ABOUT DR. ANDERSON
Kevin B. Anderson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with courtesy 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
October 20th, 2023
The Middle East and the World After October 7, and Israel’s War on Palestine
The October 7 attack by Hamas militants from Gaza into Israel, across one of the most closely guarded [...]
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July 15th, 2023
France: Anti-Police Uprising of Marginalized Youth Hurls Challenge to the Entire Social Order
In response to the police murder of a 17-year-old youth, Nahel Merzouk, in the banlieue [variously translated as working class [...]
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April 15th, 2023
French Strikes and Popular Mobilizations Continue, Contesting Not Only Retirement Rollback, But Also Police Brutality and Authoritarian Politics
Since January, more-or-less weekly mass labor mobilizations have continued against a new law that would increase the retirement [...]
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February 24th, 2023
Democracy and the White Working Class vs. “Oligarchy” in the South: Insights from Varon’s New History of the Civil War
Elizabeth Varon’s book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, has just come to my attention, [...]
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January 30th, 2023
Millions of French Workers Come Out to Oppose Austerity
In 1920, Lenin wrote of how, in approaching “the decisive battle” against capitalism with any chance of success, [...]
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January 15th, 2023
Will Joseph Ratzinger’s Grim Legacy Outlive Him?
The death of Joseph Ratzinger, who served as Pope Benedict XVI (2005-13), was announced just as I was [...]
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LATEST NEWS
October 31st, 2023
Kevin B. Anderson Received the Career Achievement Award
At the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting In August 2023, Kevin B Anderson received the Career Achievement Award [...]
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January 02nd, 2023
[Published] Woman, Life, Freedom: The Origins of the Uprising in Iran
In March, 1979, urban Iranian women and girls and their male supporters took part in a week of [...]
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March 24th, 2022
The new translation into Tamil of Marx at the Margins
The new translation into Tamil of Marx at the Margins is now available. Tamil Nadu, India: New Century [...]
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November 14th, 2021
The Last Years of Karl Marx: A Conversation between Marcello Musto, Kevin B. Anderson, Himani Banerji & David N. Smith
A BSA Social Theory Study Group Event, 25 October 2021
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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 [...]
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April 24th, 2019
Scholars of Distinction
Sociologist and historian are named 2019 Fellows of the American Council of Learned Societies By Jim Logan Thursday, [...]
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