Editorial Perspective: âThe Mute Compulsion of Economic Relationsâ: Towards a Marxist Theory of the Abstract and Impersonal Power of Capital. SĂžren Mau Symposium Radical Historicism or Rules of Reproduction? New Debates in Political Marxism An Introduction to the Symposium on Knafo and Teschke. MaĂŻa Pal Political Marxism and the Rules of Reproduction…
The Origins of Capitalism is a central area of intellectual concern within Marxism. The discussion (often referred to as the Transition Debate) extends back to the 19th Century, and spans a number of disciplines and theoretical perspectives (in some cases discussed as a transition to âindustrialâ or âmarketâ society). A full and comprehensive…
The Center for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) and the Political Marxism Research Group will be hosting a presentation by Dr. Pedro Salgado Dutra (Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Economics and International Relations at the Federal University in UberlĂąndia, Minas Gerais, Brazil), on âAgency and Geopolitics â Brazilian State-Formation…
The Center for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) and the Political Marxism Research Group are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Dr. Maia Pal (Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University), on  âJurisdictional Accumulation & Extraterritoriality: An Early Modern History of Law, Empires and Capitalâ. The talk will be held on Monday…
The Center for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) and the Political Marxism Research Group are pleased to invite you to a presentation by Javier Moreno ZacarĂ©s (Early Career Fellow, University of Warwick), on âThe Political in Motion: Towards a Historicist Narrative of the Spanish Crashâ. The talk will be held on Wednesday, 22 May, 11-1pm…
Political Marxist George Comninel has recently published a collection of essays under the title Alienation and Emancipation in the work of Karl Marx. The book is part of the broader series Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, which has published other titles inspired by the political Marxist tradition. The book can be found in the publisherâs page here. More…
âFrom Feudal Stagnation to Capitalist Dynamism: Uneven Development, Late Development, and Uneven and Combined Developmentâ â public lecture delivered by Robert Brenner at the conference âUneven and Combined Development for the 21st Centuryâ (University of Glasgow, September 2019). Here, Brenner summarises his approach to the history of capitalism…
Xavier Lafrance teaches political science at the UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă MontrĂ©al. With Charles Post, he co-edited the book Case Studies in the Origins of Capitalism (Palgrave 2018) and he is the author of The Making of Capitalism in France. Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914 (Brill…
The latest issue of New Left Review opens with an essay by Robert Brenner on the Covid-19 bailouts in the United States: Escalating Plunder. The article can be found here.
