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Historical Materialism
Interviews with scholars of historical materialism about their new books.
February 16, 2026
Marxism, Social Movements and Collective Action
Marxists have an obvious interest in understanding social movements. Less obvious, even with the voluminous theoretical archives at hand, is how to pu…
January 14, 2026
In Stalin's Shadow
Most people on the contemporary left see Stalin as an unfortunate stain on the history of the global left, a part of the historical process that w…
December 30, 2025
Immanent Critiques
The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By…
December 1, 2025
The Renaissance of Marxist Studies
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in academic research in Marxism and related fields, and many researchers have been stepping up t…
October 20, 2025
The Antagonistic Principle
What does it mean to be a political subject? This is one of the key questions asked by Massimo Modonesi in The Antagonistic Principle: Marxism and Po…
September 3, 2025
Slavery and Capitalism
David McNally's Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History (U California Press, 2025)presents the first systematic Marxist account of the capitalis…
August 18, 2025
Pure Excess
Todd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise …
August 18, 2025
Free Gifts
Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman w…
August 11, 2025
Bohemian Bolsheviks
For several decades now, Alan Wald has been thoroughly documenting the history of the literature and cultural output of the American left. While h…
July 30, 2025
Marx's Wager
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 …
May 22, 2025
Universal Prostitution and Modernist Abstraction
Join me for conversation with Dr. Jaleh Mansoor (Associate Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History, Visual Art, and Theory, Universi…
May 6, 2025
Jurisdictional Accumulation
With rigorous attention to history and empire, Maïa Pal's Jurisdictional Accumulation: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires, and Capital (Cambridge…
March 15, 2025
Pacification
Today I talked to Mark Neocleous about his new book Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso, 2025). For more than two decades, Neocle…
February 25, 2025
A History of Capitalist Transformation
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘li…
January 17, 2025
The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution
The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest and urgency to questions of racial oppression and emancipation. We’ve now had about a decade of …
January 7, 2025
Marxism and America
If the United States has been so hostile to Marxism, what accounts for Marxism's recurrent attractiveness to certain Americans? Marxism and America: N…
December 29, 2024
The British Marxist Historians
The British Marxist Historians, originally published in 1995, remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most influential…
December 13, 2024
Mixing Pop and Politics
From rock & roll to contemporary pop, Mixing Pop and Politics: A Marxist History of Popular Music (Repeater, 2024) is a timely and original exploratio…
December 6, 2024
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital
Streaming Music, Streaming Capital (Duke University Press, 2024) provides a much-needed study of the political economy of music streaming, drawing fr…
December 5, 2024
Global Marxism
For much of the twentieth century, the ideas of Karl Marx provided the backbone for social justice around the world. But today the legacy of Marxism i…