New book summaries
In developing a summary of my recent book – Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions 1492 – 1790 – I focused on the interplay between capitalism, genocide, and racism. I was struck by how each of four distinct epochs over the past 500 years of [...]
Since Trump’s victory in the November elections, there has been no shortage of variations on Marx’s famous line in The Eighteenth Brumaire: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time [...]
“Rather than London, what if Marx had been in Lahore or Ludhiana in the mid-nineteenth century, and had to explain accumulation from that vantage point?” (62). This is one of the questions that animate a chapter in my book Labors of division: Global capitalism and the emergence of the [...]
For much of the twentieth century, Marx’s ideas inspired anti-colonialism and other movements for social justice worldwide. Although Marx did not theorise revolution in non-European contexts, the application of his methods by southern revolutionaries in various contexts led to the development of Global Marxism, an indigenised Marxism adapted to local [...]
The sudden and dramatic world price hike in 2007-2008, and the near financial crash in the trans-Atlantic world, sparked fears in elite circles that prices would remain high and volatile. With global warming and depleting resources, especially fossil fuels, fears mounted of limits to commodity production. [...]
Since the world crisis of 2008, we have been living in a phase characterized by poor growth, political instability, and geopolitical tension. In this context, large waves of class struggle, like that in 2010-2012 and 2018-2019 along with the rise and advance of far-rights and authoritarianism in the world [...]
As a critical theory of algorithmic capitalism, our contribution is grounded in an emancipation project. We explore paths of reform, revolution, and exit strategies from algorithmic capitalism. We develop a virtue ethics approach to favor collective resistance and emancipation from algorithmic capitalism.
Over the academic year 2020-21, with the world in a state of limbo owing to the COVID-19 crisis, a group of Marxist scholars and activists at the University of Toronto came together to set up a reading group. The initiative may not seem like an unusual or a remarkable [...]
Marx in the Field editor Alessandra Mezzadri writes about the collection’s emphasis on the global reach and potential of Marxian global political economy, reclaiming its relevance for the study of Development.
Once again we find ourselves in moments of economic crisis. As we battle through inflation and rounds of devaluation, thousands of workers around the world have lost their livelihoods. Yet amidst this all, we have seen workers across the globe go on strike and protest. A manifestation of these [...]
