Historical Materialism Journal@histmat

Leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at University of London, published by Brill, appearing quarterly.

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Twenty-third Annual Conference - Registration is open - Historical Materialism

Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London

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Historical Materialism Journal Special Issue: Strategy now out! VOLUME 33, ISSUE 4, 2025 historicalmaterialism.org/jo…
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Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation: Reading Gramsci Today (with Panagiotis Sotiris)

In the work of Antonio Gramsci, a potential hegemony of the subalte...

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New online Patrick Eiden-Offe: What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations historicalmaterialism.org/ar…

What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations - Historical Materialism

Fascisation as a concept concept is threatening to become so broad that it will hardly still be able to describe anything with precision. Time and again, the connections must be conceptually unfold...

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HM Book Series forthcoming title Vittorio Morfino: Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality. Materials for an Alternative historicalmaterialism.org/bo…
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New online Bob Shenton: Geoffrey Barry Kay (1938 – 2025) historicalmaterialism.org/fi…

Geoffrey Barry Kay (1938 – 2025) - Historical Materialism

In 1975, the political economist Geoff Kay, who died last year, wrote in the Preface to his second book, Development and Underdevelopment: A Marxist Analysis:   … Faced with developments they cannot...

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New online Jan Rehmann: ‘Like a Face Drawn in the Sand at the Edge of the Sea’ – On the Antihumanist Trajectory of Posthumanism historicalmaterialism.org/ar…

‘Like a Face Drawn in the Sand at the Edge of the Sea’ – On the Antihumanist Trajectory of Posthu...

Confronted with this corporate death drive, in a constellation where significant factions of the ruling class are burning up the planet, an effective antifascism needs to take up again the humanist...

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New online Louis Delamangue: Mélenchon and Technofeudalism: What Strategy for the French Left? historicalmaterialism.org/ar…

Mélenchon and Technofeudalism: What Strategy for the French Left? - Historical Materialism

We are sharing a translation of an article by Louis Delamangue from the new French theoretical journal Armes de la critique, associated with the far-left political party Révolution Permanente...

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Now online José Luis Moreno Pestaña: The Althusserian Transformation of Philosophy brill.com/view/journals/hima…

The Althusserian Transformation of Philosophy

Abstract In this text I reconstruct the thinking behind Althusser’s work to define philosophy, which culminated in his 1976 presentation at the Granada conference. I start by exploring how philosophy...

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HM Special Issue on Strategy (vol. 33:4) is now online: historicalmaterialism.org/jo…

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 4, 2025 - Historical Materialism

Historical Materialism — Volume 33 (2025), Issue 4 (August 2026) Special Issue on Strategy Journal: Historical Materialism Online ISSN: 1569-206X · Print ISSN: 1465-4466 · Publisher: Brill Full issue...

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Join us for a discussion of "Inverted World" with Clara Ramas San Miguel, Arash Abazari, Luciana Cadahia, and Rocío Zambrana Online event Wednesday, October 28  •  1 AM - 2:30 AM CST eventbrite.co.uk/e/inverted-…
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Join us for a discussion of "Hegemony, Strategy, Organisation" with Panagiotis Sotiris, Marcus Green, and Massimo Modonesi Online event Friday, September 18  •  12 AM - 1:30 AM CST eventbrite.co.uk/e/hegemony-…
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New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books: Jurriaan Bendien on Fred Moseley's (ed) Rubin’s Legacy: Essays on Rubin’s Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value and Money marxandphilosophy.org.uk/rev…
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Now online Sean Kazuo Isaacs: Integrating Finance and Social Reproduction: Capital, Labour-Power, and Working-Class Formation brill.com/view/journals/hima…

Integrating Finance and Social Reproduction: Capital, Labour-Power, and Working-Class Formation

Abstract Under neoliberalism, capitalist accumulation has become increasingly dependent on finance, including the financialisation of social reproduction. The centrality of finance to the reproduct...

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Now online Daniel McLoughlin: The Origins of Neoliberal Authoritarianism. Hall and Jessop on the Crisis of Social Democracy and the Rise of Thatcher brill.com/view/journals/hima…

The Origins of Neoliberal Authoritarianism

Abstract This essay intervenes in contemporary debates around neoliberalism and its relationship to both authoritarianism and social democracy. It does so by reconstructing the debate on Thatcherism...

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Now online (open access) Ehrenfried Galander and Axel Rüdiger: Structure and Method of the Critique of Political Economy. On the Debate over Marx’s Structural Plan – Part One brill.com/view/journals/hima…

Structure and Method of the Critique of Political Economy

Abstract With the initial publication of his main economic work in 1859, Marx formulated his programme for an analysis of the bourgeois economy in the following order: capital, landed property, wage...

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Now online Anthony F. Peressini: Racialised Gradients of Human Value and Marx’s Working Day, Today brill.com/view/journals/hima…

Racialised Gradients of Human Value and Marx’s Working Day, Today

Abstract This paper reconsiders the ‘working day’ discussion in chapter ten of Capital and how it centres two parameters in the generation and appropriation of surplus value. The first parameter is...

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New online Tobias Ertl: The Conquest of the Observing Machines historicalmaterialism.org/th…

The Conquest of the Observing Machines - Historical Materialism

For anyone interested in the study of left-wing culture in the Weimar Republic – and indeed the communist workers’ movement of the interwar years more generally – 'La Révolution suspendue' by...

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New online Clayton Black: Right-Hand Man or Biggest Mistake? Åsmund Egge’s Grigory Zinoviev historicalmaterialism.org/ri…

Right-Hand Man or Biggest Mistake? Åsmund Egge’s Grigory Zinoviev - Historical Materialism

Egge’s monograph advances our understanding of a key figure of the Bolshevik revolution well beyond the caricatures that have too long dominated the historiography. It also makes clear that much work...

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HM Book Series new volume now out! Santiago Roggerone: In the Tracks of Western Marxism. The Adventures of a Concept from Schifrin to Anderson (and Beyond) historicalmaterialism.org/bo…
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