The Class Strikes Back: Self-Organized Workers' Struggles in the Twenty-First Century. Dario Azzellini, Michael G. Kraft, eds. Brill, NL, 2017. Historical Materialism Book Series 150

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-638
Author(s):  
Robert Ovetz
Keyword(s):  
Historical Materialism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Twenty First Century

Notes from the Editors, November 2018

2018 ◽  
pp. c3-64
Author(s):  
The Editors
Keyword(s):  
Historical Materialism ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Ecological Marxism

buy this issue The twenty-first century has resulted in a vast upsurge of ecological Marxism and ecosocialism more generally, building on the environmental critique of capitalism embedded in classical historical materialism. At the same time, it has also engendered opposing tendencies and approaches concerning how we understand relentless ecological destruction under capitalism. This issue is dedicated to exploring the theoretical advances, schools of thought, and debates on the left in regard to our world's ecological crisis, which threatens the survival of humanity and is inescapable within the present capitalist system of production.

Capital (It Fails Us Now)

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Toscano
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Historical Materialism ◽  
First Century ◽  
Concerted Effort ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

This introduction to Historical Materialism’s mini-symposium on Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century places the three contributions by Husson, Mann and Roberts in the context of an exploration of the link between methodology and politics in Piketty’s economic history of inequality. Touching on the role of time and literature in Piketty’s argument, as well as on his difficulty in accounting for the relations of capital – especially ones originating in colonialism and empire – it approaches Piketty’s book, and its success, in terms of its concerted effort to produce a cognitive mapping of contemporary capitalism that can serve as a prelude to its democratic reform.

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