Call for papers for a workshop on Marx, law, and the administrative state, to be held in Buffalo in June 2021.
Tag: State theory
The State — Rafael Khachaturian
Rafael Khachaturian on Marxist state theory.
Security — George Rigakos
George Rigakos on Marxism and the question of security.
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.
No Bases, No Superstructures: Against Legal Economism — Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter
Nate Holdren and Rob Hunter on rethinking the "base/superstructure" model.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some Hasty Musings on Matters Legal and Economic — Nate Holdren
Nate Holdren reflects on the relation between the legal and the economic.
Law as Superstructure — Anandha Krishna Raj
Anandha Krishna Raj on Marx, Engels, and the question of base-superstructure relations.
Review of Sidney L. Harring, Policing a Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865–1915, second edition (Chicago: Haymarket, 2017) (Part Two) — Stuart Schrader
The second part of Stuart Schrader's three-part review of Sidney L. Harring's Policing a Class Society.
Engels, Law, and Dialectics — Paul O’Connell
Paul O'Connell on Engels, the dialectic, and law's relative autonomy.
For a Marxist Analysis of the State — Dimitrios Kivotidis
Dimitrios Kivotidis on Marxist state theory.
Poulantzas and the Juridical Constitution of the Subject — Rafael Khachaturian
Rafael Khachaturian on Poulantzas, law, and subject formation.
Marxism and the State: Three Background Notes (Part Three) — Akbar Rasulov
The third part of Akbar Rasulov's three-part post on Marxism, state theory, and international law.
Marxism and the State: Three Background Notes (Part Two) — Akbar Rasulov
The second part of Akbar Rasulov's three-part post on Marxism, state theory, and international law.
Marxism and the State: Three Background Notes (Part One) — Akbar Rasulov
The first part of Akbar Rasulov's three-part post on Marxism, state theory, and international law.
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