The conference will take place against the backdrop of a profound destabilization of global capitalism alongside significant challenges for labour and social movements. Imperialist wars abound and culture has been drawn into the service of empire. Robust theorizations and critical innovations are needed.

Plenary Sessions

Thursday, May 13, 5-7 PM

Global Crisis, Working Class Households and Migrant Labour

With Johanna Brenner, Aziz Choudry and David McNally

Friday, May 14, 5:30-7 PM

Is Marxism a Theodicy?

Lecture by Terry Eagleton, with responses by Crystal Bartolovich and Peter Thomas

Saturday, May 15, 3:30 – 5 PM

Conjoint Plenaries:

1. Historical Materialism and the work of Dorothy Smith
2. Global Justice Struggles Today

Saturday, May 15, 5:30 – 7 PM

Marxism and the Global South: With Vijay Prashad and Kevin Anderson and response by Himani Bannerji

Sunday, May 16, 2-3:30 PM

Capitalism, Race and Colonialism: With Andrea Smith, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch

Location:

Keele campus

York University

4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario

Canada, M3J 1P3

416-736-2100

The ongoing capitalist crisis generated high hopes that the parties and social movements of the Left, both in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, would be re-energized. So far this has not happened. The Left remains fractured and confused, drifting away from its labor base, while the Right seems to have emerged as the stronger or at least the more strident force. The result is that unemployment remains high, wages low, and insecurity grows. In the U.S., the Obama administration negotiates from the center, and concedes more and more to business interests and political conservatives. Can this be turned around? Can the hardships and opportunities generated by the capitalist crisis yet become the trigger for the revival of a transformative Left?

Kevin Anderson will be speaking on panels humanism and Marxism, Marx’s concept of socialism, and the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe.

March 19-21
Pace University, One Pace Plaza
New York, NY 10038

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Marx’s writings have been criticized as Eurocentric and blind to issues of race and nationalism. Anderson’s examination of Marx’s writings, especially those from his often-neglected last decade of life, will show otherwise. They indicate a greater appreciation of the contributions of non-Western societies to world culture, and a more multilinear concept of human development. These texts also show a lively interest in gender relations.

Kevin Anderson teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a participant in the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) publication project, the author of Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism (1995), the co-author of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (2005), and a co-editor of the Rosa Luxemburg Reader (2004).