November 21st, 2002
Marx’s Late Writings on Non-Western and Precapitalist Societies
January 01st, 2001
Review of John Rees, Algebra of Revolution
January 01st, 2001
Levine on the Marxian Tradition: From Idealist Roots to Nationalism and Internationalism
In a careful reading that constitutes one of the best non-Marxist accounts of Marx, Donald N. Levine places Marx inside the German idealist tradition. However, he understates his continuing debt to G. W. F. Hegel. While pointing correctly to Marx’s internationalism and cosmopolitanism, Levine underplays Marx’s substantial writings on nationalism, race, and ethnicity. Published in […]
January 01st, 2000
Review of Congrès Marx International, proceedings of 1995 Actuel Marx conference in Paris
January 01st, 1999
Julius Nyerere, African socialist
With the death of Julius Nyerere, the world has lost one of the foremost proponents of African Socialism. Nyerere's humanist vision known as UJAMAA influenced several generations of Africans as well as many throughout the world concerned with African liberation.
December 01st, 1998
The Young Erich Fromm's Contribution to Criminology
September 01st, 1998
On Cornelius Castoriadis
The death of Cornelius Castoriadis in December 1997 evoked respectful front-page coverage in France’s leading newspapers. Writing in Le Monde (30 Dec. 1997), the well-known sociologist Edgar Morin eulogized his friend, singling out Castoriadis’s concept of autonomy, in which the latter stressed moments in history when society carved out autonomy from the state. For Castoriadis, […]
January 01st, 1998
On Marx, Hegel, and Critical Theory in Postwar Germany: A Conversation with Iring Fetscher
– Published in Studies in East European Thought, 50: 1-28, 1998 – PDF – Published in Chinese in World Philosophy, No. 3 (2012), trans. by Jin Shou-tie – PDF
June 01st, 1997
Maximilien Rubel, 1905-1996, Libertarian Marx Editor
May 01st, 1997
Uncovering Marx's Yet Unpublished Writings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 anthropologists which he had compiled in his last years, 1880-81, showed us as never before a Marx concerned as much with gender relations and with non-Western societies such as India, pre-Colombian Mexico, and the Australian aborigines, as well as ancient Ireland, as he was with the emancipation of the industrial [...]