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Crises and Hegemonic Transitions: From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy Jan 17, 2020

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Crises and Hegemonic Transitions From Gramsci's Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy Lorenzo Fusaro Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics

Crises and Hegemonic Transitions reworks the concept of hegemony at the international level and analyses its relation to world market crises.

China and the US: Inter-Imperial Rivalry and Solidarity from Below Jan 17, 2020

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China and the US Inter-Imperial Rivalry and Solidarity from Below Au Loong Yu Kevin Lin Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International

The intensifying rivalry between the US and China fills the daily news. The US remains the world’s predominant political and economic power, but it now views China’s growing economic influence as a potential geopolitical challenger, leading it adopt Barack Obama’s Pivot to Asia and Donald Trump’s trade war and threats of a new Cold War.

Energy for the People: The Green New Deal and the Technical/Political Potentials of Grid Transformation Jan 17, 2020

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Energy for the People The Green New Deal and the Technical/Political Potentials of Grid Transformation Ashley Dawson Irene Shen Josh Karpoff Lia Soorenian Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Environment

The US electric grid is often described as “the largest machine in the world.” Under a Green New Deal, how could this machine be brought under public ownership and social control - and rapidly re-engineered to eliminate carbon emissions?

The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism Jan 17, 2020

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The People’s Republic of Walmart How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism Michal Rozworski Leigh Phillips Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Economics

Since the demise of the USSR, the mantle of the largest planned economies in the world has been taken up by the likes of Walmart, Amazon and other multinational corporations. For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism.

Forging New Radical Traditions in Europe Jan 17, 2020

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Forging New Radical Traditions in Europe Kate Seidel Daniel Finn Kathleen Brown Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International

Waiting for the Post-post-Soviet: Old and New Challenges to Building a Left in Russia Today
- Kate Seidel

Ireland’s Radical Tradition? The IRA and Left Politics in Modern Ireland
- Daniel Finn

After Aufstehen: Prospects for the German Left
- Kathleen Brown

Critical Perspectives on the Venezuelan Crisis Jan 17, 2020

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Critical Perspectives on the Venezuelan Crisis Gabriel Hetland George Ciccariello-Maher Andreina Torres Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International

As the political, economic, and humanitarian crises in Venezuela continue to unfold amid a protracted power struggle between the Maduro regime and the Juan Guaidó-led opposition, how do we contextualize the current moment and what possibly lies ahead?

Sponsored by the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

Women's Oppression and Care Work Jan 17, 2020

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Women's Oppression and Care Work Marta Baradic Edna Bonhomme Anamarija Šiša Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Women

The relation between political and economic crises and mass female labour migration through history
—Marta Baradic

On the international women's movement in Germany
—Edna Bonhomme

Providing a Marxist-feminist theoretical framework for the understanding of dating practices
—Anamarija Šiša

Critical Perspectives on Law from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century Jan 17, 2020

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Critical Perspectives on Law from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century Camila Vergara Sam Menefee-Libey Rob Hunter Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time Socialism & Marxism

Law and capitalism are co-constitutive. Commodities, property, and the wage relation are all legally constructed. The relations and conditions of production are also elaborated through law, as Marx described in Chapter 10 of Capital. The critique of capitalism and the articulation of socialism are both improved by recognizing that law is a social relation.

The Question That Never Goes Away: Imperialism, Revolution, and the Agrarian Question in East Asia Jan 17, 2020

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The Question That Never Goes Away Imperialism, Revolution, and the Agrarian Question in East Asia Tiffany Yang Harlan Chambers Benjamin Kindler Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International

How China's Communist Party approached taxation, particularly grain extraction, from the late 1930s-early 1940s
—Tiffany Yang

The role of cinema in colonialism-induced ecological change during Japanese rule in Taiwan, 1889-1905
—Harlan Chambers

The Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong, and the challenge of collective labour through the figure of the "small producer"
—Benjamin Kindler

Anti-Communism and "Taliban Governance" in Pakistan Afghanistan Jan 17, 2020

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Anti-Communism and "Taliban Governance" in Pakistan Afghanistan Zenab Ahmed Historical Materialism 2019 (NY): Socialism in Our Time International

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