Category: Theory
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Classes and Politics: Common Sense in the Form of Theory
A review of The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn by Vivek Chibber. Harvard University Press, 2022. 224 pp. In the politically contested disciplines – the humanities and … Keep reading »
SR 2022: The Direction Forward
Contributors to the 2022 volume of Socialist Register discuss “Lessons from the Corbyn Project” (James Schneider, Hilary Wainwright), “American Workers and the Left” (Sam Gindin) and “The Evolution of Race … Watch video »
SR 2022: Pandemic Polarizations
Just as the Russia-Ukraine crisis first devolved, and only weeks before the elections in the Philippines, Walden Bello, Jayati Ghosh, and Vishwas Satgar came together with Greg Albo of the … Watch video »
The Hard Right and the Political Parties of Capital
Moderated by Michael Lardner, Marxist Education Project, and introduced by Greg Albo, co-editor of Socialist Register. Ingar Solty: Market Polarization Means Political Polarization Bill Fletcher Jr.: Trump and the Danger … Watch video »
Socialist Register 2022: Crisis of Centrism
Featuring: Greg Albo: An Introduction to “The Crisis of Centrism,” Socialist Register Simon Mohun: “Portrait of Neoliberalism: Rise of the One Percent” Samir Sonti: “The Crisis of US Labor, Past … Watch video »
Socialist Register 2022 Launch: New Polarizations, Old Contradictions
Moderated by Michelle Williams. Panel: Greg Albo is co-editor of Socialist Register, Professor at York University, Toronto, and editor of State Transformations: Classes, Strategy Socialism (2021). Colin Leys is co-editor … Watch video »
Socialist Democracy from Rosa Luxemburg to Today’s Movements
Peter Hudis speaks with Azade Raisdana Thirty years after the fall and after the financial and Corona crises how do you see and evaluate the situation of socialist or communist movement … Watch video »
Know Your Enemy: How to Defeat Capitalism
We must put an end to capitalism. To do that, we must know the enemy – capital. We will never defeat that enemy if we do not understand it – its effects, its strengths and weaknesses. Keep reading »
Lenin’s Socialism – From the Perspective of the Future
There is a great variety of theories and discussions on the views of V. I. Lenin on socialism as well as on his revolutionary praxis, which often leads to chaos … Keep reading »
A Falling Rate of Learning? Commodification and Neoliberal Education
Under neoliberal capitalism, the commodification of education has accelerated. Before the establishment of the current accumulation regime, the educational sector was predominantly controlled by an interventionist state, committed to countercyclical … Keep reading »
Slave or Protagonist? The Worker in Capital
Think of the worker in Marx’s Capital. He sells his capacity to work as a commodity to the capitalist. In the relation of “supremacy and subordination” of capital over wage-labourers … Keep reading »
Reimagining Socialist Parties and Practice
Presentation at the Left Forum-Socialist Register memorial forum, “Beyond the Socialist Impasse: Remembering Leo Panitch,” June 5, 2021. I am sure that no one, especially those of us who knew … Keep reading »