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Historical Materialism
Literary Studies September 18, 2023

The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation

Lenora Hanson

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
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Lenora Hanson's The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022) provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today. Lenora Hanson glimpses histories …

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Interviews with scholars of historical materialism about their new books.

World Affairs August 8, 2023

Wallerstein 2.0

Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century

Frank Jacob

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
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Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors of Wallerstein 2.0: Thinking and Applying World-Systems Theory in the 21st Century (Transcript …
Biblical Studies August 2, 2023

Jesus

A Life in Class Conflict

James Crossley and Robert J. Myles

Hosted by Rob Heaton
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Alongside their collective acumen in traditional historical-critical and social-scientific approaches to the New Testament, James Crossley and Robert J. Myles bring a worthwhile dose of historical materialist criticism to historical …
Politics & Polemics June 9, 2023

Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn

Anticommunism, Marxism, and the Fate of the Soviet Union

Doug Enaa Greene

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
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As capitalism’s popularity wanes and socialism’s popularity increases, there remains a massive shadow cast by the history of actually existing socialism, Stalin being the primary pillar. His violent rule …
Critical Theory May 6, 2023

Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy

Amazon and the Power of Organization

Sarrah Kassem

Hosted by Dave O'Brien
How have platforms transforming the world of work? In Work and Alienation in the Platform Economy: Amazon and the Power of Organisation (Bristol UP, 2023), Sarrah Kassem, a Lecturer and Research …
Critical Theory March 31, 2023

After Marx

Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century

Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Colleen Lye and Christopher Nealon's edited volume After Marx: Literature, Theory, and Value in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge UP, 2022) demonstrates the importance of Marxist literary and cultural criticism for an …
Biography March 28, 2023

Class Warrior

The Selected Works of E. T. Kingsley

Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt, editors

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The socialist activist E. T. Kingsley occupies an odd place in the history of labor and the left. Often mentioned due to his prolific life of speaking, writing, traveling …
Art March 19, 2023

Autonomy

The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism

Nicholas Brown

Hosted by Kaveh Rafie
In Autonomy: The Social Ontology of Art under Capitalism (Duke University Press, 2019), Nicholas Brown offers a fresh perspective on aesthetic autonomy and its political value, one of the great debates of the twentieth century …
Critical Theory January 17, 2023

The Coming of the American Behemoth

The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940

Michael Joseph Roberto

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 shocked and appalled a number of people, forcing a critical reevaluation of what was possible, and what we ought to be vigilant …
Caribbean Studies January 8, 2023

The Unexceptional Case of Haiti

Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society

Philippe-Richard Marius

Hosted by Aleem Mahabir
In The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privilege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), Philippe-Richard Marius recasts the world-historical significance of the Saint-Domingue Revolution to investigate the twinned significance …
Critical Theory January 2, 2023

Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age

Colin Barker, Gareth Dale and Neil Davidson

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
The last several decades have seen a mass consolidation of wealth among a few, the rest of the world left to various degrees of dispossession. On top of this …
World Affairs December 28, 2022

Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations

Revisiting Turkish Modernity

Eren Duzgun

Hosted by Geoffrey Gordon
Western interpretations of the Ottoman age of reform and the Turkish Republic often evaluate these histories against an idealized, essentialized narrative of the European history, in which a triumphant bourgeois …
Critical Theory December 25, 2022

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 3 of 3

An Interview with Bryan D. Palmer

Bryan D. Palmer

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Part 3 of 3 parts. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first decade …
Critical Theory December 24, 2022

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 2 of 3

An Interview with Bryan D. Palmer

Bryan D. Palmer

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Part 2 of 3 parts. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first decade …
Critical Theory December 23, 2022

The Emergence of Trotskyism in the United States: Part 1 of 3

An Interview with Bryan D. Palmer

Bryan D. Palmer

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Part 1 of 3 parts. In the spring of 1942, James P. Cannon, the founder of American Trotskyism, gave a series of lectures in New York on the first decade …
British Studies December 23, 2022

The London Revolution 1640 – 1643

Class Struggles in 17th-Century England

Michael Sturza

Hosted by Caleb Zakarin
The London Revolution 1640-1643: Class Struggles in 17th-Century England examines the political upheavals that occurred during the reign of Charles the First in London and England more broadly. Michael Sturza offers …
Critical Theory December 18, 2022

Marx's Wager

Das Kapital and Classical Sociology

Thomas M. Kemple

Hosted by Stephen Dozeman
Marx’s Capital looms large today, a century and a half after first publication, a massive tome that attempts to document and map out the dynamics of a society consumed by …
Critical Theory December 16, 2022

The British Marxist Historians

Harvey J. Kaye

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential contemporary academic traditions in history and social …
Politics & Polemics November 14, 2022

Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism

Rethinking Justice, Legality and Rights

Igor Shoikhedbrod

Hosted by Lavinia Stan
Is Marx relevant today, after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe? Is Marx’s political theory compatible with individual rights? You will be surprised to learn that the answers are …
High Theory October 4, 2022

Standpoint Theory

A Discussion with Soham Sen

Soham Sen

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Soham Sen talks about standpoint theory, a method of understanding the ways in which individual and collective experience influence public discourses. He begins from its origins in the civil rights …