Professor of Sociology, Political Science & Feminist Studies,
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara
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ABOUT DR. ANDERSON
Kevin B. Anderson is Professor of Sociology at University of California, Santa Barbara, with appointments in Feminist Studies and Political Science. He is the author of Lenin, Hegel, and Western Marxism (1995), Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with Janet Afary, 2005), and Marx at the Margins (2010/2016). Among his edited volumes are the Rosa Luxemburg Reader (with Peter Hudis, 2004) and the Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence (with Russell Rockwell, 2012). He writes regularly for New Politics, The International Marxist-Humanist, and Jacobin on Marxism and on international politics and radical movements in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
LATEST ARTICLES
June 12th, 2020
Notes on the Black Lives Matter Uprising in Historical and Global Context
This spring, as some countries began to reopen after months of COVID-19 lockdowns, youthful rebellions broke out inside [...]
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Notes on Lenin at 150: Theoretical Preparation for Revolution in the Time of COVID-19
Two weeks ago, April 22, was the 150th anniversary V.I. Lenin’s birth. What does it mean to consider [...]
Read More January 14th, 2020
Sudan’s Revolution of 2019: At the Crossroads of Africa and the Arab World
The Sudanese uprising has unfolded in a slow, determined manner, beginning last December. By April it drove out [...]
Read More January 09th, 2020
The Bigger Picture
Expert on social and political theory and on global social issues highlights important aspects of political climate and [...]
Read More January 03rd, 2020
Trump’s Reckless Assassination of Iranian General Is an Act of War
The Middle East and the world woke up on the morning of Friday, January 3 to the shocking [...]
Read More December 19th, 2019
Self-Mobilized Hirak Movement Persists in Algeria after Phony Election
What if an entrenched elite held a presidential election featuring some of its longtime members, but no one [...]
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LATEST BOOKS
LATEST NEWS
September 14th, 2019
Portuguese (Brazil) edition of Marx at the Margins
Marx nas margens nacionalismo, etnias e sociedades não ocidentais [ ESTE LIVRO ENCONTRA-SE EM PRÉ-VENDA E ESTARÁ DISPONÍVEL A [...]
Read More April 24th, 2019
Scholars of Distinction
Sociologist and historian are named 2019 Fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies By Jim Logan Thursday, [...]
Read More April 12th, 2019
Haluk Yurtsever, “Hegel ve Lenin Üzerine Kışkırtıcı Düşünceler [Thought Provoking Claims on Hegel and Lenin]”
(Turkish) Haluk Yurtsever, “Hegel ve Lenin Üzerine Kışkırtıcı Düşünceler [Thought Provoking Claims on Hegel and Lenin],” Radikal, Istanbul daily [...]
Read More April 12th, 2019
Didier Epsztajn, “Contre le déterminisme, prendre en compte les contradictions présentes au sein de chaque structure sociale”
Didier Epsztajn, “Contre le déterminisme, prendre en compte les contradictions présentes au sein de chaque structure sociale,” Entre les lignes [...]
Read More April 12th, 2019
Emmanuel Barot, “Classe, nation, race : à partir d’un ouvrage de Kevin B. Anderson”
Emmanuel Barot, “Classe, nation, race : à partir d’un ouvrage de Kevin B. Anderson,” Révolution Permanente: Site d’information du [...]
Read More June 28th, 2017
Just Published – For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics
Today, anti-humanism is a dominant, even definitive, feature of contemporary theory. This book sets out to challenge this [...]
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