Marxism (Political Science)

'Did Somebody Say Neoliberalism? On the Uses and Limitations of a Critical Concept in Media and Communication Studies'

by Christian Garland

Published in tripleC - Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Special Issue: Marx is Back: The Importance of Marxist Theory and Research for Critical Communication Studies Today eds. Fuchs, C. and Mosco,V.

Christian Garland, Stephen Harper

Port Huron at Fifty: The New Left and Labor: An Interview with Kim Moody

by Christopher Phelps

Published in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, Volume 9, Issue 2 (summer 2012): 25-46.

This interview with Kim Moody, who was present at the Port Huron convention of 1962 as a twenty-two-year-old Johns... more This interview with Kim Moody, who was present at the Port Huron convention of 1962 as a twenty-two-year-old Johns Hopkins University student, illuminates the early history of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), especially the neglected labor-related portions of The Port Huron Statement, one of the most influential manifestos of the sixties radicalization. In a wide-ranging discussion on labor and the New Left, Moody explains the different views of labor represented at Port Huron, appraises individual thinkers such as Tom Hayden and C. Wright Mills, and explores topics such as the meaning of participatory democracy, the politics of labor in the 1960s, class relations in the civil rights movement, the SDS economic and research action projects, and the general relationship between organized labor and the New Left.

Negating that which Negates us: Marcuse, Critical Theory and the New Politics of Refusal

by Christian Garland

‘Negating that which Negates us: Marcuse, Critical Theory and the New Politics of Refusal’ (under review) in Radical Philosophy Review. Version of paper presented as part of Panel 24: ‘Looting, Refusing, Negating, Embodying’, 'Critical Refusals’ Fourth Biennal Conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society, University of Pennsylvania, 27-29 October 2011

Review of Frolich P. (2010) Rosa Luxemburg: Ideas in Action (2012)

by Christian Garland

Unedited version of shorter review published in Anarchist Studies 21.1 pps.119-121
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/anarchiststudies/current.html

The All-Penetrating Ether of Society: Adorno, Exchange, and Abstract Social Domination

by Chris O'Kane

Paper presented at the Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London United Kingdom. 

La contraddizione assoluta del Capitale.

by Stefano Ulliana

Politics.

Capitalism has made of itself an absolute contradiction. Capitalism has made of itself an absolute contradiction.

Marx and Underdevelopment

by Pietro P. Masina

with Mauro Di Meglio, in Ben Fine, Alfredo Saad Filho e Marco Boffo (eds) Elgar Companion to Marxist Economics. Celtenham: Edgar Elgar, 2012

Did 1989 Matter? British Marxists and the Collapse of the Eastern Bloc

by Evan Smith

in P. Kimunguyi & E. Polonska-Kimunguyi (eds), Transitions Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe Twenty Years after the Soviet Union, Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warsaw, 2012 (in press - available June 1, 2012).

http://scholar.com.pl/sklep.php?md=products&id_p=2247

Contact me for a draft version of the paper.

Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism

by Simon Springer

Springer, S. Forthcoming. Neoliberalism as discourse: between Foucauldian political economy and Marxian poststructuralism. Critical Discourse Studies.

Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies... more Contemporary theorizations of neoliberalism are framed by a false dichotomy between, on the one hand, studies influenced by Foucault in emphasizing neoliberalism as a form of governmentality, and on the other hand, inquiries influenced by Marx in foregrounding neoliberalism as a hegemonic ideology. This article seeks to shine some light on this division in an effort to open up new debates and recast existing ones in such a way that might lead to more flexible understandings of neoliberalism as a discourse. A discourse approach moves theorizations forward by recognizing neoliberalism is neither a ‘top down’ nor ‘bottom up’ phenomena, but rather a circuitous process of socio-spatial transformation.

The Negative Impact of Capitalism on the Global Society

by Tobias-René Wilczek

Written for SOC101Y while a Grade 11 Student

CODATO, Adriano. The Eighteenth Brumaire, politics and postmodernism.

by Adriano Codato

published in Lua Nova. Revista de Cultura e Política, São Paulo - SP, v. 64, p. 85-115, 2005.

