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Karl Marx

Professor and CRC Leo Panitch on renewed interest in Karl Marx

With the West suffering from the after-effects of the financial crisis and revolution in the air in parts of the world, could it possibly be springtime for Marx? wrote The Globe and Mail March 26: “I’m optimistic about the explosion that’s happened in Wisconsin,” says Leo Panitch, a political science professor at York University [Faculty […]

Economic fallout and social activism top agenda at Historical Materialism conference

The effects of the global economic crisis on poor and working class people around the world will be the focus of the 2010 Historical Materialism conference at York starting today and drawing hundreds of scholars to hear some 250 papers. Speakers will come from Canada, the United States, Mexico, India, South Korea, Britain, Australia and […]