News & announcements from ASA Marxist Section members
On Behalf of Jason Mueller: Hello comrade(s) @ the Marxist blog, My name is Jason Mueller, and I'm a doctoral candidate in the department of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Two weeks ago I was the very fortunate recipient of the ASA Marxist Section's "Albert Szymanski-T.R. Young Marxist [...]
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.