'Plato describes rational inquiry into the structure of reality as carving nature at its joints. One doesn’t have to endorse Plato uncritically in order to be struck by the implausibility of the notion that the beast has no bones.' Rob Hunter on recent debates around the Law and Political Economy Project, Critical Legal Studies, and Marx's critique.
Author: Rob Hunter
Profit raten: On Coronavirus and Crisis — Michael Heinrich
Michael Heinrich on coronavirus and crisis. Translated by Alexander Locascio.
Failed Liberal Internationalism and Global Constitutional Questions — Tarik Kochi
Tarik Kochi on why theories of global constitutionalism may be useful for Marxists.
Call for Papers — Workshop on Marx, Law, and the Administrative State
Call for papers for a workshop on Marx, law, and the administrative state, to be held in Buffalo in June 2021.
The State — Rafael Khachaturian
Rafael Khachaturian on Marxist state theory.
Internationalism, Reconstruction, and Indigenous Futurity — Liam Midzain-Gobin
Liam Midzain-Gobin reviews Nick Estes' history of Indigenous resistance movements.
Why There Are No George Floyds in Cuba — August H. Nimtz
August Nimtz on police powers, in Cuba and the United States.
Security — George Rigakos
George Rigakos on Marxism and the question of security.
Ordoliberalism Out of Order? The Fragile Constitutionality of Greek Austerity (Part Two) — Pavlos Roufos
The second part of Pavlos Roufos' two-part post on ordoliberalism and the political economy of Europe.
Ordoliberalism Out of Order? The Fragile Constitutionality of Greek Austerity (Part One) — Pavlos Roufos
The first part of Pavlos Roufos' two-part post on ordoliberalism and the political economy of Europe.
Expropriation of the Expropriators — Jacob Blumenfeld
Jacob Blumenfeld on the "expropriation of the expropriators", past, present, and future.
The Alienated World of Law: Constitutionality and the Limits of Legal Opposition in Modi’s India — Kailash Srinivasan
Kailash Srinivasan on law and constitutionalism, in and against Modi's India.
More Depth, Less Flatness: Marx’s Negative Ontology of Social Totality — Matthew Dimick and Dom Taylor
Matthew Dimick and Dom Taylor respond to Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter, defending their ontological interpretation of the base/superstructure model.
Human Rights and Neoliberalism in a Time of Pandemic: A Reply — Jessica Whyte
Jessica Whyte concludes our symposium on her recent book The Morals of the Market.
The UK Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: 8 April 2020 — Colin Leys
Colin Leys on the UK response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Neoliberalism, Law, and Its Discontents: Three Recent Interventions — Ravi Malhotra
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.
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