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After losing a coveted niche in the trucking industry, I started UCLA as an adult freshman, attracted by rumors of a high-powered seminar on Capital led by Bob Brenner in the History Department.
Verso is extremely sad to announce the death of our friend and comrade Mike Davis (1946-2022), (...)
Critics of Marx have accused him of imposing a European model of historical development on the rest of the world. But the real Marx rejected Eurocentric thinking and developed a sophisticated view of world history in all its diversity and complexity.
Despite a revival of interest in his (...)
In November 2020, socialists around the world celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Friedrich Engels. It is a mistake, often repeated, to regard Engels as a simple populariser of Marx’s ideas.
Not only did he contribute with Marx in 1844-48 to the formation of a new worldview - the (...)
Review of Terrell Carver, Engels Before Marx (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).
Friedrich Engels, born 200 years ago on November 28, 1820, has been termed the ‘first Marxist’ in some commentaries and histories from the nineteenth century on, and with good reason, but despite this, Engels’ early works (...)
Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society: The Life of Marx and the Development of His Work, Volume I: 1818-1841. By Michael Heinrich. Translated by Alexander Locascio. Monthly Review Press, 2019, 390 pages, $34 cloth.
THE FIRST VOLUME of Michael Heinrich’s biography of Karl Marx, if any (...)
At the bicentenary of his birth, Frederick Engels’s reputation as an original thinker is, among Anglophone academics at least, at its nadir. The main reason for this unfortunate state of affairs is undoubtedly political. Despite the recent global economic crisis and associated increases in (...)
The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that are often surprisingly divorced from Karl Marx’s critique of capitalism, (...)
Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism Capitalism, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy By Kohei Saito New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017, 308 pages, $29 paperback.
MAINSTREAM ECOLOGISTS OFTEN dismiss Karl Marx as “productivist” and blind to ecological problems. A growing body of (...)
Does Karl Marx have any relevance for today’s struggles for women’s liberation? Do his theories of society and revolutionary transformation present us with tools that in any way continue to be useful?
These and related questions come up repeatedly — as I will argue — for two very different (...)
Through his relationship with the Chartist radical and labor poet Ernest Jones, Karl Marx came to realize the necessity of opposing slavery and colonialism in ending capitalism.
In his film The Young Karl Marx, director Raoul Peck features a scene where an anonymous Frenchman of African (...)
This is an edited excerpt from Sven Eric Liedman’s A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx - currently 50% off as part of our [Verso Books] end-of-year sale.
“It is impossible to read the introductory, stylistically razor-sharp and rhetorically perfect first pages of the Communist (...)
There were 12 people at Karl Marx’s burial. His grave was small and neglected until 1956 when the British Communist Party organised a grander memorial. A new memorial is now being discussed
On March 15, 1883, the day after Karl Marx died, Friedrich Engels wrote to the German-American Socialist (...)
Author’s last version of my response to a symposium in Dialectical Anthropology (published online spring 2015) on Marx at the Margins: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies. The symposium featured these essays: Aijaz Ahmad (India), “Karl Marx, Global Theorist,” David Norman Smith (...)
One objection to Marxism is that it originated two centuries ago in Europe—so what could it have to say to the world’s oppressed today? Lance Selfa has an answer.
MANY ACTIVISTS today first encounter Marxist ideas in and around college campuses, where certain interpretations of Karl Marx and (...)
An Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital. By Michael Heinrich (translated by Alexander Locascio). New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012, 240 pages, $15.95 paper.
THE GLOBAL REDISCOVERY of Marx’s economic writings in the past five years should come as no surprise. The financial (...)
Presentation at the Historical Materialism Conference London, November 10, 2012.
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For the first time in history, humanity has to conceive our emancipation under a global ecological constraint, unsurpassable by an increase in labor productivity.
Global warming (...)
Paul Mason is one of the best journalists covering the global economy today. His book Live Working, Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global is an essential resource for anyone concerned about the workers’ struggle against oppression and for liberation in the past, present and future. I (...)
Marx’s dialectic of race and class is related to that of Frantz Fanon and to the Civil War in the U.S., which unleashed many revolutionary possibilities – Editors.
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As the U.S. marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War this year, some attention has been given to (...)
Marx at the Margins: On Nationalism, Ethnicity and Non-Western Societies By: Kevin B. Anderson Chicago, The Chicago University Press, 2010, 319 pages, $66 (hard cover); $22.50 (paperback). Reviewed by Michael Löwy.
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This truly path-breaking book goes (...)
Despite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where “individuals are directed by abstractions,” (Marx), where impersonal relations and objects [Versachlicht] (...)
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