Venue: Makassar – Jakarta Date and time: Makassar, 21st July – 16.00; Jakarta, 7th August – 17.00 The talk challenges the long-lasting misrepresentation of Marx as a Eurocentric and economistic thinker who was fixated only on class conflict. It allows to reconsider Marx’s ideas in light of late remarks on non-Western societies, anthropology, and the […]
By Marcello Musto February 1867, after more than two decades of herculean work, Karl Marx told his friend Friedrich Engels that the first part of his long-awaited critique of political economy was finally complete. Marx travelled from London to Hamburg to deliver the manuscript of Volume I (“The Process of Production of Capital”) of his magnum opus […]
Bob Jessop is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University (UK). Among his books there are: The Future of the Capitalist State (Polity, 2002), State Power: A Strategic-Relational Approach (Polity, 2007), and The State: Past, Present, Future (Polity, 2016). Heather A. Brown is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Westfield State University (Massachusetts, USA). She is the author of Marx on Gender and the […]
The Marx Revival Discussion with John Bellamy Foster & Marcello Musto on Marx’s Ideas on Ecology and Communism Saturday, 7 May 2022 2:00 – 4:00 (Eastern Standard Time) Organized jointly by Marxist Education Project, Shelter & Solidarity, and Monthly Review Marcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University and is acknowledged globally as one of the […]
Join us on 5 May 2022 (8PM IST; 10:30AM EST) for a discussion between Marcello Musto and Vijay Prasad to discuss the new groundbreaking research on the last years of on Karl Marx and its relevance for our time Marcello Musto is a professor of Sociology at York University and is acknowledged globally as one of the authors who has made […]
“As the West Goes to War, Crafting Peace Today”A Panel Discussion organized by Calcutta Research GroupMonday 25 April 2022 at 7.00 pm IST, 3.30 pm CET As Europe, broadly the West, goes to war and the media grimly predicts a third world war, this panel discussion asks pertinent questions about the meaning of this war for […]
Here are two recent publications associated with the activities of the Laboratory on recent debates on alternatives to capitalism. This review essay offers a critical overview of five influential books on the topic of alternatives to capitalism published between the Great Recession and the Global Pandemic. These titles are a small fraction of this burgeoning […]
By Marcello Musto While political science has probed the ideological, political, economic, and even psychological motivations behind the drive to war, socialist theory has made a unique contribution by highlighting the relationship between the development of capitalism and war. The Left has long theorized its opposition to war, and the main positions of socialist theorists […]
Join us for a fascinating discussion between Marcello Musto and Michael Hardt to discuss the new groundbreaking anthology on Karl Marx’s writings on alienation. The theory of alienation occupies a significant place in the work of Marx and has long been considered one of his main contributions to the critique of bourgeois society. Many authors […]
Here are two recently published books in our Marx, Engels, Marxisms series: Siegfried Kracauer, or, The Allegories of Improvisations: Critical Studies, by Miguel Vedda – This book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer’s work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory of historiographic method, the […]