Call For Papers: Karl Marx and Rosa Luxemburg – Thought Legacy and...
The Thirteenth Forum of the World Association for Political Economy July 16-18, 2018, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany Proposed Topics: The Thought of Karl Marx and Its Contemporary Value...
View ArticleRIP, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that the pioneering political economist Samir Amin has passed. May he Rest In Power. From a Marxist perspective, Samir Amin was highly influential in...
View ArticleImperialism in the 21st Century
With respect to to this post, readers might be interested in a long set of follow-up debates below. h/t Patrick Bond, whose contribution was just published here at Human Geography David Harvey Denies...
View ArticleNew Book: Dust Bowls of Empire – Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the...
By Hannah Holleman. From Yale University Press: A profound reinterpretation of both the Dust Bowl on the U.S. southern plains and its relevance for today The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and...
View ArticleThe Roots of Marx’s Anti-Colonialism
By Thierry Drapeau, In his film The Young Karl Marx, director Raoul Peck features a scene where an anonymous Frenchman of African descent makes a heartfelt intervention during one of Pierre-Joseph...
View ArticleThe Real History of Imperialism: A Comment by James Parisot on Recent Debates
By James Parisot, The continuing debate over contemporary imperialism triggered by John Smith’s criticisms of David Harvey has been wide ranging and brought forth many important questions for 21st...
View ArticleGlobal Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
By Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster (originally posted at Monthly Review), Twenty-first-century capitalist production can no longer be understood as a mere aggregation of national...
View ArticleSamir Amin: The Organic Intellectual
Taking as its point of departure this documentary, itself a feature of 50 books by Samir Amin, depicts the audacious struggles of, as well as interviews with, this most outstanding intellectual of the...
View ArticleLeon Trotsky’s “Theory of Permanent Revolution” and defending revolutions...
By Ernest Tate, Remarks prepared for the Havana Conference, May 6-8, 2019, on the occasion of the centennial of the founding of the Third International, on the topic of “Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism”....
View ArticleImperialism, a Marxist understanding
By Tony Norfield, (originally posted here) Imperialism benefits imperialist governments and corporations, but also the mass of the populations in the powerful countries. The marxist perspective...
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