News & announcements from ASA Marxist Section members
Please join us in congratulating our distinguished section members who have been elected this year to serve in various positions as listed below: Chair-Elect: Dr. Hannah Holleman, Amherst College Council Member: Dr. Daniel Auerbach, University of Utah Council Member: Dr. Michael McCarthy, Marquette University Student Representative: Ms. Karen Xuan Zhang [...]
Martha E. Gimenez, Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction, has just been published by Brill, in the Historical Materialism Book Series. It is an anthology of articles and book chapters published Gimenez between 1975 and 2009. It also includes two chapters written especially for the book, one on Intersectionality and [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT OF FACULTY VACANCY Assistant Professor of Sociology (Tenure-track) The Division of Social Sciences at Maryville College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology position beginning in August 2019. Candidates are expected to have research and teaching strengths in social scientific methods, including both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Preference is given [...]
Soheil Asefi, a section member writes about the rise of neo-liberal ideology in worker and student councils in Iran. Check out their article below! https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/10/31/the-formation-of-workers-councils-in-the-abode-of-the-islamic-republics-chicago-boys-and-the-striving-of-democracy-promoter-vultures-in-iran/
We are delighted to announce a relaunch of the Marxist Sociology Blog! The blog – which now has a new editorial team – is a public sociology blog aimed at publishing Marxist theory, research, commentary and debate for a general public audience. We will be regularly publishing short articles (around 1,000 words each) in accessible language with minimal academic jargon. We aim to bring you short articles summarizing cutting-edge research and theory from Marxist scholars. We also provide a forum for debate among Marxists and those who wish to engage Marxism. Much of the work published here will be commissioned by our editorial team, but we will consider publishing unsolicited articles.
The Marxist Section and Labor & Labor Movements Section are holding a joint reception. Both sections will announce their award winners there. In addition, we are co-sponsoring a film and panel to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike, Dr. Martin Luther King’s last struggle.
The Marxist Section hosts three sessions and a Business Meeting at the 2018 ASA meeting in Philadelphia. The sessions include "Open Topic on Marxist Sociology," "Capitalism and Its Crises: Economic, Political, Ecological," and Roundtables.
In 2018 the Marxist Section elected a new Chair, two new Council members, and gave awards to six of its members for outstanding work.
This article examines the US political process and the duopoly party system within a vast array of state strategies and elite manipulation. It contends that analyses of the political process as a real engine of change and that significant differences within the two-party system are flawed because they do not account that they serve as mechanisms for how power and dominance in maintained and reproduced.
Central to this argument is the idea that segments of the population, including some of the most exploited and oppressed, derive material and ideological benefit from the misery associated with the inequalities that are rooted in the current established social order. It is this complexity that demands an explanation that can move beyond simple dichotomies (e.g., elite vs. non-elite) to a greater understanding to how individuals collaborate with a system that is rooted in inequality. This article examines one of the ways that the U.S. state facilitates the incorporation of millions of individuals into the rank-and-file of policing, correctional, national security, and military organizations. Coercive occupations are deeply embedded in U.S. society and contribute to a way of life for millions as premier job suppliers. Yet, allegiance cannot be reduced to economic motives and interests, because loyalty is also culturally contrived.