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Historical Materialism is a Marxist journal, appearing four times a year, based in London. Founded in 1997, it asserts that, notwithstanding the variety of its practical and theoretical articulations, MarxismMore constitutes the most fertile conceptual framework for analysing social phenomena, with an eye to their overhaul. In our selection of materials, we do not favour any one tendency, tradition or variant. Marx demanded the ‘merciless criticism of everything that exists’: for us that includes Marxism itself.

Marxism is nothing if not ‘interdisciplinary’, or, put differently, a theory of totality. The relations of production are dominant relations that exert influence across the whole social matrix. It makes no sense to plug away in one small area of the curriculum without exposing insights to other researchers, in order to probe further their meaningfulness and value. The task of the Marxist critic is to offer a self-reflexive account of historical differentiations between areas of knowledge, without naturalising them or reifying their separation. To this end, the journal opposes the compartmentalisation of knowledge. Given the pressures of careers and the institutionalisation of researchers, this is no easy task. Historical Materialism welcomes contributions that cut across disciplines and evade academic jargon.

Historical Materialism has published enough grey-beards in the past and will continue to do so. We are, however, optimistic that our diagnosis of real-existing world conditions, with the recurrent upsurge of class antagonisms and the continual exertions of imperial violence, produce ever new Marxist constituencies. Their hither-to unheard voices are welcome in our journal. Furthermore, Historical Materialism, as proper to a Marxist forum, cultivates international contacts, giving room to analysts from across the world, including non-Anglophone countries. We attempt to host a worldwide scrutiny as our contribution to a denunciation of capitalism worldwide.

You can also stay in touch via our website historicalmaterialism.org, via the email list (send an email to historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk) and follow us on Twitter @histmat
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HM Online 2020 – Mid-Week
Facing a week of lockdown with nothing but work? Wish you could connect with your comrades and discuss the telling issues of the day? Let HM Online 2020 provide the critical andMore comradely stimulation you need!!!
Tuesday at 15.00 – Leftovers Virtual: Reading Marx and Marxism in the Age of Uprisings and Pandemics
Aaron Jaffe, Jules Joanne Gleeson, Isobel Plowright and Jody Cummings
Wednesday at 14.00 GMT – Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks
Rob Jackson, Peter Thomas, Anne Showstack Sassoon, Francesca Antonini & Lorenzo Fusaro
Wednesday at 17.00 GMT – Whither Real Abstraction?
The Radical Dyad of… More

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HM Online 2020 | Historical Materialism

Programme You can download the timetable below: HM_Online_2020_programme All panel times GMT (London) Registration closes an hour before the session begins 5th November – Thursday 18.30 Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire – A Discussion with David McNally David McNally, Maia Pal &...
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Join us for this book launch of 'Turkey’s New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion' The state in Turkey has been in a proce...
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Historical Materialism – Volume 28 (2020)
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HM Online 2020: 'Revisiting Gramsci’s Notebooks' book launch - REGISTER NOW
Wednesday 11th November at 2pm GMT
Book launch with Robert Jackson, Peter D.More Thomas, Anne Showstack Sassoon, Francesca Antonini & Lorenzo Fusaro
This panel will launch Revisiting Gramsci's Notebooks (Brill / Haymarket), a rich collection of studies addressing the thought of Antonio Gramsci. Based on thorough analyses of Gramsci's texts, these interdisciplinary investigations engage with ongoing debates in different fields of study. They are exciting evidence of the enduring capacity of Gramsci's thought to generate and nurture innovative inquiries across diverse… More

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HM Online 2020: Whither Real Abstraction?
Wednesday 11th November at 5pm GMT Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/127440113811A panel with Katerina Kolozova, Alberto Toscano and Conrad Hamilton. In theMore past decade or so, the notion of real abstraction – hitherto a relatively marginal item in the Marxist and principally associated with the critical project of Alfred Sohn-Rethel – has played an increasingly prominent role in theoretical debate. Of particular note has been the way in which the thesis whereby capitalist domination operates through abstractions that are not in our heads, while originating in the Marxian critique of political economy, has cut across the fields of… More

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Tuesday 10th November at 3pm GMT
Leftovers is proud to present a virtual panel, following in the theme of our well-received 2019 panel, on reading Marx andMore classical Marxist theory in the context of the current conjuncture. Far from a mere detached "return to Marx", Leftovers seeks to recuperate and renovate our analysis by way of revisiting bedrock communist praxis. Among our papers are a two part engagement on Marx's work on the Jewish question, followed by a reconceptualization of Marx's concept of "So Called Primitive Accumulation". Leftovers panelists all share a queer socialist-feminist reading of the Marxist tradition, focusing on… More

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HM Online 2020 – the First Weekend

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Locked Down? Looking for comradely discourse and critical thinking? Let HM Online 2020 raise your spirits!!!More Go to the programme - http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/HM_Online_2020_programme

Saturday at 13.00 GMT – Meet the Editors of Historical Materialism!

Saturday at 15.00 GMT – a panel celebrating Engels at 200

Saturday at 18.30 GMT – a panel reflecting on the 2020 US Election - Bourgeois Democracy in Crisis

Sunday 14.00 GMT - Notes from Below: Worker Writing and Class Composition

Sunday 18.00 GMT – A Discussion of Mike Goldfield’s The Southern Key: Class, Race and Radicalism in the… More

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HM Online 2020 | Historical Materialism

Programme You can download the timetable below: HM_Online_2020_programme All panel times GMT (London) Registration closes an hour before the session begins 5th November – Thursday 18.30 Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire – A Discussion with David McNally David McNally, Maia Pal &...
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HM Online 2020: The 2020 US Election: Bourgeois Democracy in Crisis REGISTER NOW at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/127434474945Saturday 7th November - 6.30pm GMT With Kali Akuno, Meagan Day &, Peter DruckerMore The 2020 US election may be the biggest crisis of bourgeois democracy since the defeat of Black Reconstruction. The past several years and weeks have been rich in lessons about the nature of the US state and its electoral system. Issues that the panelists will discuss include: the ongoing far right threat and the changing character of the Republican Party; the nature of the Democratic Party and what the left can and cannot use it for; the roots of the current political crisis in the… More

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HM Online 2020: Meet the editors - Register now
Register now for this opportunity to meet a group of the Editors of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory Journal. This session will clarifyMore the editorial process, discuss the project of the journal and give advice to authors on publication in the journal. Editors available will include: Panagiotis Sotiris, Maia Pal, Miriyam Aouragh, Esther Leslie, Rob Knox, Peter Thomas, Sebastian Budgen.
Saturday 7th November at 1pm
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HM Online 2020: Meet the editors

Meet the editors and discuss potential publication in the journal.
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HM Online 2020: Engels at 200 - REGISTER NOW
Register online at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/127433433831
Saturday 7th November at 3pm GMT
With Michael Roberts and Camilla Royle
Engels and the Dialectics ofMore Nature - Michael Roberts
Marx is often accused of what has been called a Promethean vision of human social organisation, namely that human beings, using their superior brains, knowledge and technical prowess, can and should impose their will on the rest of the planet or what is called 'nature' – for better or worse.
On the 200th anniversary of his birth, Engels too must be saved from the same charge.Actually, Engels was well ahead of Marx (yet again) in connecting the destruction and… More

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