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
October 27th, 2020
Thoughts on the U.S. Elections: Threat of the Far Right
1) How do you judge things in the run-up to the November elections? What is the political scenery [...]
Read More October 12th, 2020
Indonesia: Mass Strikes Show Intersection of Class, Gender, and Ecology
Over a million people have taken to the streets in Indonesia to protest a neoliberal law that would [...]
Read More September 16th, 2020
What Is Socialism? Answers from a Humanist, Marxist Point of View
In dialectical thought going back to Socrates, it has often been useful to define something by indicating what [...]
Read More July 23rd, 2020
On the Battle of Ideas: Responding to the New World of COVID-19, Economic Crisis, and Anti-Racist Uprisings
This spring, as some countries began to reopen after months of COVID-19 lockdowns, youthful rebellions broke out inside [...]
Read More 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 [...]
Read More May 04th, 2020
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 [...]
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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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