Authoritarian Politics

by Olibro Webmaster | May 6, 2020

“Authoritarian Politics,” presentation at panel on “Dismantling Democracy,” with Jessica Pisano, part of NEH-supported colloquium series chaired by Julia Rothenberg and Laura Cohen, and sponsored by the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough...

New Insights into Marx’s Concept of Transition and of Revolution.

by Olibro Webmaster | Mar 20, 2019

In his final years, 1877-82, Marx studied three non-capitalist agrarian societies in great depth: (1) Russia’s communal villages were increasingly penetrated by capitalist social relations, undermining the older agrarian collectivism, but new revolutionary movements...

[video] New Insights into Marx’s Concept of Transition and of Revolution.

by Olibro Webmaster | Aug 28, 2015

In his final years, 1877-82, Marx studied three non-capitalist agrarian societies in great depth: (1) Russia’s communal villages were increasingly penetrated by capitalist social relations, undermining the older agrarian collectivism, but new revolutionary movements...

[Audio] Marxism Beyond the Metropoles — by Todd Chretien, Wiktor Marzec, Christopher Araujo and Kevin Anderson

by Olibro Webmaster | Jun 15, 2015

Audio of a panel at Historical Materialism 2015 (NYU): Todd Chretien – Up from Indifference: Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism and the Workers Party, 1924-1927 Wiktor Marzec Christopher Araujo – Marx on the Dualism of the Russian Commune Kevin...

[audio] Conversation on the Rise and Fall of Socialist Humanism – with Barbara Epstein, Kevin Anderson, and Sasha Lilley

by Olibro Webmaster | Aug 25, 2014

Socialist humanist ideas were broadly championed by key thinkers in the mid-20th century, like E.P. Thompson, Fanon, Marcuse, and Fromm, but have now disappeared seemingly without a trace. Barbara Epstein and Kevin Anderson explore socialist humanism’s rise and fall,...