Uncovering Marx's Yet Unpublished Writings

When Lawrence Krader published his historic transcription of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks 25 years ago, a new window was opened into Marx’s thought.  What in published form had become 250 pages of notes by Marx on Lewis Henry Morgan and other...

Lenin’s Encounter with Hegel after Eighty Years

As I write these lines, it is 80 years since the outbreak of World War I in August 1914 began to undermine liberalism’s modernist faith in unilinear progress toward the well-being of all. Established Marxism, itself influenced philosophically by neo-Kantian and...

Derrida on Marx: (Re)turn or De(con)struction?

Ever since he stunned an international Marx conference in Riverside, California last year with his call for a return to Marx, something which also marked a major “turn” in his thought, Jacques Derrida’s book The Specters of Marx has been eagerly...