Marxism

Marxism, Poststructuralism and Warfare

Stephen McGlinchey, Rosie Walters and Dana Gold • Dec 5 2023 • Student Features

Marxists believe that war is a tool utilised by capitalists to ensure their power persists, whilst poststructuralists underline the ‘us’ and ‘them’ hypocrisy in warfare debates.

Marxism

Stephen McGlinchey, Rosie Walters and Dana Gold • May 20 2022 • Online resources

Marxists argue that, contrary to the image of global capitalism as a free world, the dominance of the nation-state in the post-Cold War system has led to ordinary people around the globe becoming divided and alienated.

Review – Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism

Raju J. Das • Jan 31 2022 • Features

This handbook offers an informative overview of different types of Marxism, though tends to conflate Marxism with Post-Marxism.

Alienation and Marxism: An Alternative Starting Point for Critical IR Theory 

Faruk Yalvaç • Jan 27 2022 • Articles

When discussing anxiety as the constitutive feature of society, we should be talking about something social and historical, rather than transhistorical and ontological, for a politically relevant approach.

Socialism on the Periphery of Global Capitalism

Caio Bugiato • Nov 6 2020 • Articles

Marx and Engels paved the road to socialism and fought for it. Today, as long as there is a socialist perspective, the possibility for humanity to leave its prehistory is always real.

Review – The Value of Everything

Brianna Nicole Hernandez • May 14 2020 • Features

With an eclectic view on the economy, Mazzucato constructs a complex configuration of value creation beyond the tangible.

Review – Reading the Postwar Future: Textual Turning Points from 1944

Richard Toye • Apr 22 2020 • Features

This edited volume is a project of intellectual history, exploring how key texts from 1944 reflected on and helped shape a different world order.

Review Feature – Perspectives on Eco-Socialism

Hans A Baer • Jul 14 2019 • Features

At a time when it is apparent that green capitalist proposals are insufficient, these two books are welcome additions to the growing literature on eco-socialism.

Student Feature – Theory in Action: Marxism, Migrants and Borders

Maïa Pal • Jun 24 2019 • Student Features

Marxist IR theory challenges the notion of borders by focusing on the injustices capitalism creates.

Interview – Sara Salem

E-International Relations • Jun 24 2019 • Features

Sara Salem explores postcolonial, Marxist and feminist theory, the Egyptian feminist movement, transnational solidarity and the radical roots of intersectionality.

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