Category: Theory
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Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian
Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left. His name evokes dusty paperbacks passed … Keep reading »
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The Economic and Political Thoughts of Ernesto Che Guevara
The early years of the Cuban revolution leading up to the formation of the Communist Party in 1965 and the departure of Ernesto Che Guevara for international missions witnessed rapid … Keep reading »
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Book Launch: Law at Work, with Harry Glasbeek
Book launch of Harry Glasbeek’s Law at Work: The Coercion and Co-option of the Working Class, in Toronto, May 2024. Author and renowned legal scholar Harry Glasbeek unpacks how law … Watch video »
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Lenin on the Centenary of His Death: Seven Reasons not to Leave Lenin to Our Enemies
Michael Brie invites the contemporary Left to consider Lenin’s legacy in new ways on the occasion of the centenary of Lenin’s death. Keep reading »
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Capital and Resistance: A Review of Socialist Register 2023
Socialist Register 2023: Capital and Politics provides what the editors, Greg Albo, Nicole Aschoff, and Alfredo Saad-Filho, describe in the Preface as “a careful accounting of the organizational means by … Keep reading »
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No Politics But Class Politics: Class, Identity, Inequality
In his recent book, Poverty, by America, Matthew Desmond writes, “Poverty might consume your life, but it’s rarely embraced as an identity. It’s more socially acceptable today to disclose a … Keep reading »
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The State and the Future of Socialism
We are in the midst of a class war. That’s not unusual. There is always class war in capitalism – although sometimes it is hidden and sometimes there is the … Keep reading »
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Canadian Unions and the State: Losing Ground, Moving On
There have now been four editions of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023), the first dating back to 1985, and it … Keep reading »
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Capitalism and Community: The Tragedy of Atomism
Given that the immanent drive and constant tendency of capital is to atomize the working class, what are the effects of this tendency? For the atomized worker, all other workers … Keep reading »
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In Memory of G. M. Tamás: I Went to the Nth Degree
G.M. Tamás (November 28, 1948 – January 15, 2023) was a comrade of many socialists in Canada. He served as a guide to political developments in Eastern Europe, and particularly … Keep reading »
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Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Statism, and the New Finance Capital
This symposium at Carleton University, looked at the legacy of Leo Panitch’s scholarship, education, and activism, featuring roundtables and a keynote address by Institute of Political Economy (IPE) visiting professor, … Watch video »
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Capitalism Against Labour: Can We Re-Invent Work?
Mike Yates is a long time Marxist, socialist writer and analyst, and one of the editors of Monthly Review. Over the years he has written extensively about capitalism but particularly … Keep reading »