Historical Materialism Journal

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The Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism reaches its second volume! This selection offers key Marxist concepts, histories of social movements, and debates on culture, politics, and philosophy.

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Marx and Douglass in Their Time The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time By August H. Nimtz and Kyle A. Edwards Leiden: Brill, 2024, 42…

"A brief review cannot do justice to this excellent work of committed scholarship, part of the outstanding Historical Materialism [ @histmat.bsky.social ] book series. ... the book speaks to a much broader, long-term project of political reclamation."

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The Unconscious Spirit of Communism. Kōjin Karatani’s Reconstruction of Marx - Historical Materialism Nadir Lahiji Author: Nadir Lahiji This book is an attempt to introduce Kōjin Karatani and his work to a larger public, placing his reconstruction of Marx at its centre. An expository work that tries t...

Soon to be published: *The Unconscious Spirit of Communism: Kōjin Karatani’s Reconstruction of Marx* by Nadir Lahiji, with a foreword by Agon Hamza (@agonhamza.bsky.social).

Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development of 'Construct 46. Arbutus, Kathleen Kersey for Morris & Co. / Malevich drawing', paint and wallpaper on canvas (2006).
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Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. The cover art is a development of Long Live the New! no. 42, Kazimir Malevich drawing on Morris & Co. design, paint and wallpaper on canvas (2016).
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Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development of 'Long Live the New! no. 43, Kazimir Malevich drawing on Morris & Co. design', paint and wallpaper on canvas, 2016.
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Can the People Overthrow the Regime While the State Remains in Place? On the Central Dilemma of the Arab Uprisings - Historical Materialism The future of the long-term revolutionary process that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and swept across the Arab region hinges on the ability of progressive forces to achieve a counter-hegemony with...

Can the People Overthrow the Regime While the State Remains in Place?
On the Central Dilemma of the Arab Uprisings
@histmat.bsky.social
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Forthcoming Edited Volume: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity In June 2025, the University of Helsinki’s Locating Global Protest (LGP) project team (PI: Kasper Braskén; postdoctoral researchers: Moshumee Dewoo and Shane Little) hosted the conference “Imaginin…

Excited that my chapter on the history of anti-fascism in Croydon will be included in a new volume to be published by
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A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979) - Historical Materialism This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre's renewed engagement with the PCF was neith...

Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.

Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on…

“A central element, for me, of the Marxist theory of alienation is that it starts with labour broadly understood, the idea that people are makers.”

@alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation:
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Jakob Moneta (1914–2012): Jewish Internationalist and Socialist Trade Unionist - Historical Materialism As a representative of a generation of socialists who were politicised in the 1930s either between or beyond Social Democracy and Communism, Jakob Moneta played an important role in the West German tr...

Now online: 'Jakob Moneta (1914–2012): Jewish Internationalist and Socialist Trade Unionist' by John S. Will.

Marx the Good - Historical Materialism A review of Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought and Vanessa Will’s Marx’s Ethical Vision

My review of "Citizen Marx" by @brunoleipold.com and "Marx's Ethical Vision" by @vcwills.bsky.social is out. Good books both. With @histmat.bsky.social

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Our current Call for Abstracts for 2026 MDN events is open until 20 Feb!
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From our archive: Luke Beesley: Extract and abandon? Surplus populations & surplus value in Health Communism
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Dossier: Marx, MEGA and MEGA-Marx - Historical Materialism A special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. Featured articles: Kaan Kangal, Introduction to Dossier ‘Marx, MEGA and MEGA-Marx’ Historical-Critical Dictionary of Mar...

Now online: a special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. With contributions from Kaan Kangal, Roberto Fineschi, Jean Quétier, Michael Schauerte and Thanasis Giouras, as well as a translation of the entry on 'MEGA' from the Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism.

Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development of 'Two Squares, no. 7. El Lissitzky’s ‘About Two Squares’ on William Morris ‘Daisy’ wallpaper', paint and paper on canvas, 2008. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2780-b...

Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...

A piece by @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and me, up on @histmat.bsky.social site

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Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is developed from Construct 38, William Morris, Fruit / Alexander Rodchenko, Hard Currency, wallpaper and paper mounted on linen, 2006. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2802-e...

Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...

Now online: 'Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism' by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber (@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social).

A suite of new Haymarket (@haymarketbooks.org) covers from David Mabb, including Phil Neel's book, for all of you who need a tome to read over the coming year.

Another four of eight rough cover designs, produced for publicity purposes before the final book cover is sent off, due to be published spring 2026 by Haymarket Books for the Historical Materialism Book Series. www.haymarketbooks.org/series_colle...

People Think: On Asad Haider - Historical Materialism For Asad Haider, the fact that people think constitutes the condition of liberation. Yet thinking does not take place in a vacuum. It remains bound to the situations of which it is a part. And these s...

Now online: 'People Think: On Asad Haider' by Ivo Eichhorn and Morten Paul (whom you can follow here @ivoeichhorn.bsky.social and here @mortenpaul.bsky.social).

And yes, you read that correctly. We are planning a Historical Materialism conference in Rio de Janeiro in July this year. More details and the CfP can be found on our website from the link below.

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“I have never, until now, seen lipstick as a comrade”

A review of The Spectral Woman by @ciaracr.bsky.social for @histmat.bsky.social:
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On Zionism, capitalism, and labour: a review of Matan Kaminer’s Capitalist Colonial - Historical Materialism Matan Kaminer, Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture, Stanford University Press, 2024.  Reviewed by Heba Taha As Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continued to ...

Now online: 'On Zionism, Capitalism, and Labour: A Review of Matan Kaminer’s Capitalist Colonial' by Heba Taha.

“Trans Femme Futures argues for a staunch refusal of innocence: the hard work of organizing for liberation requires dirty hands, interdependence, and desires beyond virtuousness”

Trans Femme Futures reviewed for @histmat.bsky.social:
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Final week to submit your proposals for Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár 2026, 'Interregnum here and now: Post-communist collapse, planetary crisis, and emancipatory resolve'
April 16–18, 2026.

“Trans Femme Futures argues for a staunch refusal of innocence: the hard work of organizing for liberation requires dirty hands, interdependence, and desires beyond virtuousness”

Trans Femme Futures reviewed for @histmat.bsky.social:
www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...

Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on…

“Those two things, queer politics and Marxism, were together in my mind but not always reconciled. So, I began having to puzzle the connections together myself”

@alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation:
www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-e...