Marxism therefore rests on a conceptual incoherence that renders the ‘higher’ society to which it aspires an indefensible social and political goal. Such, in essence, is the argument at the centre of ...

Global Marxism is an engaging look at the creative breadth of Marxism in the national-liberation era, but needed more critical reflection on its limitations, argues Dominic Alexander The revolutionary ...

Instead, Marxism is a method we use to help understand the world. As such, it has developed since Marx’s time. Marxism is a body of thought. At the time, Marx worked closely with his ...

How did Marxism become Marxism? A new book examines a set of thinkers and activists who helped transform a set of radical ideas into a political tradition. In the years leading up to the outbreak ...

The journal "Rethinking Marxism" hosted a conference from 12/5 through 12/8 on "Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism." Held at the University of Amherst in Massachusetts, it revealed ...

Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s Hegemony and Socialist Strategy footnote 1 and Norman Geras’s lengthy review article (‘Post-Marxism’, nlr 163) raise issues which are at the heart of the ongoing ...

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Tory MP Miriam Cates has claimed that “cultural Marxism [is] destroying our children’s souls” during a speech at this week’s National Conservatism Conference. But what is “cultural Marxism” and is it ...

War for Marxism is not exactly a concept, but it is certainly a problem.* While Marxism could not invent a concept of war, it could re-create it, so to speak – that is, introduce the question of war ...

Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after the 19th century German philosopher and economist Karl Marx. His work examines the historical effects of capitalism on labor ...

Marxism 2025 is a festival of socialist ideas taking place from Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 July in Shoreditch, London. It brings together meetings, speakers, debates, live music, a culture tent ...