Distinguished Professor of Sociology,
Courtesy Appointments in Feminist Studies and Political Science.

University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Photo credit: Guimaraes São Paulo

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

The US Election: How Can We Move Forward While Staring Negativity in Its Face?

Summary: Based on remarks at a panel on “Developing Revolutionary Perspectives at a Turning Point,” sponsored by the [...]
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Stop the Spread of Israel’s Genocidal War into Lebanon!

On Israel’s brutal assassinations, its colonialist arrogance, and the limitations of Hezbollah’s model of resistance. Approved as a [...]
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Is It Midnight in the Century or a New Dawn?

[Presented at American Sociological Association meeting, Montreal, August 2024 and partially drawn from introduction to my new book, A [...]
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Unexpected Result of French Election Bars a Neofascist Victory, Constituting a Moral as Well as a Political Victory for the Left

As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock [...]
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Two Dialectical Anniversaries, Lukács and Dunayevskaya

In a fortunate coincidence, the year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of Georg Lukács’s epochal History and Class Consciousness: Studies [...]
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Kissinger, Mao and the Undermining of the 1960s Revolutions: Recalling Raya Dunayevskaya’s Prescient Analysis

The war criminal Henry Kissinger, who died at 100 in December, has been celebrated as a skilled strategist [...]
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LATEST NEWS

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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[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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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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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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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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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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