Historical Materialism Journal
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Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly. https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
Now announced: Call for Papers for 'Radical Assembly', 22–24 April 2027, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), New York City.
Radical Assembly (22-24 April 2027, NYC) - Historical Materialism
Radical Assembly wants to offer the stage to explore these questions by creating a comradely and egalitarian space of dialogue for Marxists. Following the legacy of the Socialist Scholars Conference a...
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Check out the interview Santiago and I did with Hans-Peter Gruber about his biography of Felix Weil: on Argentina, marxism, revolution, the Frankfurt school, and Judaism. What a life he led! I’m jealous.
Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · yesterdayNow online: 'An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School' by Jacob Blumenfeld and Santiago M. Roggerone.
'Social Constitution and Fetishistic Social Domination is a path-breaking book sure to provide new insights for seasoned critics of political economy as well as intrepid first-timers.'
JSW@wilsonj.bsky.social · yesterdayI reviewed Chris O’Kane’s new book for Marx and Philosophy Review of Books. The short of it is this is important scholarship that sets many Marxist debates on new terrain. Go check out the review to see what you might learn. marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2276...
Now online: 'An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School' by Jacob Blumenfeld and Santiago M. Roggerone.
An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School - Historical Materialism
Felix Weil’s most lasting contribution to the culture of the 20th century was certainly the Institute for Social Research. An institute for Marxist research and teaching was a new and innovative insti...
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Last two of ten rough cover designs, to be published autumn 2026 for the paperback edition of the Historical Materialism Book Series by Haymarket Books. They eventually will be seen here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/... and here: www.haymarketbooks.org/series_colle...
Second four of ten rough cover designs, to be published autumn 2026 for the paperback edition of the Historical Materialism Book Series by Haymarket Books. They eventually will be seen here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/... and here: www.haymarketbooks.org/series_colle...
First of four of ten rough cover designs, to be published autumn 2026 for the paperback edition of the Historical Materialism Book Series by Haymarket Books. They eventually will be seen here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-series/... and here: www.haymarketbooks.org/series_colle...
Now online: 'Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important' by Paramjit Singh.
Why Talking About the Oil-Dollar Nexus Is Important - Historical Materialism
The persistence of the dollar’s role as world money after the collapse of the Bretton Woods system raises a puzzle: how does a currency continue to function as world money even when the issuing countr...
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Now online: 'Re-enchanting the Moving Image: On Julia Alekseyeva’s *Antifascism and the Avant-Garde*' by Alexander Billet.
Re-enchanting the Moving Image: On Julia Alekseyeva’s Antifascism and the Avant-Garde - Historical Materialism
There was a time when the works of Agnes Varda, Chris Marker, and Matsumoto Toshio were lauded as innovative and revelatory well outside the ranks of film school aesthetes and underground video stores...
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In case you missed it, Phil A. Neel has just published the final installment of his Soundtrack to Hellworld on Substack. Take a listen whilst you delve into his tome!
The Planetary Factory | Phil A. Neel | Substack
An archive, blog, and cartographic workshop examining the physical and political landscapes produced by global value chains. Click to read The Planetary Factory, by Phil A. Neel, a Substack publicatio...
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David Mabb@davidmabb.bsky.social · 4mo ago• Publisher/series: Haymarket Books — Historical Materialism book series • Cover art and design: David Mabb • Artwork: Construct 24, Morris, Medway / Rodchenko, Gas • Medium: Wallpaper and montage mounted on canvas • Year: 2006 • Reference: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2813-h...
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series ‘Poetics of Value'. Cover art developed from ‘Dialectical Proposition 9, Vavara Stepanova ‘Textile Design in Black and White’ on ‘Kelmscott Manor’ tea towel’, fabric mounted on plywood, 2020. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2897-p...
Now online: 'Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism' by Etienne Balibar.
Berlinguer and Spinelli: Europe as Dreamt by Italian Eurocommunism - Historical Materialism
The emergence of a new figure of party communism in the period of its final crisis, distinct from both the Soviet and Chinese tendencies, and capable of circumventing the logics of geopolitical “camps...
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Historical Materialism Rio 2026 – Provisional Programme Now Available!
Historical Materialism Rio 2026 - Provisional Programme Now Available! - Historical Materialism
The conference brings together debates on Marxist theory, labour, imperialism, neofascism, feminisms, social reproduction, platform capitalism, artificial intelligence, dependency, ecological crisis, ...
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Quite pleased to be back at @histmat.bsky.social London this November as part of the Workers and Capital stream with a paper titled—“Political Materials”: Between Inquiry and Intervention in Radical Social Movement Publications.
Now online: 'Iran: To Suture the Stateless Subject' by Omid Mehrgan.
Iran: To Suture the Stateless Subject - Historical Materialism
Iran can offer lessons on both colonial patricide and anti-colonial resistance, self-harm and healing. In the coming wars, we need strategies rooted in concepts and faith that can offer not only persp...
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bit.ly/4pg2x9r Panagiotis Sotiris writing for @histmat.bsky.social
Revolutionary Strategy Revisited: Strategic Hypotheses and Open Questions
Abstract This article starts from the continuing pertinence of Daniel Bensaïd’s notion of the ‘strategic hypothesis’. To the hypotheses suggested by Bensaïd, it adds another hypothesis, that of ‘left ...
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Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series ‘Class, Race and the US South’. Cover art is development of Construct 81, William Morris, Golden Lily / Ad Reinhardt, Abstract Painting, acrylic on wallpaper mounted on linen, 2024. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2901-c...
This essay reads US history through a Marxist lens: 1776 establishes bourgeois rule, while the Constitution blocks a fuller democratic revolution and leaves capital's authoritarian power intact. On this view, Trump is less an aberration. By August H. Nimtz in @histmat.bsky.social buff.ly/LknJVyL
The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed - Historical Materialism
The commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids,…
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Now live!: Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market with Adam Hanieh.
Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (with Adam Hanieh)
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Now online: 'The Contemporary Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil in Historical Perspective' by Kristin Ciupa.
The Contemporary Political Economy of Venezuelan Oil in Historical Perspective - Historical Materialism
Following the United States’ military invasion of Venezuela on 3 January 2026, Venezuela’s oil sector is undergoing widespread transformation. US sanctions against Venezuela have been lifted, and refo...
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Now published: Historical Materialism vol.33, no.3. A link to the articles can be found here: brill.com/view/journal...
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series, Lucien Sève’s Thinking with Marx Today. Cover art is a development of ‘Construct 16. J H Dearle for Morris & Co. Compton / Malevich, First Suprematist Textile Design’, paint on wallpaper, 2005. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2893-t...
My response to the generous but critical review of "The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism" by @peterlamb1.bsky.social in @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/response-to-...
Response to Peter Lamb - Historical Materialism
I wanted to express appreciation for Peter Lamb’s generous review of The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism. Lamb’s review stresses the book’s scholarly merits and suggests it will be “very resourc...
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Reposting, now that all of our comrades across The Pond are awake...
Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · last mo.Now online: 'The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed' by August H. Nimtz.
Now online: 'The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed' by August H. Nimtz.
The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed - Historical Materialism
The commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids, un...
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Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Communist Politics in Ireland 1916–1945. Volume 1. Cover art is a development of ‘Painting 25, Long Live the New! Morris & Co. Hand Printed Wallpapers and K. Malevich’s Suprematism’. Acrylic on wallpaper mounted on canvas, 2016.
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development from 'Construct 36, Morris, Willow Boughs / Rodchenko, fabric design'. Pen and paint on wallpaper mounted on canvas, 2006. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2891-m...
Now online: 'The Artist who Took up Arms: Reclaiming the Marxist Vision of Bishnu Prasad Rabha' by Suddhabrata Deb Roy.
The Artist who Took up Arms: Reclaiming the Marxist Vision of Bishnu Prasad Rabha - Historical Materialism
During his years as an underground Marxist guerilla, Rabha produced an impressive and original analyses of the potential Indian revolution from a Marxist perspective, which often remains unappreciated...
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