For those about to be assessed, Harry Cleaver helps cut throught he must…
To those doing assignments, be it single or collective projects, here’s a reminder to resist the stress and do it for your own reasons. This is another condensed…
Tag: Marxism
Leonid Kolishnikov honours Nguyen Phu Trong
https://en.nhandan.vn/politics/item/10921502-vietnam%E2%80%99s-party-leader-honoured-with-lenin-prize-of-russian-communist-party.html Vietnam’s Party leader honoured with Lenin Prize of Russia…
Don Kalb: Constituent Imagination versus the Law of Value: On David Graeber’s ‘Anthropological Theory of Value’
Image 1: Book Cover. The last two decades in anthropology would have been dramatically less exciting without David Graeber. Given David’s prominent association with the Occupy rebellions and…
Assange and how truth does not set you free
******************** On thursday 9th Dec 2021 the first 15 minutes of my lecture on Media outlined the reasons why the extradition of Julian Assange should be opposed and…
David Graeber LSE Tribute Seminar: Value
‘Value’ is the one central themes that runs throughout and conjoins all of David Graeber’s writings. This week focuses on his first book, whose original title, eventually flipped…
Bad Marxism: Capitalism and Cultural Studies
a book from 2004 – people didn’t get the title that much, but Derrida, Bataille (the best bit is on Bataille – reclaimed for the left). From books4you.…
Abram Lutes: Anatomy of an Autogolpe: On the consolidation of Nayib Bukele’s power in El Salvador
For the first time since El Salvador’s mid-20th century military dictatorship, a single political party dominates both the legislative and executive branches of the government, and by all…
Class – and critique – in Bad Marxism, poking fun.
I was looking something up and stumbled upon a quote of me that I did not recognise – that class ‘does not make much sense’. I am pretty…
Spivak – citizen as agent
If you joined the Handbrick of Marxism book-launch with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak last evening you will have seen her talk on citizens as agents, global Marx, supplementing vanguardism…
Ryazanov
Writing to a friend I fell down the Stalin rabbit-hole. It started off reasonably for a sunday evening, thinking, because of some translation work I am doing, that…
Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom
New paper: Co-research in Vietnam for the anthropology classroom Do Thi Xuan Huong & John Hutnyk 50 free ‘eprints’ for those who want to read it now –…
The Rumour of Marx. Happy May Day.
Emailing a friend today – a Leftist of significant standing, and seven decades – who has found joy in reading Marx after attending a workshop here. She writes:…
A bleeding process with a vengeance
There are few better descriptions of colonial extraction than this one where Marx eviscerates the Brits in India. He was on the case right till the end, in…
The model for teaching at TDTU – in collaboration with Đỗ Thị Xuân Hương and Võ Nguyễn Thiện Phúc
A somewhat random video made to explain a model of teaching for a class on Capital and Anthropology/Mapping at Ton Duc Thang University, Faculty of Social Sciences and…
Marx Trot on again in 2019?
The Marx Trot is going to return in the summer 2019. Stay tuned for details. In the meantime, some old reading (the original posts have comments but…
“learned scribes” – Marx to Kugelman 1868
Marx writes to his publisher-friend to explain, clearly, why it is a critique of political economy: And then the vulgar economist thinks a great discovery has been made…
Rosa now more than ever
Rosa now more than ever Or why Rosa is someone who should be read at this point in time. To be a student of Rosa Luxemburg today is assisted hugely by the…
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ in “Marx at the Movies”, 2014
‘Citizen Marx/Kane’ – Hutnyk This chapter addresses the question of how, today, to start reading that rich book that is Marx’s Capital — of which an immense, even monstrous, accumula…
Multitude redux Empire: wrong way, don’t go back, we should leave too.
People got wishful thinking a lot, and I am always for breaking the borders, but as this can be read from afar, I reckon yes, but the prognosis…
Innovations… Conference 4-5 October 2019, TDTU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Innovations in the Social Sciences and Humanities 4th and 5th of October 2019. Ho Chi Minh City, Socialist republic of Vietnam Welcome to the website for the conference Innovations in…
Protests in Vietnam (guest post)
Guest Post by Sally Mju About the current protest in Vietnam. I support and I do not support! This article is analyzed from the perspective of Karl Marx…
Andreas Malm: In Wilderness is the Liberation of the World
If you have been following Andreas Malm’s work, such as his latest book The Progress of This Storm, you’ll be familiar with his latest project of bringing realism…
What did Friedrich Engels have to say about Australia?
there was a series that Ben and Melitta used to include in Rabelais, along such lines – what did Lenin think of the Labor Party etc., I wish…
De-centrifuedalised or tropicalization: Marx outside the Euro-American Circuits
So, a bit bemused at the appearance of various Marx readers or ‘companions’ filled with US and UK based scholars, mostly, I thought it worth pointing to a…