Marxist theory

Of borders and homes: the imaginary community of (trans) sexual citizenship

by Aren Aizura

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 7:2 (2006), 289—309.

'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

Marxism and Contemporary "Peasant" Activism

by Chris Wright

Review - John Holloway, Crack Capitalism (London, 2010)

by Uday Chandra

Theses on the verbal community.

by Mark Burton

Talking among Themselves? Weberian and Marxist Historical Sociologies as Dialogues without 'Others'

by Gurminder K Bhambra

Sociology’s orientation to history is based around agreement on the importance of key substantive issues concerning... more Sociology’s orientation to history is based around agreement on the importance of key substantive issues concerning the emergence of modernity and the related ‘rise of the West’, as well as agreement around a stadial idea of progressive development and the privileging of Eurocentred histories in the construction of such a framework. Within these areas of broad agreement, however, there are also key points of contestation between the strong forms of macro-sociology as embodied, in particular, by Marxist and Weberian approaches, for example, Brenner, Anderson, and Wallerstein on the one hand, and Runciman, Giddens and Mann, on the other. The sites of contestation include addressing the precise nature of the origins of capitalism, the importance of the commercial versus the agrarian mode of production in the transition to capitalism, or arguments about how later developing countries might accommodate forms of modernity already established, for example, as in the multiple modernities debates. What these debates all have in common is that they can be carried out in the context of a standard framework of comparative sociology, a framework that I will argue is unable to address the issues raised by the turn to postcolonial studies and global history.

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

Something for all, so that none may escape: reworking the critique of consumption (2012)

by Christian Garland

Something for all, so that none may escape: reworking the critique of consumption in Fast Capitalism 8:2

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. 

Joan Robinson’s Short-Period Theory of Employment - a development of the contributions of Keynes, Kalecki and Marx

by Brendan Sheehan

A longer version of this paper was originally presented to the Association for Heterodox Economists Conference at the Open University in London in July 2000.

This paper is a pedagogic tool that seeks to re-activate interest in Joan Robinson’s short period theory of... more This paper is a pedagogic tool that seeks to re-activate interest in Joan Robinson’s short period theory of employment, which has been ignored by mainstream economists. This theory develops the arguments advanced by Kalecki and Keynes with respect to employment, whilst the treatment of unemployment synthesises the seemingly disparate perspectives of Keynes and Marx. A simple two-sector model outlines Robinson’s distinctive treatment of the main components of aggregate demand. The distribution of income is the dominant influence on consumption, there is a two-stage multiplier effect and profits in the Consumption sector dictate the rate of investment. It predicts that effective demand determines total output, capacity utilisation and aggregate employment. It then specifies two categories of unemployment - Keynesian (demand deficient) and Marxian (reserve army). The model provides a snapshot of how employment responds to a change in effective demand, which is consistent with the Robinsonian vision of an economy moving along an irreversible time path.

'After Gramsci' Screen Education, Number 36, Autumn 1980, pp. 5-15. ISSN 0306-0691

by Colin Mercer

Screen Education, Number 36, Autumn 1980, pp. 5-15. ISSN 0306-0691

'Culture and Ideology in Gramsci'

by Colin Mercer

Red Letters: Communist Party Literature Journal, No 8, 1978, pp.19-40.

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.

Benvenuti in tempi interessanti di Slavoj Žižek. La rivoluzione è possibile nel regno dell’uomo-massa?

by Pietro Piro

Recensione critica a S. Žižek, Benvenuti in tempi interessanti, Ponte alle Grazie, Milano 2012.

E' vero che per soppiantare efficacemente il capitale, ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno è l'opera graduale, lunga e faticosa... more E' vero che per soppiantare efficacemente il capitale, ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno è l'opera graduale, lunga e faticosa di riorganizzare interamente il processo produttivo in modo tale che le forze di alienazione della regolamentazione tanto del mercato quanto dello Stato vengano sostituite da un'autentica pianificazione organizzata "dal basso", in un rapporto di trasparenza con i produttori come afferma S. Žižek, oppure, il capitale non si tocca perché garantisce la lunga vita dell'uomo-massa?

Culture, Space, Objectification: Adorno's Current of Music

by Wesley Phillips

forthcoming in the European Journal of Social Theory

From Marxian Objectivism toward Austrian Subjectivism: A Phenomenological Approach

by Xavier Meulders

Unabridged version of a paper to be delivered for the joint K.U.Leuven/UCLouvain seminar 'Ethics and Public Policy' (March 2012). Please do not quote.

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.

A Global Standpoint? Reification, Globalization, and Contemporary Praxis

by Noah De Lissovoy

In Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education (Z. Leonardo, Ed.)