Ravi Malhotra reviews three new books on neoliberalism and law--Honor Brabazon (ed), Neoliberal Legality; Katharina Pistor, The Code of Capital; and Astra Taylor, Democracy May Not Exist.
Neoliberalism, Human Rights, and the Socialist Imperative — Umut Özsu
Umut Özsu reviews Jessica Whyte's recent book The Morals of the Market.
Socialism as Counter-Pandemic — Mike Davis
Mike Davis on socialism in a time of pandemic.
The Morals of the Market and the Moral of the Story — Paul O’Connell
Paul O'Connell reviews Jessica Whyte's recent book The Morals of the Market.
All Too Relevant: Marx’s Critique of Rights and Neoliberal Human Rights — Eva Nanopoulos
Eva Nanopoulos reviews Jessica Whyte's recent book The Morals of the Market.
Althusser on School Law — David Backer
David Backer on Althusser's understanding of law and formal education.
No Bases, No Superstructures: Against Legal Economism — Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter
Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter on rethinking the "base/superstructure" model.
Uber, Regulatory “Disruption”, and Class Power — Eamonn Gallagher
Eamonn Gallagher on Uber and the politics of "disruption".
Dictatorship of the Proletariat — Dimitrios Kivotidis
Dimitrios Kivotidis on proletarian dictatorship, in the first entry in our joint LF/CLT collaboration on key concepts in the Marxist legal-theoretical tradition.
Rights, Freedoms, Law, Labour, and Industrial Voluntarism: Some Comments — Claire Mummé
Claire Mummé responds to Matthew Dimick and William Clare Roberts on the question of law in labour struggles.
Rights, Freedoms, and the Law: A Reply to Roberts — Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick responds to William Clare Roberts on the question of law in labour struggles.
The Welfare State and the Bourgeois Family-Household — Kirstin Munro
Kirstin Munro on social reproduction under capitalism, particularly the role of the bourgeois family-household, in the sixth contribution to our symposium on neo-Marxist state theory and its contemporary resonance.
On the State Debate Thus Far — Nate Holdren
Nate Holdren on history, climate change, and the relation between state and capital, in the fifth contribution to our symposium on neo-Marxist state theory and its contemporary resonance.
On Legal Rights, Freedom, and the State: A Rejoinder to Dimick — William Clare Roberts
William Clare Roberts responds to Matthew Dimick on the question of law in labour struggles.
Base and Superstructure as Ontology — Matthew Dimick
Matthew Dimick on why the base/superstructure model is still of use, and why it should be understood in ontological, not causal, terms.
Review of Mario Mieli, Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of Homosexual Critique, trans. David Fernbach and Evan Calder Williams (London: Pluto, 2018 [1977]) — Joshua Shaw
Joshua Shaw reviews the new edition of Mario Mieli's 1977 classic, Towards a Gay Communism.
Postcolonial States (Part Two) — Coel Kirkby
Coel Kirkby concludes his two-part post on Mahmood Mamdani, the Dar es Salaam School, and state-formation after decolonization in the fourth contribution to our symposium on neo-Marxist state theory and its contemporary resonance.
Postcolonial States (Part One) — Coel Kirkby
Coel Kirkby commences his two-part post on Mahmood Mamdani, the Dar es Salaam School, and state-formation after decolonization in the fourth contribution to our symposium on neo-Marxist state theory and its contemporary resonance.
Socialist Strategy and the Capitalist Democratic State — Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian
Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian on strategic/tactical questions and the democratic state, in the third contribution to our symposium on neo-Marxist state theory and its contemporary resonance.
Capital and Climate in the Critique of the State — Rob Hunter
Rob Hunter on law, the state, and climate change, in the second contribution to our symposium on neo-Marxist state theory and its contemporary resonance.
Notice of New Publication — Cosmin Cercel’s Towards a Jurisprudence of State Communism
A new book from Cosmin Cercel.
Towards a New State Theory Debate — Chris O’Kane
Chris O'Kane introduces our symposium on neo-Marxist state theory and its contemporary resonance.
Notice of New Publication — A New Translation of Max Adler’s The Marxist Conception of the State
A new translation of Max Adler's classic 1922 treatise on state theory.
We Need a New State Debate (Part Two) — Chris O’Kane
The second part of Chris O'Kane's critical reevaluation of Marxist state theories and debates.
We Need a New State Debate (Part One) — Chris O’Kane
The first part of Chris O'Kane's critical reevaluation of Marxist state theories and debates.
Notice of New Publication — Grietje Baars’ The Corporation, Law, and Capitalism
A new book from Grietje Baars.
The Korean War and the Ontology of Intervention: Chen Tiqiang’s “Who Is Undermining International Law?” (1950) — A Translation by Ryan Mitchell
Ryan Mitchell translates and provides commentary on a key 1950 essay on the Korean War and international law by Chinese socialist jurist Chen Tiqiang.
The Materialist Constitutional Thought of Rosa Luxemburg (Part Three) — Camila Vergara
The third and final part of Camila Vergara's analysis of Luxemburg's materialism in respect of questions of constitutionalism.
The Materialist Constitutional Thought of Rosa Luxemburg (Part Two) — Camila Vergara
The second part of Camila Vergara's analysis of Luxemburg's materialism in respect of questions of constitutionalism.
The Materialist Constitutional Thought of Rosa Luxemburg (Part One) — Camila Vergara
The first part of Camila Vergara's analysis of Luxemburg's materialism in respect of questions of constitutionalism.
