bernstein and Fahad Ahmad Bishara

Dig in for a summer of struggle with some radical books from Haymarket. We're offering 40% off ALL our books through the end of August. Get a free Ebook (where available) and free shipping on orders...

What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the quest "to solve intelligence" - a solution supposedly to be found in the secret logic of the mind or in the deep physiology of the brain, such as in...

Abstract This paper develops ‘primitive accumulation’ prior to and then in Karl Marx’s œuvre. By exploring the concept in Adam Smith and Sir James Steuart the paper highlights early influences on...

In this interview conducted in Beijing on 12 October 2015, Samir Amin talked to Lau Kin Chi and Auyeung Lai Seung about his position as a communist, narratin...

The Return of the State? Anticapitalist Politics in a New Ecological Landscape Thursday 4th November – Sunday 14th November 2021 Deadline for abstracts: Monday 6th September 2021 Over the past...

first-time translations and analysis of German-language Marxism

Daniel Andrés López offers an immanent critique of Lukács 's philosophy of praxis

"Freud and the Limits of Bourgeois Individualism" published on 29 Nov 2021 by Brill.

A discussion and book launch for 'Mao Zedong Thought' byWang Fanxi published by Historical Materialism Book Series, Brill/Haymarket

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A reading group for anyone who wants to have a shared journey through a selection of Gramsci's brilliant writings.

Abstract Should the regulation of production and distribution in a socialist society be based on the law of value? In this article we ask (1) Is this question not based on an ontological understand...

The question of anti-Semitism has been at the forefront of much political discussion and debate in recent years. We are seeing the rise of a new wave of anti-Semitism – not only driven by the street...

Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson reflect on the new edition of Marx's Critique if the Gotha Programme to be published shortly

Neoliberalism is dead. Again. After the election of Trump and the victory of Brexit in 2016, many diagnosed the demise of the ideology of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet, and the...