See below for the upcoming and some of the past events associated with the activities of The Laboratory for Alternative Theories.
Featured Event
Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation
Saturday February 5th, 2022
This is a book launch of Marcello Musto’s new edited book, “Karl Marx’s Writings on Alienation”, with Michael Hardt as the discussant. 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 who have written on this concept over the 20th century have erroneously based their interpretations on Marx’s early writings. In this anthology, by contrast, Marcello Musto has concentrated his selection on the most relevant pages of Marx’s later economic works, in which his thoughts on alienation were far more extensive and detailed than those of the early philosophical manuscripts. Additionally, the writings collated in this volume are unique in their presentation of not only Marx’s critique of capitalism, but also his description of communist society. This comprehensive rediscovery of Marx’s ideas on alienation provides an indispensable critical tool for both understanding the past and the critique of contemporary society.
Karl Marx 1881-1883. El último viaje del moro
Sunday, October 18, 2020
¿A qué se dedicó Karl Marx los tres últimos años de su vida? En este libro se descubren sus intereses, proyectos y necesidades intelectuales. Preocupaciones tan actuales como las transformaciones del sentido de comunidad o la libertad del individuo, la crítica a la destrucción de la naturaleza, al colonialismo ocuparon a Marx en ese período. Esta etapa revela una mirada más global del fenómeno capitalista. Presentan: Marcello Musto (autor), Elvira Concheiro y Araceli Mondragón.
Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: A Panel Discussion
Saturday December 18
2-4PM EST/ 7-9PM GMT
Join Marcello Musto with Himani Bannerji, Michael Brie, Gregory Claeys, and Silvia Federici in launching “Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy, Ecology, and Migration.”
This book presents a Marx that is in many ways different from the one popularized by the dominant currents of 20th century Marxism. The dual aim of this collective volume is to contribute to a new critical discussion on Marx’s critique of political economy and to develop a deeper analysis of certain questions, like ecology and migration, to which relatively little attention has been paid until recently.
On the Receptions of Karl Marx’s Capital in the Anglophone World
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
6:00pm to 8:00pm
As part of The Franke Lectures in the Humanities Seminars on The Value of Marx’s Capital, Babak Amini provides a critical overview of the history of the translation and dissemination of Marx’s Capital in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. Babak Amini is the co-editor of the forthcoming The Routledge Handbook of Marx’s “Capital”: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception.