Tag: Marxist Theory
Tolkien’s Deplorable Cultus
Robert T. Tally Jr. reads Tolkien’s corpus with the tools of Marxist literary criticism, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy writer’s rightist fans.
Abstract Models, Concrete Frictions
Samuel Fisher probes the limits of Søren Mau’s recent book Mute Compulsion.
Reproducing Life Through Capital
Pedro M. Rey-Araújo offers a critical amendment to social reproduction’s idealization of life-making practices through an analysis of capital’s logic.
Prelude to a New Imperial Order?
Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber challenge the received view of US global dominance with a dialectical conception of our multipolar geopolitical order.
On Economic Compulsion
Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter review Werner Bonefeld’s new book on the social constitution of economic compulsion in capitalism.
Social Reproduction Theory and Disability
What then might those committed to social reproduction theory as a mode of concretizing Marxism be able to say regarding “disability”?
Realizing Renewable Power’s Potential Means Combating Capital
Simon Pirani systematically takes on ecomodernist approaches to socialist strategy, which, he argues, are fundamentally antithetical to any left project.
On Profitability and Reforming Capitalism
Michael Roberts responds to Seth Ackerman’s sprawling critique of Robert Brenner.
On the Economic Power of Capital
Hugo de Camps interviews Søren Mau on his new book Mute Compulsion, a groundbreaking new reading of Marx’s theory of economic power.
Neither Productivism nor Degrowth
Ståle Holgersen moves us beyond the stale impasse between degrowth and eco-modernist approaches to eco-socialist strategy.