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Historical Materialism
Interviews with scholars of historical materialism about their new books.
August 28, 2024
Marx's Literary Style
In Marx’s Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx’s work results from a fai…
August 4, 2024
The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky
Returning to the New Books Network is Doug Greene, here to discuss his book The New Reformism and the Revival of Karl Kautsky (Routledge, 2024). S…
July 11, 2024
Waiting for the Cool Moon
In Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire (Duke UP, 2024) Wendy Matsumura interrogates the erasure of c…
June 22, 2024
Infinite Greed
Marxism and psychoanalysis have a rich and complicated relationship to one another, with countless figures and books written on the possible inter…
June 20, 2024
Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology
Can capitalism be made ecologically sustainable? Can it be good for women? What theoretical approaches help us to grapple with these questions in ways…
June 8, 2024
The Double Shift
Even as the rewards of work decline and its demands on us increase, many people double-down on their commitment to wage slavery – working harder, doin…
May 18, 2024
Embracing Alienation
The left views alienation as something to be resisted or overcome, but could it actually form the basis of our emancipation? We often think of our exi…
March 20, 2024
Lenin's Childhood
On January 21, 1924 and at the age of 53, Vladimir Lenin passed away. We’ve now had a century of a world without him, but also a century of a worl…
March 19, 2024
Animals and Capital
In the 20th century, capitalist animal agriculture emerged with a twofold mission: to ruthlessly exploit animals for their labour time and enlarge hum…
March 17, 2024
Immediacy
What is the status of art and culture in a world dominated by apps, algorithms, and influencers? Anna Kornbluh’s newest book Immediacy, Or the Style o…
January 5, 2024
Marx for Cats
At the outset of Marx for Cats: A Radical Bestiary (Duke UP, 2023), Leigh Claire La Berge declares that “all history is the history of cat struggle.” …
December 31, 2023
The Politics of Transindividuality
Many major political questions today revolve around questions of human nature; what sort of people we are and what sort of people we're capable of bei…
November 23, 2023
Lenin
Returning to the New Books Network today is Paul Le Blanc, here to discuss his new book Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution (Pluto…
November 19, 2023
The Death of the Millennial Left
In The Death of the Millennial Left: Interventions: 2006-2022 (Sublation Media, 2023), Chris Cutrone investigates how and why the Millennial Left did …
November 19, 2023
Archaism and Actuality
In Archaism and Actuality: Japan and the Global Fascist Imaginary (Duke UP, 2023) eminent Marxist historian Harry Harootunian explores the formation o…
November 15, 2023
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…
September 18, 2023
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation
Lenora Hanson's The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation (Stanford UP, 2022) provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romant…
August 8, 2023
Wallerstein 2.0
Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems theory can help to better understand and describe developments of the 21st century. The contributors of Wallerste…
August 2, 2023
Jesus
Alongside their collective acumen in traditional historical-critical and social-scientific approaches to the New Testament, James Crossley and Robert …
June 9, 2023
Stalinism and the Dialectics of Saturn
As capitalism’s popularity wanes and socialism’s popularity increases, there remains a massive shadow cast by the history of actually existing soc…