Most contemporary interpretations of Karl Marx's analyses of European politics of the second half of the nineteenth... more Most contemporary interpretations of Karl Marx's analyses of European politics of the second half of the nineteenth century share both the suppression of all references to the "economy" and its substitution either for the idea of the autonomy of the political (in heterodox views), or for the idea of the performative aspect of language (in post-modern views). This article argues that Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonapart contains an interpretation of politics that can be reduced, from the theoretical point of view, to two explanatory principles of the materialist conception of history: the primacy of economics, and the opposition between essence and appearance. The article seeks to verify the incidence of these two fundamental propositions within that text. Keywords : Karl Marx; The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte; Historical Materialism; Postmodernism.

'WHITHER MARXISM?': a review of Gregor McLennan, Marxism, Pluralism and Beyond

by Kevin Magill

Scroll to p. 40 in pdf. Published in Radical Philosophy, 61, Summer 1992.

Karl Marx's Theory of History: a defense. Critical Notice of G. A. Cohen's book.

by henry laycock

Jerry Cohen's first major book defending Marx's Historical Materialism. I add an anecdote about Jerry (as he liked to be denoted) - I spoke with him as a friend shortly before his death. He had, it seemed, 'lost faith' in the idea of Capitalism's basic crises. This was during the US banking and financial scandal leading uo to the present very serious Europe-centred crisis.The unrestrained greed of the big banks in the years leading up to the 2008 implosion helped to wreck the American — and global — economy. Their business model: privatizing profit and socializing loss.

In Jstor at http://www.jstor.org/stable/40231151

I also add an important quote: "Capital is moved as much and as little by the degradation and final depopulation of the human race, as by the probable fall of the earth into the sun. Apres moi le deluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation" (Marx, CAPITAL Vol 1, 380-381).

Another helpful discussion is Charles Mills

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00201748908602197

Mills writes: G. A. Cohen's influential ‘technological determinist’ reading of Marx's theory of history rests in part... more Mills writes: G. A. Cohen's influential ‘technological determinist’ reading of Marx's theory of history rests in part on an interpretation of Marx's use of ‘material’ whose idiosyncrasy has been insufficiently noticed. Cohen takes historical materialism to be asserting the determination of the social by the material/asocial, viz. ‘socio‐neutral’ facts about human nature and human rationality which manifest themselves in a historical tendency for the forces of production to develop. This paper reviews Marx's writings to demonstrate the extensive textual evidence in favour of the traditional interpretation ‐ that for Marx, the ‘material’ includes the economic, and is thus ineluctably social in character. Thus those critics of Cohen who have urged the inclusion of the relations of production in historical materialism's explanans do seem to have Marx's terminological and conceptual backing.

Review of Holloway, J. (2010) Crack Capitalism (London: Pluto)

by Christian Garland

Review of Holloway, J. (2010) Crack Capitalism (London: Pluto) for Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

Review of Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War Retort - Boal, I. Clark, T.J. Matthews, J. and Watts, M (London: Verso, 2005)

by Christian Garland

Review of Retort - Boal, I. Clark, T.J. Matthews, J. and Watts, M. (2005) Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (London: Verso) in In-Spire: Journal of Law, Politics and Societies Vol. 3, No. 2

Review of Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: OUP)

by Christian Garland

Review of Harvey, D. (2005) A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: OUP) In-Spire: Journal of Law, Politics and Societies Vol. 2, No. 2

‘Ernst Bloch’ entry in Encyclopedia of Political Science (2010)

by Christian Garland

‘Ernst Bloch’ in Encyclopaedia of Political Science (Washington DC: CQ Press, an imprint of SAGE) eds. Kurian, G.T. Alt, J.E. Chambers, S. and Garrett, G.
http://www.cqpress.com/product/Encyclopedia-of-Political-Science.html

‘Simulating events as they happen: media spectacle, ideology, and readymade boogeymen’

by Christian Garland

Text of a talk given at 'Hot Analysis - The streets of London’ Theme 3: Language and the media; presentation for discussion, ‘Simulating events as they happen: media spectacle, ideology, and readymade boogeymen’, UCL, London, 16 August 2011

‘Kronstadt Mutiny 1921’

by Christian Garland

‘Kronstadt Mutiny 1921’ pps. 2003-2005 International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-the present ed. Ness, I. (Oxford & New York: Blackwell Publishing) http://www.revolutionprotestencyclopedia.com/public/

'Autonomism'

by Christian Garland

‘Autonomism’ pps. 322-325 International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-the present ed. Ness, I. (Oxford & New York: Blackwell Publishing) http://www.revolutionprotestencyclopedia.com/public/