How relevant is Political Marxism today, and what are its main critiques? Join for our inaugural episode of the Historical Materialism Podcast to find out. The podcast offers a deep-dive into each new issue of the Historical Materialism Journal, starting with Issue 29.3, a symposium on Political Marxism. Link: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/political-marxism/id1593212797?i=1000540518497

Editorial Perspective: ‘The Mute Compulsion of Economic Relations’: Towards a Marxist Theory of the Abstract and Impersonal Power of Capital. Søren Mau Symposium Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism An Introduction to the Symposium on Knafo and Teschke. Maïa Pal Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction of Capitalism: A Historicist Critique. Samuel Knafo and Benno Teschke…

The latest issue of New Left Review opens with an essay by Robert Brenner on the Covid-19 bailouts in the United States: Escalating Plunder. The article can be found here.

Xavier Lafrance teaches political science at the Université du Québec à Montréal. With Charles Post, he co-edited the book Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (Palgrave 2018) and he is the author of The Making of Capitalism in France. Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914 (Brill,…

“From Feudal Stagnation to Capitalist Dynamism: Uneven Development, Late Development, and Uneven and Combined Development” – public lecture delivered by Robert Brenner at the conference “Uneven and Combined Development for the 21st Century”  (University of Glasgow, September 2019). Here, Brenner summarises his approach to the history of capitalism and engages with the recent revival of…

Political Marxist George Comninel has recently published a collection of essays under the title Alienation and Emancipation in the work of Karl Marx. The book is part of the broader series Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, which has published other titles inspired by the political Marxist tradition. The book can be found in the publisher’s page here….

“If the global economy comes skidding to a halt sometime soon, the results for the vast majority of people around the world would be miserable. The Left needs to be prepared for it.” Jacobin has just published an interview with political Marxist David McNally on the state of the global economy – full article available here.

The podcast series Political Economy for the End Times has just released an interview with political Marxist Samuel Knafo (Sussex). The interview traces the unlikely origins of neoliberalism and financialisation to 1950s US military research, the RAND corporation, and evolving banking practices. The interview is available here.    

The podcast series Political Economy for the End Times has just released an interview with political Marxist Adrienne Roberts (Manchester). The interview revolves around Marxist feminism, social reproduction theory, and the relationship between capitalism and the patriarchy. The podcast is available here.

The Center for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) and the Political Marxism Research Group are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Javier Moreno Zacarés (Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick), on ‘The Political in Motion: Towards a Historicist Narrative of the Spanish Crash’. The talk will be held on Wednesday, 22 May, 11-1pm, Arundel 211 (Sussex). Abstract: This papers offers a…