Tag: Marxist Theory
Non-natalism
Leslie Root shows how misguided it is for the left to accept pro-natalist positions. Worry about declining birth rates is based on a misinterpretation of the Total Fertility Rate, and minor social policies promoting higher birth rates will be met with pyrrhic defeat, producing backlash against minorities. The left can rely on better demographic data, and debates on the issue should be informed by reproductive justice, family abolition, and feminism.
On Vivek Chibber, Political Marxism, and the Tradition of Telling Half the Story
Bilal Zahoor challenges Political Marxism’s, and in particular Vivek Chibber’s, reduction of capitalism to its hyperlocal origin in the English countryside.
Beyond the Wage Relation
Hugo de Camps Mora challenges Vivek Chibber’s fetishized account of materialism in favor of the broader and more expansive conception Marx argued for.
After the Last Word
Ryan Breeden reviews Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx’s Revolutionary Roads,” arguing that the book is a valuable step in an ongoing march of theoretical contestation.
Jeffrey Epstein
Andrew Osborne analyzes the social dynamics that made Jeffrey Epstein an indispensable exemplar of the logic of capitalist appropriation before, ultimately, rendering him redundant.
Lube
Inspired by Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism, Alan Sears reflects on the influence of oil-centered capitalist development on our erotic lives.
The Hopes of Disalienation
Isadora Seconi and Sean K. Isaacs review Alan Sears’s Eros and Alienation, looking at the book’s utopian implications for ecosocialism and Marxist theory.
The Price of Freedom
Jordan Daniels reviews Alyssa Battistoni’s Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.
The Continuing Relevance of Marx’s Capital
Charles Post reviews Sungur Savran and E. Ahmet Tonak, In the Tracks of Marx’s Capital: Debates in Marxian Political Economy and Lessons for 21st Century Capitalism.
Queer Is Total, Baby!
Ira Hybris and Ricci Galiano argue that true communist revolution demands embracing the full diversity of the proletariat—queer, racialized, disabled, feminized and beyond—as essential to building a liberatory politics of totality that leaves no one behind.